Abstract: A gas-heated laundry dryer having a heating device. The heating device includes a gas burner, a valve with a gas nozzle configured to supply primary air for formation of a flame and a tubular heating channel configured to enclose the flame. The tubular heating channel includes an inlet opening configured to receive secondary air as combustion air and an outlet opening configured to receive tertiary air mixable with hot gases of the burner. The outlet opening is connected to a process air duct of the laundry dryer. An annular baffle member is disposed in the outlet opening of the heating channel and configured to center, by the secondary and tertiary air, at least one of the flame and a hot air stream in the channel.

Abstract: This deer lure with scent dispenser has an outer casing with an interior plenum, a lower end and an upper end, with air inlet holes adjacent the lower end, a base adapted to fit into the lower end and extend into the plenum, and a scent dispenser assembly with a reservoir adapted to fit into the upper end with its exterior extending into the plenum. The base is adapted to serve as a pedestal for a candle and to hold the candle above the air inlet holes. The base also allows air for the candle to enter the plenum from the air inlet holes and reach a flame of the candle. The reservoir has an interior in communication with air exterior to the casing for holding a volatile scented liquid, and the invention allows hot gases produced by the candle to escape from the plenum into air exterior to the plenum around and/or through the reservoir, volatilizing the scented liquid in the reservoir.

Abstract: An upright heating burner having a heatsink device includes an upright stand, an upright tube, a burner, an air guide cylinder, and a heatsink device. The heatsink device is mounted on a top of the air guide cylinder and includes an annular support seat, a shaft, and a fan unit. Thus, the fan unit is driven by the heated air to rotate on the shaft automatically, so as to diffuse the heated air outward wholly and completely, thereby efficiently achieving the heatsink effect.

Abstract: A portable barbecue-type cooking apparatus for use in combination with a gas operated cook stove includes a housing defining a cooking chamber, the housing being defined by a bottom wall, side walls, end walls and a cover for closing the cooking chamber. Chimneys extend upwardly from the bottom wall of the housing whereby water can be placed in the heating chamber around the chimneys. A fan is rotatably mounted on each of the chimneys, so that when the housing is placed over the fans to rotate for deflecting grease and other food produced liquids away from the chimneys and into the water.

Abstract: A portable sportsman furnace wherein a unitary housing is arranged for selective securement to an external propane fuel supply, wherein an internal valving permits preselected fuel flow and heating of the burner assembly within the housing to a predetermined level of fuel consumption, and wherein a baffle assembly within the housing permits even distribution of heating throughout the housing, such that louvered vent openings permit ease and consistent distribution of heat throughout a surrounding area relative to the furnace of the invention.

Abstract: A space heating unit is designed for use in a recreational vehicle and particularly to operate in conjunction with a cooking stove wherein the heating unit has a housing which is placed over a pair of burners and air flow ducts extend across the housing above the burners to draw air from the room upwardly through the ducts and across the housing in order to heat the air and discharge it into the room. The upper end of the housing communicates with an exhaust duct and has a baffle to regulate the rate of air flow through the housing.

Abstract: A portable heat dispensing unit is provided with retractable ducts, and an internal heat chamber, having suitable in line apertures in the heater container vessel and heat chamber to accept a source of heat from from inserted burners. The heat is then fan blown through a retractable duct fastened to the heat chamber which can be directed to deliver the heat where desired. Other accessory components are: A thermometer to monitor the heat intensity: A second retractable duct surrounding the heat duct to insulate it from cold winds, and also for use as a return air duct when heat is applied to an enclosed space such as a tent or room. An opening is provided into the container vessel between the two ducts to allow the return air to be recirculated by a fan which moves the air through the heat chamber. The burner insertion holes in the container vessel also act as auxiliary air openings providing make up air access for burner requirements.

Abstract: A radiant-type heater is disclosed which has a deflection plate in an upper part of a casing, a burner in a lower part of the casing, and a heating element formed of a thin metal sheet. The heating element is suspended from the deflection plate downwardly towards the burner.

Abstract: A heat exchanger mainly for use with gas fired hot air blowers or convectors wherein the media taking part in the heat exchange are separated by a wall, a duct enclosed by the wall and constituting the flow area for the media and having a cross-sectional area diminishing in the direction of the flow and having detrusions on both sides of the wall.

Abstract: An heating drum for use in a radiant heater having a burner for the combustion of fuel, which comprises an axially corrugated barrel made of steel material and forming therein a generally cylindrical inner chamber and a plurality of annular chambers communicated with the cylindrical inner chamber and alternating with concave exterior spaces over the length thereof. The cylindrical inner chamber is defined by furrow-defining walls while each of said annular chambers is defined by a ridge-defining wall and opposedly inclined first and second annular side walls on respective sides of the associated ridge-defining wall. The barrel has one end closed and the other end adapted to seat over the burner and also has first circumferential rows of combustion gas outlet perforations, the combustion gas outlet perforations of each row being defined in at least one of the first and second annular side walls for each annular chamber.

Abstract: An apparatus for both improving the heat distribution throughout a room from a portable kerosene heater and for collecting undesirable emissions resulting from the burning of the kerosene, includes a base adapted to be mounted on the top of the heater, the base supporting a vertically extending shaft on which is mounted a heat-driven fan formed of either paper or metal, and a disposable disk mounted a spaced distance above the fan on the same shaft, the disk serving as a collector for the undesirable emissions. When the device is placed on an operating kerosene heater, the rising hot air and gases from the heater cause the fan to rotate, which in turn causes emissions from the burning fuel to move upwardly in a more or less cylindrical path. As the products of combustion move upwardly, certain emissions therein such as soot, oily vapors, etc. deposit or condense onto the surface of the spinner and disposable disk.

Abstract: This invention relates to method and apparatus used as an addition to any existing heating system--burning any fuel--for heat recovery from stacks and chimneys. It uses a suitable heat exchanger mounted at the apex of such stacks, by virtue of which location no natural draft is lost. The system includes a circulating pump, a thermostat, an expansion bottle, a condensate trough, a cap and dome which jointly serve to act as unloaders to protect the system liquid from being boiled off. Both sensible heat and the latent heats of moisture in the fuel and in the vapor produced as a combustion product, can be scrubbed out. The use is to effect economies and to reduce environmental contamination wherever fuels are fired.

Abstract: An apparatus for reclaiming heat from the discharge gas from a combustion fuel heating unit, which has: inlet and outlet sections; an expansion section whose circumference gradually increases in the direction of flow, thereby providing an increased area for heat transfer; flow splitter plates which lie within and act in conjunction with the expansion section wall to form flow compartments, which flow splitter plates and expansion section wall have a slope, with respect to the centroidal axis of the flow compartment not exceeding 0.1228, which geometry prevents a separation of the flow from the enclosing walls, thereby increasing heat transfer and maintaining the drafting function; and a reduction section which converges the flow to the outlet section.

Abstract: Micro electrochemical cells which utilize an intimate mixture of active and assive metals are reacted with seawater for producing heat and hydrogen gas for use as a heat source, energy source, or buoyancy generator for use in remote areas.