User-operated air-flow enhancing device for improving heat distribution from an existing baseboard radiator and associated method
US7789129B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 11, 2008 |
| Grant date | Sep 7, 2010 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 5, 2028 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02B30/00
- WIPO fieldThermal processes and apparatus
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A user-operated air-flow regulating device includes a radiator enhancer and an enhancer extension situated adjacent to existing radiator fins of an existing baseboard radiator and oriented at an end-to-end pattern. The device further includes a mechanism for directing and displacing ambient air along a first travel path into respective cavities of the radiator enhancer and the enhancer extension. The enhancer extension includes an elongated fan and a coupling attached to one end thereof. Such a coupling is removably conjoined to a portion of the ambient air directing and displacing mechanism such that the ambient air is separately directed along the first travel path and thereafter displaced along the second travel path in each of the radiator enhancer and enhancer extension respectively. The user-operated air-flow regulating device further includes a mechanism for channeling the ambient air along a third travel path leading obliquely away from the second travel path.
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