Air ventilation control system
OwnerArthur C. Deaninventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to those devices for enabling and disabling heating and cooling equipment and providing supplemental ventilation to an enclosure. An air intake unit is ducted to a central heating and cooling installation. The intake fan unit has an outside temperature thermostat associated therewith and which is wired to a control circuit that also monitors temperature in proximity to a thermostat-equipped exhaust fan unit located in an attic or upper crawl space. Sensing devices are used in association with the plurality of thermostats to selectively enable or disable the heating and cooling equipment and to actuate the intake and exhaust fan units, thereby providing ventilation.
Claims4
An apparatus for alternate modes of conditioning the air in an enclosure, comprising:
- a heating and air conditioning unit having a plenum connected to a plurality of ducts discharging into the enclosure,
- an inlet fan having an intake communicating with the ambient air externally of said enclosure, an intake duct joining said intake to said plenum, an exhaust fan disposed in the upper reaches of said enclosure and adapted to discharge air from said enclosure to the outside thereof, first thermostatic control means operable to actuate said heating and air conditioning unit, second thermostatic control means alternately operable to simultaneously actuate both said intake and exhaust fans,
- said second control means including a low temperature sensor disposed exterior of said enclosure and
- a high temperature sensor disposed adjacent said exhaust fan, and manually operable switch means manipulatable to actuate one of said first or second control means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.