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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2020
Rinnai America Corporation, Peachtree City, GA (US);
Ansley Houston, Peachtree City, GA (US);
Parth Patel, Peachtree City, GA (US);
Rohan Scafe, Peachtree City, GA (US);
Rinnai America Corporation, Peachtree City, GA (US);
Abstract
A water heater system includes a water heater rack system with a plurality of vertically stacked tankless water heaters and a water heater storage tank and provides the ability to install a water heater in environments where horizontally oriented heater rack systems would not fit. The tankless water heaters comprise a bifurcated vent arrangement with separate intake and exhaust vents. Accordingly, vent pipes of diameters of two (2) inches or less may be used in comparison to coaxial vent arrangements which may have diameters of three inches or more. The smaller vent pipe diameter allows a plurality of water heaters to be stacked, one above the other, such that the water heater rack system has a maximum height of 76 inches or less. This vertical orientation may allow tankless water heaters to be installed in an environment where a horizontally configured plurality of tankless water heaters would not fit.