With Air Current Inducing Jet Patents (Class 454/22)
  • Patent number: 9140461
    Abstract: A radon exhaust system comprising an exhaust side with a vent housing, a diagnostic bypass filter apparatus providing observation windows, a removable observation window, internal ice and object filter, internal ribbon flow indicators, internal water gutter with drain spout, an exhaust fan and a suction side coupled together to form a conduit through which gaseous fluid may be conveyed. The diagnostic bypass filter apparatus provides an enlarged elliptical air passage bulge and angular bend configuration having three observation windows, a fourth removable observation window, an internal ice and object filter, ribbon flow indicators, and an internal water gutter with drain spout for providing protection of the exhaust fan from falling ice, water and objects and visual inspection for flow in the exhaust system and access to the filter for cleaning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Inventor: Wayne E. Bailey
  • Patent number: 9080779
    Abstract: A roof vent comprising several components. First there is a base plate for contacting an existing recipient surface, such as a building roof. Next there is a lower vent section coupled to the base plate. Lastly, there is an upper vent section coupled to the upper extent of the lower vent section. The roof vent has a flapper and a exclusion screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Inventor: Jonathan Patrick Leonard
  • Publication number: 20030008609
    Abstract: A wind-powered ventilator includes a pressurization conduit hood mounted on the periphery of a fan-less automatic directional type ventilator, or a worm gear type ventilator. The conduit hood is arranged to pressurize atmospheric wind, however feeble and minimal, and conduct the wind to produce a pressurization effect, causing a pressurized wind moment to pass directionally through the ventilator, there by achieving enhanced drafting efficiency without the intervention of artificial power sources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2002
    Publication date: January 9, 2003
    Inventor: Tai-Her Yang
  • Patent number: 5993309
    Abstract: A chimney exhaust system for facilitating or creating an upward draft in a chimney flue, operating on what is referred to as "Bernoulli's Principle" comprises a housing unit having a tubular cross member and a tubular depending member, both members having an inlet and an outlet. The outlet of the depending member intersects the cross member at an intermediate position between the inlet and outlet of the cross member. The depending member is mounted to a chimney flue at its inlet and acts as an extension thereof. A fan is attached to the housing unit proximate the cross member to generate air flow through the cross member and across the opening of the depending member's outlet. The air flow generated through the cross member creates an upward draft of the air in the chimney flue and the depending member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Inventors: Chris Howell, Michael A. Scofield