Floor vent assembly
AssigneeGen-X Engineering Solutions, Inc.
InventorsTroy Isaacson, Kyle Isaacson, Michael LaFrance
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Abstract
A floor vent assembly with slots for airflow having a structure and interaction between an air vent and a slider with an actuator extending through the air vent to permit manual sliding of the slider in the floor vent assembly to selectively open/restrict the air vent for airflow. The floor vent assembly may also have an internal structural plate with corresponding slots. The user simply manually moves the actuator and thus the slider within the floor vent assembly where respective slots align or are offset to allow or restrict the flow of air through the floor vent assembly.
Claims8
A floor vent assembly comprising:
- an air vent having an aperture and a plurality of slots between vent ribs, and on a back side, a lip with a series of elongated tracks;
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- a slider having an actuator and a plurality of slider slots with slider ribs between certain slider slots, the slider further having guides along outer rims;
- each guide aligned with corresponding elongated tracks to allow the slider to slide relative to the air vent,
- wherein the elongated tracks include a recess along the lip wherein a tab of the slider can slide along the recess and wherein the actuator passes through the aperture of the air vent for sliding the slider from a first position where the slots of the air vent align with the slider slots to allow the flow of air to a second position where the slider ribs align with the slots of the air vent to restrict the flow of air through the floor vent assembly.
A floor vent assembly comprising:
- an air vent having an aperture and a plurality of slots between vent ribs, and on a back side, a lip with a series of elongated tracks;
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- a slider having an actuator and a plurality of slider slots with slider ribs between certain slider slots, the slider further having guides along outer rims;
- each guide aligned with corresponding elongated tracks to allow the slider to slide relative to the air vent
- wherein the series of elongated tracks include slider track apertures that accommodate the guides of the slider and the slider track apertures each have a detent on each distal end of each slider track aperture and wherein the actuator passes through the aperture of the air vent for sliding the slider from a first position where the slots of the air vent align with the slider slots to allow the flow of air to a second position where the slider ribs align with the slots of the air vent to restrict the flow of air through the floor vent assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.