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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 1989

Filed:

Jul. 27, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:

Mason G Ide, Gorham, ME (US);

Noel L Lawrence, London, CA;

Lee Prager, Raymond, ME (US);

Assignee:

GTE Products Corporation, Stamford, CT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B / ; H05B / ; F24H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
219370 ; 219376 ; 219382 ; 338 / ;
Abstract

An electrically powered forced air heater includes six triangular PTC heating elements co-planarly disposed within a circular shroud with a apex of each element being disposed adjacent a common central point and the sides of the six PTC heating elements which are opposite the aforesaid apexes forming a hexagon. The area collectively occupied by the six PTC heating elements is greater than 78% of the cross sectional area of the circular shroud. The PTC heating elements are provided with a multiplicity of air flow holes therethrough and an electric fan is arranged to force air through the holes without interference with the rotational component of the fan-forced air vortex before the fan forced air strikes the PTC heating elements.


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