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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8107798 | Console electric heater with plenum A portable electric heater possessing characteristics similar to a portable electric oil filled heater absent the use oil and its associated manufacturing and environmental problems. The device includes an electric heater, a rotatable plenum and an external housing ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 7639928 | 360° portable electric space heater A portable air heating system for use in all areas is disclosed. The portable air heating system provides a stream heated air for use in heating the interior of a structure, in 360°, multidirection, or a direction. Directional heating is accomplished through exhaus... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7357620 | Dual use cooling fan and air circulator A fan assembly that can be used as a cooling fan or an air circulator. The fan assembly can provide the cooling and air circulation functions simultaneously or separately. The intensity of the cooling and/or air circulation can be individually controlled and directe... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7326883 | Low noise fan heater A housing and a base formed integrally with the housing or attached thereto. An array of louvres is attached to or formed integrally with the housing. An electric motor-driven fan is located within the housing and blows air toward the louvres. An electric heating el... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7203416 | Ventilating and heating apparatus with heater shielded by tapered discharge duct The invention provides a ventilating and heating apparatus for installation in a building structure. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a main housing in which is located a ventilating fan assembly and a heater fan assembly having a heater and a discharge d... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7190887 | Portable thermal-stratifying space heater and powerplant package A portable room heater is provided comprising an upright enclosure defining an inlet at a lower end of the enclosure, an outlet at an upper end of the enclosure, and a passageway fluidly connecting the inlet and the outlet. The portable room heater further comprises... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7158716 | Portable pedestal electric heater A portable pedestal electric heater apparatus for providing a heated exhaust air stream at an elevation above a support surface comprises a tower electric heater and a support riser for supporting the tower electric heater at an elevation above a support surface. Th... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7156616 | Combinative standing fan A combinative standing fan includes a vertical shaft fan, a first, and a second tubular cover. The first and the second tubular cover respectively consist of a front half cover and a rear half cove. The front half covers of the two tubular covers are provided with p... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7143766 | Temperature controlling device for aerosol drug delivery A portable air temperature controlling device useful for warming air surrounding an aerosolized drug formulation. Warming the air of an aerosol makes it possible to reduce the diameter of aerosol particles produced by an aerosol generation device. Additionally, warm... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7088913 | Baseboard/upright heater assembly A multi-purpose electric heater that can be configured as a baseboard heater or an upright heater is provided. The heater preferably includes a pair of elongate housings that are coupled to a base in a manner that allows them to be moved between horizontal and uprig... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7046918 | Space heater with pretreated heat exchanger A space heater with a linear source of infrared radiant energy in heat exchange relationship with a heat exchanger formed of copper or aluminum material. The copper is pretreated to soften the copper and partially blacken the surface thereof. The aluminum is anodize... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6945868 | Outdoor fan system A camouflaged outdoor fan system includes a housing, a fan inserted into the housing, and a camouflaged lid removably connected to the housing. The housing is buried in the ground, or in alternative embodiment, mounted to the underside of a deck, the fan is inserted... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6842581 | Body drier with interconnected cylindrical air blower housings Body Drier with a plurality of cylindrical housings, each housing retaining a heating coil, a fan blade, an electric fan motor, a fan bracket and a fan grill. Each cylindrical fan housing assembly is attached to the one above it by means of standard electrical conne... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6539170 | Kind of economical household ventilator A kind of economical household ventilator consists of the housing and blower. On the housing there are air inlets and exits. There are several air exits with different directions distributed all over the housing. The air inlets are located on the top or/a... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6466737 | Portable electric space heater A method and apparatus for conditioning air includes conditioning units that are removably attached together. The conditioning units may be separated from each other and individually perform conditioning functions, such as air moving, heating, humidifying... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6321034 | Pivotable heater A heater comprising two or more heating units which are rotatably attached to each other about a common axis. Preferably, each heating unit is rotatably attached to the next successive heating unit along a vertical axis by a flanged coupling. Alternativel... | 11/20/2001 |
| 6130991 | Convection space heater with interconnected housing segments using hair dryer as heated air source An electric hair dryer is connected to a portable housing having a plurality of angularly adjustable housing segments. The air passes through the segments and out spaced air outlet openings formed in the housing segments.... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6049655 | Dashboard mounted fan apparatus with pivotally mounted fans A fan apparatus 10 for use on the dashboard 101 of a vehicle 100 includes a housing member 20 having a fixed Louver element 22 for introducing ambient air into the interior of the housing member 20. The air will be heated by a heating coil member 30 and t... | 04/11/2000 |
