Abstract: Heating a room in a structure with a fireplace includes feeding combustible gas to a burner of a combustion assembly of the fireplace to create heat and flames with hot exhaust air passing out of a combustion chamber of the fireplace through an exhaust duct and into an exhaust air conduit of a secondary heat exchanger and out of the structure.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 14, 2011
Date of Patent:
March 17, 2015
Assignee:
Hearth & Home Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Joshua H. Halverson, John G. Pecka, Bruno J. Miller
Abstract: Heating a room in a structure with a fireplace includes feeding combustible gas to a burner of a combustion assembly of the fireplace to create heat and flames with hot exhaust air passing out of a combustion chamber of the fireplace through an exhaust duct and into an exhaust air conduit of a secondary heat exchanger and out of the structure.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 14, 2011
Publication date:
April 18, 2013
Applicant:
Hearth & Home Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Joshua H. Halverson, John G. Pecka, Bruno J. Miller
Abstract: A vent assembly includes a base, an intake duct, an exhaust duct, and a cap assembly. The base includes a vertically oriented, outward facing primary surface and defines a duct aperture that extends through the outward facing primary surface. The base includes a metallic material. The intake duct is coupled to the base within the duct aperture, and the exhaust duct is oriented coaxially within the intake duct. An end of the exhaust duct extends distally beyond an end of the intake duct. The cap assembly includes first, second, and third members, wherein at least one of the first, second and third members includes a non-metallic material. The first member includes an intake aperture aligned with the duct aperture of the base and is sized to substantially cover the outward facing primary surface. The second member includes an exhaust aperture sized to receive the exhaust duct.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 28, 2005
Publication date:
May 3, 2007
Applicant:
Hearth & Home Technologies Inc.
Inventors:
David Lyons, Richard Berg, Ted Schroeder, Todd Weir, Christopher Schrauth
Abstract: A method and system for simulating a living space capable of receiving a heating appliance. The method includes loading onto a computer system or a computer readable medium data representing at least a portion of the living space. The method further includes selecting from a data storage device or the computer readable medium data representing at least one heating appliance from a group of heating appliance simulations. The method also includes combining the data representing the at least one heating appliance with the data representing the at least a portion of the living space to generate data representing a simulated living space with the at least one heating appliance received therein.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 28, 2005
Publication date:
March 29, 2007
Applicant:
Hearth & Home Technologies, Inc.
Inventors:
Eric Hawkinson, Bradley Determan, Randy Wendolek, Thomas Bachinski