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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2011
Yung-ming Tai, Tao-Yuan, TW;
Edwin Ho, Irvine, CA (US);
Yung-Ming Tai, Tao-Yuan, TW;
Edwin Ho, Irvine, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A portable air blowing appliance has a housing retaining a blower adapted when energized to create an airflow through and from the housing, and a heating element adapted when energized to impart heat to the airflow. A movable deflector selectively steers the airflow either though or not through the heating element. In the exemplary embodiment shown, the blower is, in combination, a motor-driven centrifugal blower rotatable about a blower axis to create the airflow, and a scroll surrounding the blower wheel and adapted to direct the airflow from the blower wheel forwardly from the housing. In this exemplary embodiment, the deflector is movable about a pivot axis perpendicular to the blower axis between a heating position wherein the airflow is steered through the heating element and a cooling position where the airflow is steered not through the heating element.