Radiant floor wall and ceiling hydronic heating and/or cooling systems, using modular panels hinged together in sets of panels, staggering the positions of panels in the sets so that sets are interlocking

摘要

In a hydronic radiant heating and/or cooling system modular panels each of a metal plate or sheet on a board or boards providing a slot into which tubing is inserted and held against the plate in intimate thermal contact therewith, so that the plate is heated/cooled by conduction of heat between the water in the tubing and the plate, the improvement in which two or more of said panels are hinged together, side by side to provide a hinged set of panels so that two or more of sets of hinged panels unfolded at their hinges and arranged end to end on a floor, wall or ceiling provide elongated spaces into which said tubing is inserted and held against said radiation plate a finished floor, wall or ceiling covering can be installed thereon and said system operated to heat or cool said room, the improvement wherein the panels of a set are arranged in a regular staggered relationship so that such sets unfolded and arranged end to end abutting each other interlock.