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A system for cooling, heating and fire-protecting an enclosure or dwelling, consisting of six principal entities acting in cooperation. The first is an expansive system of wide, shallow ducting installed just outboard and against the innermost wall layers of the peripheral walls, ceiling and at time

A system for cooling, heating and fire-protecting an enclosure or dwelling, consisting of six principal entities acting in cooperation. The first is an expansive system of wide, shallow ducting installed just outboard and against the innermost wall layers of the peripheral walls, ceiling and at times, the floor, thermally intimate but physically isolated from the interior volume of the enclosure. The second is an evaporatively-cooled air source, supplying the duct system, which cools the innermost wall layers and in turn, the interior volume, by radiation and convection. The third entity, being an encompassing layer of efficient insulation, just outboard of the ducting and within the enclosure, biasing the cooling and heating action to the interior volume. The fourth is a network of hot-water circulating tubes, lying within, or adjacent to said cooling ducts, and against the innermost wall layer, or inboard plate thereof. The fifth entity utilizes the in-place source of water in the peripheral walls and ceiling, for incorporation of heat-activated fire a suppression units therein, spraying into both, rooms and the duct system, as well. The last (sixth) entity provides for humidity control, convection, and `sensible` cooling of infiltration air by a limited size, integral air-conditioner and independent air circulation fans within the interior volume of the enclosure or dwelling.

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[ I claim:] [1.] A system for protecting the interior volume of an enclosure against adverse thermal exchange with the exterior environment enclosure and destruction by fire, comprising of:(a). A floor plane structure, free of adverse thermal exchange, with said exterior environment, supporting;(b).

[ I claim:] [1.] A system for protecting the interior volume of an enclosure against adverse thermal exchange with the exterior environment enclosure and destruction by fire, comprising of:(a). A floor plane structure, free of adverse thermal exchange, with said exterior environment, supporting;(b). Three, or more, end-connected, upstanding peripheral walls, collectively bearing a top, cover structure;(c). Said walls and cover being of double-layer construction, an innermost an outermost, wherein, periodic elongate stiffening members maintain sufficient separation of said layers, one from the other, forming a space;(d). Extensive system of water-resistant enclosed channels or ducts, ensconced within or forming an elongate core volume of said innermost layers of said peripheral wall and top cover structure, thereby separating said innermost layer into an outboard plate and an inboard plate, surrounding said core volumes;(e). Means for introducing outside air to said duct system separated from said interior volume and means for exhausting said air to said exterior environment;(f). Means for supplying and directing atomized water in a substantially perpendicular direction to said air introduction means, within a plenum for the purpose of evaporatively cooling said air, said plenum being insulated externally thereupon and extending at substantially constant cross section beyond said introduction of water for a distance greater than the nominal diameter of said plenum;(g). Means for automatic and manual control of said water introduction; means control means being from complete shut-off to a condition of excess water suspension in said air flow;(h). An insulation layer encompassing said wall and top cover duct system, outboard thereof and inboard of said enclosure's outermost layers, for suppressing exterior thermal transfer to or from said duct system and contents therein;(i). Means for interior heating and fire suppression;(j). Limited dehumidifying and cooling means with an independent interior air circulation means.