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US 12,049,785 B2Granted
Window frame ventilator
AssigneeArconic Technologies LLC
InventorPaul Kinsella
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Abstract
A ventilator for a window frame profile, the ventilator having an air intake opening and an air passage opening to ventilate a hollow member of a window frame profile, and a window frame profile system comprising a window frame profile and at least one such ventilator.
Claims14
A ventilator for a window frame profile, the ventilator comprising:
- a housing having a front face, at least one side face, a top face and a bottom face, wherein the front face is provided with an air intake opening located in an area of the front face toward the bottom face, and the front face is configured to face an exterior of the window frame profile,
- wherein the air intake opening is defined by a forward-protruding rim on the front face such that remaining portions of the front face are recessed,
- wherein the side face is provided with an air passage opening located in an area of the side face toward the top face, and
- wherein the air passage opening is alignable with an opening defined in a hollow side member of the window frame profile and dimensioned and configured to allow a passage of air through the opening defined in the hollow side member.
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A window frame system comprising:
- a window frame profile having at least one hollow side member comprising an opening;
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- at least one ventilator according to any preceding claim,
- wherein the at least one ventilator is engaged with the at least one hollow side member such that the air passage opening is aligned with and/or engaged with the hollow member opening to allow passage of air therethrough, and
- wherein the air intake opening is defined by a forward-protruding rim on the front face such that remaining portions of the front face are recessed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.