Rolling door guide area heating method and system
AssigneeOverhead Door Corporation
InventorSree Lakshmi Kanuri
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Abstract
A method for heating a door guide area includes: channeling a flow of heated air in a longitudinal first direction in a first conduit; channeling the flow of heated air in a longitudinal second direction different than the first direction in a second conduit; providing heated air to the second and first conduits by routing the heated air directly from a heater laterally across the first conduit to the second conduit; transferring heat from the flow of heated air in the second conduit to a heated space outside of the first and second conduits; and configuring a side portion of a roll-up door to be in the heated space when the roll-up door is in a closed position.
Claims9
A method for heating a door guide area comprising:
- channeling a flow of heated air in a longitudinal first direction in a first conduit;
- channeling the flow of heated air in a longitudinal second direction different than the first direction in a second conduit;
- providing the heated air to the second and first conduits by routing the heated air directly from a heater laterally across the first conduit to the second conduit;
- transferring heat from the flow of heated air in the second conduit to a heated space outside of the first and second conduits;
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- configuring a side portion of a roll-up door to be in the heated space when the roll-up door is in a closed position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.