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Multiple impeller fan for a shrouded floor drying fan

US7238006B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateSep 27, 2004
Grant dateJul 3, 2007
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Expiry dateJun 11, 2025

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF26B21/001
  • WIPO fieldEngines, pumps, turbines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A method and apparatus for drying floors and carpets using a double impeller fan for generating a pressurized air stream within a vertical cylindrical fan shroud that is spaced two to five inches away from the floor on a set of legs such that an opening is formed between the shroud and the floor. The air stream is directed along the cylindrical shroud vertically toward the floor. At least a peripheral portion of the air stream is exhausted from the shroud in a substantially laminar flow at an angle that is inclined from the vertical and is exhausted radially into ambient air as a substantially laminar air stream.

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