Heat (or cold) storage apparatus

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR USE IN HEATING OR COOLING EQUIPMENT COMPRISING A STORAGE BIN HAVING WALLS, A TOP AND A BOTTOM, INSULATION MEANS FOR A MAJOR PORTION OF THE WALLS AND TOP AND LOCATED WITH RESPECT TO SAID WALLS AND TOP SO AS TO REDUCE ESCAPE OF HEAT FROM OR ENTRANCE OF HEAT INTO THE STORAGE BIN, THE BIN CONTAINING LIQUID RESERVOIR MEANS OF LESSER CAPACITY THAN THE STORAGE BIN THUS PROVIDING A SPACE SUBSTANTIALLY SURROUNDING THE LIQUID RESERVOIR MEANS INSIDE OF THE STORAGE BIN, MEANS FOR SELECTIVELY FLOWING A HEATED OR COOLED LIQUID INTO AND OUT FROM SAID LIQUID RESERVOIR MEANS, A NON-LIQUID HEAT OR "COLD" STORAGE MATERIAL WHICH IS NON-LIQUID AT LOW TEMPERATURES, LOCATED IN THE SPACE AND ADJACENT TO THE LIQUID RESERVOIR MEANS, THE LIQUID RESERVOIR MEANS COMPRISING A MATERIAL CAPABLE OF TRANSFERRING HEAT INTO OR OUT OF THE LIQUID RESERVOIR WHEREBY A HEAT TRANSFER WILL TAKE PLACE WHENEVER A TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE EXISTS BETWEEN THE LIQUID AND NONLIQUID MATERIAL, DUCTWORK FOR BRINGING AIR INTO THE STORAGE BIN FOR CIRCULATION THROUGH THE NON-LIQUID STORAGE MATERIAL, THE AIR BEING HEATED IN THE BIN WHEN THE APPARATUS INSIDE A WARMER THAN THE AIR, AND THE AIR BEING COOLED IN THE BIN WHEN THE APPARATUS INSIDE IS COOLER THAN THE AIR, AND DUCTWORK THROUGH WHICH THE HEATED OR COOLED AIR LEAVES FROM THE STORAGE BIN.