| 5884007 | Vehicular convection heater A vehicular heater is provided including a box mounted within a vehicle. Also included is a heater assembly situated within the box and adapted to generate heat upon the receipt of power. A plurality of exhaust fans are each rotatably mounted to the box f... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5844202 | Portable automatic windshield defroster A portable automatic windshield defroster having a housing, including a housing top and a housing bottom. The housing further includes a housing left and a housing right. The housing left is securely attached to a proximal end of the housing left egress a... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5790748 | Forced air baseboard heater with pivotably mounted fans A heater for heating and dispensing air within a room. the inventive device includes a heater having a heating coil or radiator located within a housing. Fan assemblies are mounted to end panels and/or front panels of the housing to force air through the ... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5721804 | Y-shaped portable electric space heater with value to reduce pressure within the boiler A space heater employs a generally Y-shaped housing. A boiler within the housing contains a working fluid at subatmospheric pressure when at ambient temperature. This reduces the boiling point of working fluid. A series of heat exchangers are mounted in t... | 02/24/1998 |
| 5671321 | Air heater gun for joint compound with fan-shaped attachment A heat gun quickly and efficiently dries joint compound. The heat gun includes an outer shroud defining an airflow chamber and a fan which drives airflow therethrough. A motor provides drive to the fan while a plurality of heating coils disposed within th... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5655055 | Omnidirectional space heater having adjustable, arcuate baffles A portable forced air space heater having a three hundred sixty degree peripheral dispersion pattern. The heater has a tubular housing and a fan forcing air past a heating element upwardly within the housing. The air encounters a conical deflector which r... | 08/05/1997 |
| 5495888 | Heater control A heater control for controlling operation of a heater switch (12) in an evaporative cooler having an alternative heater mode in which a heater element (40) is energized and part of the air flow is blanketed by a shutter (37) controlled by a slide (24) or... | 03/05/1996 |
| 5473824 | Rotating outlet for hair dryers A rotating outlet for hair dryers is provided causing air exiting from the hair dryer to travel in a circular pattern. A tubular member fits the outlet end of the hair dryer, and has a spider across its outlet end which carries a centrally located pivot. ... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5471763 | Nozzle attachment for a hair dryer A nozzle attachment for a hair dryer has a cylindrical element for connecting a flow-directing member to the nozzle of a hair dryer. The flow-directing member deflects the air coming from the hair dryer by a certain acute angle. The flow-directing member ... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5245692 | Portable hemispheric electric space heater with circumferential filtered warm air discharge An electric space heater includes a hemispherical enclosure in which is positioned a blower arranged to draw air in through air inlets proximate the pole of the hemisphere for discharge through a plurality of air discharge outlets around the circumference... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5157757 | Hand held hair dryer with selectively positionable baffle for varying the distribution of air from the dryer A handheld electrically powered hair dryer includes a main outlet nozzle and secondary air outlets for producing a diffuse distribution of air. A baffle arrangement is moveable between first and second positions to selectively deflect some or all of the a... | 10/20/1992 |
| 5092518 | Hot-air type heater Provided is a hot-air type heater including a heat generating means such as a burner heater from which hot air is produced and blown out the heater into a living room so as to warm up the inside of the room with a uniform temperature distribution even amo... | 03/03/1992 |
| 4965432 | Portable vehicle heater A device for temporary positioning in the interior of a vehicle for warming and defrosting through one or more resistance electric heater/blowers controlled by a timer connected to an exterior AC power source with an optional ground fault interrupter circ... | 10/23/1990 |
| 4782601 | Foot drying assembly A foot drying assembly of the type designed to be positioned on a supporting surface such as the ground or floor and including a support platform having an apertured grid structure dimensioned and configured for placement of both feet simultaneously there... | 11/08/1988 |
| 4518847 | Electrically-powered portable space heater A portable electrically-powered space heater includes an electrically-powered boiler generating steam at subatmospheric pressure from a mixture of water and ethylene glycol that is circulated through a closed loop heat exchanger, portions of which compris... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4384189 | Convection radiator The present invention relates to a novel convection radiator. A convection radiator comprising a system of air circulation by natural convection and a system of air circulation by forced convection including an air convection means, such as a turbine, each of ... | 05/17/1983 |
| 4103146 | Methods and apparatus for ductlessly circulating and selectively supplementally heating large volumes of air in industrial facilities An apparatus for ductlessly circulating large volumes of air in industrial facilities and the like includes an upstanding structure which defines a vertically extending chamber. Openings are provided in lower and upper portions of the structure and commun... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4034204 | Electric heater for warming the interior of a car An electric heater for warming the interior of cars, trucks and the like includes a relatively short cylindrical casing having a base end plate, an air intake end plate and a circumferential side wall. A motor driven fan is provided in the casing and arra... | 07/05/1977 |
