Automatic thermostatic control system for heater and evaporative cooler

• US 4,673,028 A
• Filed: 08/19/1985
• Issued: 06/16/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Bruce C. Meland
• Original Assignee: Bruce C. Meland
• Inventors: Meland, Bruce C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Davis, Jr., Albert W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ford, John K.
• Application Number:
  US06/766,543
• Time in Patent Office: 666 Days
• Field of Search: 62/171, 62/176.4, 236/44 R, 236/44 B, 236/68 B, 165/19, 165/26, 165/27, 165/60
• US Class Current: 165/256
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/30 for purposes related to the operation of the system, e.g. for safety or monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/46 Improving electric energy efficiency or saving
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/76 by means responsive to temperature, e.g. bimetal springs
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/77 by controlling the speed of ventilators
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 11/88 Electrical aspects, e.g. circuits
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 2110/10 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 23/1912 whose output amplitude can take more than two discrete values
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 23/22 the sensing element being a thermocouple

Abstract

An automatic thermostatic control system for a heater and an evaporative cooler which turns the cooler on only when needed, which automatically switches the blower of the cooler between low and high speeds as required so as to maintain essentially constant temperature, and which provides automatic change-over from a cooling to a heating condition.

Claims

1. An automatic control system for an evaporative cooler and an electrically-controlled heater, said cooler including an electrically driven water pump, and an electrically driven blower having a high speed winding and a low speed winding, said control system comprising;

first, second, third and fourth relays, each having a winding, and each of the relays having a common terminal and normally open contacts, and the second of the relays further having normally closed contacts, the normally open contacts of the first relay being connected to the common terminal of the second relay and the normally open and normally closed contacts of the second relay being connected respectively to the high speed and low speed winding of the blower, and the normally open contacts of the third relay being connected to the water pump; and

thermostatic control means connected to the windings of the four relays for causing the first and third relays to close their normally open contacts when ambient temperature reaches a pre-set threshold, for causing the second relay to open its normally closed contacts and close its normally open contacts when ambient temperature exceeds the pre-set threshold by a predetermined amount, and for automatically causing the fourth relay to close its normally open contacts and to activate the heater when ambient temperature falls below a pre-set threshold.

2. The automatic control system defined in claim 1, in which said heater is a gas heater controlled by an electrically operated valve, and in which the normally open contacts of the fourth relay, when closed, complete an electric circuit to the electrically operated valve.