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Harold R Johnson

Richard Ferguson

Steven E Lombardi

Harold F McKnight

A floor mounted de-watering spin chamber is connected with a kitchen disposer-grinder for de-watering and collecting ground food scraps that are suitable for garden composts. The spin chamber contains a perforated rotary spin basket and has a rigid lid with a rigid inlet tube insertable in a rigid body so that only one latch is necessary to hold the lid securely on the spin chamber. A diverter valve operated by a manual knob controls the discharge of water and solid material from the disposer-grinder selectively through the spin chamber or a drainpipe and the knob also controls a switch for an electric motor driving the spin basket. The drain pipe may also receive water and solid material from a second sink which is not equipped with a disposer-grinder and which material is not treated by the present apparatus, a baffle in a pipe connection fitting preventing such material from backing up into the spin chamber.

Kitchen composter

An auxiliary heating/cooling system controller is connected in series between the household thermostat and the furnace burner valve and compressor. The controller includes a timing control which is responsive to a preset time interval valve and the plenum temperature to cycle the furnace burner on and off in order to moderate the temperature of the furnace heat exchanger, thus improving furnace efficiency. Upon installation the controller is programmed with a digital valve corresponding to the delay between a call for heat from the household thermostat and the initiation of the furnace fan. This value is then used to set a timer in the controller which synchronizes the initiation of the duty cycle control of the burner to the start of the fan at the beginning of a heating cycle, and to control the cycle time of the burner. A plenum thermostat monitors the temperature of the air produced by the furnace and if the air exceeds a predetermined limit the OFF time of the burner is increased. The cooling system control provides for cycling the compressor on and off in accordance with a programmed digital valve. The fan is kept activated to circulate dry, cool air when the compressor is in the off time of its cycle.

Energy saving furnace controller

An underground duct is connected to other ductwork and controls associated with a building for automatically selectively passing outdoor air through the underground duct to the normally outdoor coils of a heat pump, recirculating air through the underground duct to the heat pump outdoor coils and back through the underground duct, and passing outdoor air directly to the heat pump outdoor coils and also passing outdoor air through the underground duct to recondition it, in order to achieve optimum heat pump efficiency for selectively heating and cooling the building. Alternatively, air from the underground duct or from outdoors is selectively passed directly into the building for optimum cooling thereof while a dehumidifier is used to remove latent heat from the air; and other heat sources may be used with direct recirculation of air through the building and addition of a portion of tempered air from the underground duct for slightly pressurizing the building interior with heated air.

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Monroe, NC, United States of America

Harold R Johnson