Patent Application
20210080110
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The disclosure relates to heater devices and more particularly pertains to a new heater device for heating a room with propane fuel.
The prior art relates to heater devices.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a fuel tank that contains liquid propane. A supply hose is fluidly coupled to the fuel tank for receiving gaseous propane from the liquid propane. A heater is provided and the heater is positionable in a room in a building. The supply hose is fluidly coupled to the heater thereby facilitating the heater to receive the gaseous propane that gaseous propaned from the liquid propane. In this way the heater can burn the gaseous propane for heating the room in the building. Additionally, the heater has an exhaust duct for venting combustion gases outwardly from the heater.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A heater 22 is provided and the heater 22 is positionable in a room in a building. The supply hose 16 is fluidly coupled thereto thereby facilitating the heater 22 to receive the gaseous propane that has evaporated from the liquid propane. In this way the heater 22 can burn the gaseous propane for heating the room in the building. Additionally, the heater 22 facilitates the room to be heated when neither natural gas heat nor electric heat are available.
The heater 22 comprises a housing 24 that has a front wall 26 and a top wall 28. The front wall 26 has a front opening 30 extending into an interior of the housing 24. The front wall 26 has a plurality of intake vents 32 each extending into the interior of the housing 24 to pass air into the housing 24. Each of the intake vents 32 is positioned beneath the front opening 30. The front wall 26 has a plurality of exhaust vents 34 each extending into the interior of the housing 24 to pass air outwardly from the housing 24. The plurality of exhaust vents 34 is positioned above the front opening 30. The top wall 28 has an intake opening 36 extending into the interior of the housing 24 and the top wall 28 has an exhaust opening 38 extending into the interior of the housing 24.
A window 40 is coupled to the front wall 26 of the housing 24 and the window 40 is positioned over the front opening 30. The window 40 may be a window approved for use with an open flame, such as would be found on an oven door or the like. A heat box 42 is positioned within the housing 24. The heat box 42 has a forward side 44, the forward side 44 is open and the forward side 44 is aligned with the window 40. The heat box 42 has an intake 46 extending upwardly through the intake opening 36 in the top wall 28 of the housing 24. The intake 46 is open to pass air into the heat box 42 to facilitate combustion within the heat box 42. Moreover, the heat box 42 is comprised of a thermally conductive material such that the heat box 42 is in thermal communication with the interior of the housing 24.
A burner 48 is coupled to the heat box 42 and the burner 48 has an inlet 50. The second end 20 of the supply hose 16 is fluidly coupled to the inlet 50 thereby faciltiating the burner 48 to burn the gaseous propane from the liquid propane in the fuel tank 12. The burner 48 heats the heat box 42 when the burner 48 burns the gaseous propane. In this way the heat box 42 heats the interior of the housing 24 when the heat box 42 is heated thereby facilitating the heater 22 to heat the room. The air that passes into the housing 24 through each of the intake vents 32 is heated, and subsequently passes outwardly through the exhaust vents 34 for heating the room. The burner 48 may include an electronic ignitor for lighting the burner 48.
An exhaust duct 52 is coupled to the top wall 28 of the housing 24. The exhaust duct 52 extends through the exhaust opening 38 in the top wall 28 of the housing 24. Additionally, the exhaust duct 52 is in fluid communication with the heat box 42. In this way the exhaust duct 52 can ventilate combustion gases from the heat box 42. A back wall 54 of the housing 24 may have an access opening 56 extending into the interior of the housing 24. A cover 58 may be removably coupled to the back wall 54 to cover to access opening 56.
In use, the heater 22 is brought into the room when neither natural gas heat nor electric heat is available in the room. The supply hose 16 is fluidly coupled to the outlet 14 of the fuel tank 12 to direct the gaseous propane from the liquid propane into the burner 48. The burner 48 burns the gaseous propane in the heat box 42 and subsequently heats the heat box 42. In this way the heat box 42 heats the air within the housing 24 for heating the room. Additionally, the exhaust duct 52 can be routed to ventilate the combustion gasses through a window 40 or to any desired location.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
