Portable heating system
OwnerPeter Nelson Stockwellinventor
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Abstract
A portable heating system includes a plenum chamber forming a base. The plenum chamber has a plurality of side walls and defines an upper opening. The side walls also define a plurality of side openings, each configured for attachment to an elongate flexible duct. A heating unit is coupled to the plenum and has an air intake opening for drawing air into the heating unit and an air vent opening for blowing warm air out of the heating unit, into the upper opening of the plenum chamber and out through the ducts. The ducts can be located throughout a structure to provide heating in various remote locations from the heating unit. A frame assembly is coupled to the plenum chamber and includes a handle for grasping by a user and a pair of wheels to allow the heating system to be moved.
Claims20
A portable heating system, comprising;
- a plenum chamber forming a base, the plenum chamber formed from a plurality of side walls depending from a bottom panel and defining an upper opening, the plurality of side walls defining a plurality of side openings, each side opening configured for attachment to an elongate flexible duct;
- a heating unit coupled to the plenum having an air intake opening for drawing air into the heating unit and an air vent opening for blowing warm air out of the heating unit and into the upper opening of the plenum chamber;
- a frame assembly coupled to the plenum chamber comprising a handle for grasping by a user;
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- a pair of wheels rotatably coupled to the frame at a lower end thereof proximate a back end of the plenum chamber, whereby grasping the handle and tilting the frame assembly upon the wheels allows the user to maneuver the frame assembly and the heating unit with the wheels.
A method of heating a building having a number of interconnected rooms utilizing a portable heating system, comprising;
- providing a heating system comprising:
- a plenum chamber forming a base, the plenum chamber formed from a plurality of side walls depending from a bottom panel and defining an upper opening, the plurality of side walls defining a plurality of side openings, each side opening configured for attachment to an elongate flexible duct;
- a heating unit coupled to the plenum having an air intake opening for drawing air into the heating unit and an air vent opening for blowing warm air out of the heating unit and into the upper opening of the plenum chamber;
- a frame assembly coupled to the plenum chamber comprising a handle for grasping by a user;
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- a pair of wheels rotatably coupled to the frame at a lower end thereof proximate a back end of the plenum chamber, whereby grasping the handle and tilting the frame assembly upon the wheels allows the user to maneuver the frame assembly and the heating unit with the wheels;
- placing the heating system within a building to be heated having a plurality of interconnected rooms;
- connecting the heating unit to a source of electricity;
- coupling a plurality of elongate flexible ducts to a plurality of the plurality of side openings;
- extending a free end of each of the plurality of elongate flexible ducts into one of the plurality of rooms;
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- turning on the heating unit to heat each of the plurality of rooms containing the free end of the plurality of flexible ducts.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.