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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7388176 | Heating device with thin heating boards A heating device includes a case having a plurality of openings and a plurality of slits are defined in bars of the case so that a plurality of heating boards are engaged with the slits of the case at an equal distance. A power control device is connected to the cas... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7149416 | Clothes dryer heater with air flow increasing device adjacent the heating element A heater for a washer-dryer includes a duct in which heating elements for heating the air flowing through the duct are disposed. A device for increasing the airflow in the area of a heating element is provided in the duct to improve the transportation of heat away f... | 12/12/2006 |
| 6965731 | Convectional radial electric warmer A conventional radial electric warmer includes an upper and a lower support base, plural heaters, a protective net, and an upper, a front and a rear cover. The upper and the lower support base respectively have a fixing frame for the heaters, and plural holes for ho... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6718651 | Portable hair dryer The invention relates to a portable, cordless, hair dryer/blower that has an elongated hollow body portion with a mass center line and including therein a blower motor and a heating element and having a posterior end and an anterior end. A handle portion has a longi... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6449870 | Portable hair dryer The invention relates to a portable, cordless, hair dryer/blower that has an elongated hollow body portion with a mass center line and including therein a blower motor and a heating element and having a posterior end and an anterior end. A handle portion ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 6038782 | Blow dryer having airflow control means In one embodiment a blow dryer includes a barrel having an opening. A deflector, having an aperture, positioned within or substantially within the barrel. The hand-held blow dryer can be utilized in at least a first or open mode in which air flow is direc... | 03/21/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5555637 | Drying apparatus A drying apparatus such as a hand-held hair dryer comprising a housing including a nozzle and containing an air outlet and a fan assembly contained within the housing for generating a flow of air from the outlet. The apparatus further includes a flow guid... | 09/17/1996 |
| 5463203 | Vehicle heater A vehicle heater adapted to be plugged into a conventional car cigarette lighter. The vehicle heater includes an adapter for plugging the invention into a cigarette lighter, a switch for turning the heater on, a clock for setting a timer to turn the heate... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5243682 | Hair dryer with an isolated heater element A wall mounted hair dryer, having a stationary heated air supply, a portable dryer head and a flexible hose connecting the two, is provided with an isolated heater element which controls the temperature gradient profile of the discharge conduit of the air... | 09/07/1993 |
| 5235668 | Portable electric space heater with air cooled outer wall surfaces An electric heater with thermal self-circulation of the room-air which is heated by means of electric resistors (7) placed in the core (6) of the heater. The heater is made of three or four casing elements (1) at the corners of which vertical gables (2) f... | 08/10/1993 |
| 5042267 | Combination evaporator and radiant heater defrost means A combination evaporator and radiant heater defrost means including a heater housing which prevents defrost water from impinging directly on the heater while enhancing defrosting of the evaporator.... | 08/27/1991 |
| 4467179 | Portable electric baseboard heater having an integral handle A portable electric baseboard heater includes a unitary structural back plate having a central vertical portion bounded by an integral lower triangular closed box-like structure having a downwardly sloping forward surface and an integral upper triangular ... | 08/21/1984 |
| 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 |
| 4350871 | Horizontal passively cooled heater A quartz heater, an elongated, rectilinear heating element which lies in a horizontal position in front of a reflector in an improved housing designed to enable the outer surface of the housing to remain cool during operation without the aid of an active ... | 09/21/1982 |
| 4309593 | Electric heater which reduces the chance of electrical shock An electric heater construction which significantly reduced the possibility of electrical shock to a user thereof. This electric heater includes an outer casing with an open front, a protective grille mounted over the open front of the outer casing, a ref... | 01/05/1982 |
| 4110600 | Thermostatically controlled plural heat output portable electric space heater A portable electric space heater has a case that surrounds separate electric heating elements, and the case has separated upper and lower airflow openings. A control switch allows manual selection of two different operating cycles, respectively suited for... | 08/29/1978 |
