Portable floor air duct

• US 4,967,646 A
• Filed: 06/05/1989
• Issued: 11/06/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: VIMY Ridge Group Limited
• Original Assignee: Ward-Brown Industries Limited
• Inventors: Brown, Frank P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Joyce, Harold
• Application Number:
  US07/361,235
• Time in Patent Office: 519 Days
• Field of Search: 98/40.19, 98/101, 98/103, 98/105, 98/108, 98/109, 98/114, 98/DIG. 7, 422/124
• US Class Current: 454/289
• CPC Class Codes: F24D 5/00 Hot-air central heating systems district heating systems F24D10/00; central heating systems using heat accumulated in storage masses F24D11/00; air conditioning F24F; Exhaust gas central heating systems
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 13/0227 using parts of the building, e.g. air ducts inside the floor, walls or ceiling of a building

Abstract

An air deflector for delecting air exiting from a residential floor vent to a location remote therefrom, comprising a first element having an inverted u-shaped cross section formed by a central wall panel and a pair of side walls depending from opposite longitudinal edges thereof, an end wall panel depending from the central wall panel and joining the side walls to form an inlet end, a second element having an inverted u-shaped cross section formed from a central wall and a pair of side walls depending from opposite longitudinal edges thereof, the second element being dimensioned telescopingly to engage with the first element with the central wall panels in abutment so that one end of second element extends beyond the first element to form an outlet end, the first and second elements being dimensioned so that when telescopingly engaged, the side and end walls of the first element and the side walls of the second element have substantially coplanar distal edges extending along the length thereof to lie against a floor surface surrounding the floor vent, the first element having a width sufficient to permit the inlet end to be aligned with the floor vent, the first and second elements in their telescoping arrangment together with the floor surface forming a duct through which air may be transferred from the vent along a duct to the outlet end.

Claims

1. An air deflector for deflecting air exiting from a residential floor vent to a location remote therefrom, comprising:

a first element having an inverted u-shaped cross section formed by a central wall panel and a pair of side walls depending from opposite longitudinal edges thereof;

an end wall pane depending from said central wall panel and joining said side walls to form an inlet end;

a second element having an inverted u-shaped cross section formed from a central wall and a pair of side walls depending from opposite longitudinal edges thereof, said second element being dimensioned to engage in telescoping fashion with said first element with said central walls in abutment so that one end of said second element extends beyond said first element to form an outlet end;

the side and end walls of said first element terminate at a first flange, a portion of which is arranged to lie flat on a floor surface surrounding said floor vent;

said portion extending the perimeter of said first element;

each of the side walls of said second element terminate at a second flange which is arranged to lie flat against said floor surface;

said second flange being arranged to be nested with said first flange when said first and second elements are telescopingly engaged, said first and second flanges constituting means to minimize air loss between said flanges and said floor surface;

each of the first flanges has an inner web, said portion is an outer web which is stepped from said inner web toward said floor surface;

said second flange being dimensioned to lie in nested relationship with said inner and outer webs.

2. An air deflector as defined in claim 1 wherein the second element has a pair of portions at an angle relative to one another to form a bend in said duct to permit air exiting from the floor vent to be directed around an obstacle.

3. An air deflector as defined in claim 1 further comprising a means for deodorizing air emerging form the outlet end including carrying means for carrying a deodorizing compound, retention means for retaining said carrying means at one location in the duct.

4. An air deflector as defined in claim 3 wherein said carrying means includes a card, the retaining means includes a slot near the outlet end of the duct though which the card is passed to extend into the duct.

5. An air deflector as defined in claim 1 further comprising an anchor wall portion depending from the central wall of said first element to be received between a pair of adjacent vanes in said vent to inhibit inadvertent movement of the deflector relative thereto.

6. An air deflector as defined in claim 1 further comprising a panel for interposition between said floor surface and said distal edges.