Heating device for use with aerosol containers

• US 3,338,476 A
• Filed: 10/24/1965
• Issued: 08/29/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Marcoux, Leo
• Original Assignee: Marcoux, Leo
• Inventors: Marcoux, Leo
• Application Number:
  US04/504,944
• Time in Patent Office: 674 Days
• US Class Current: 222/146.3
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 83/72 with heating or cooling devices , e.g. heat-exchangers
• CPC Class Codes: H05B 3/141 Conductive ceramics, e.g. metal oxides, metal carbides, barium titanate, ferrites, zirconia, vitrous compounds

Claims

1. A HEATER-DISPENSER DEVICE USABLE WITH AEROSOL CONTAINERS COMPRISING:

(A) A SUPPORT WITH A PASSAGEWAY FORMED THEREIN;

SAID PASSAGEWAY HAVING AN INGRESS AND AN EGRESS;

(B) A SOLID STATE HEATER ELEMENT HAVING A STEEP SLOPE PTC TEMPERATURE-RESISTIVITY CURVED IN CLOSE THERMAL CONNECTED TO SAID PASSAGEWAY AND MOUNTED BY SAID SUPPORT;

AND (C) TERMINAL MEANS ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TO SPACED PORTIONS OF SAID HEATER ELEMENT, SAID INGRESS ADAPTED TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE OUTLET PORT OF SAID AEROSOL CONTAINER WHEREBY A VOLTAGE APPLIED TO SAID TERMINAL CAUSES THE HEATER ELEMENT TO GENERATE HEAT AND APPROACH A THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM WITH HEAT LOSS THEREBY HEATING A FLUID MEDIUM PASSING THROUGH SAID PASSAGEWAY.