Comfort thermostat

• US 6,206,295 B1
• Filed: 03/04/1999
• Issued: 03/27/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Marvin Lacoste
• Original Assignee: Marvin Lacoste
• Inventors: LaCoste, Marvin
• Primary Examiner(s): WAYNER, WILLIAM E
• Application Number:
  US09/262,375
• Time in Patent Office: 754 Days
• Field of Search: 165/11.1, 165/265, 236/94, 337/360
• US Class Current: 236/94
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 23/1902 characterised by the use of a variable reference value

Abstract

A “designer” thermostat also known as the “comfort-stat” which is mountable on the wall or the like having a first temperature range bar extending from a low point of 70 to a high point of 78, appearing in red, and a second temperature range bar extending from a high point of 78 to a low point of 70, appearing in blue. There would further be included a heat/cool button, and an on/auto/fan button, so that for example, when the thermostat is set on cool, the movable indicator would move along the blue bar between 70 and 78 with a digital read out of the temperature of the room on the face of the comfort stat, and when the thermostat is set on heat, the movable indicator would be set on the read bar between 70 and 78 with a digital read out of the temperature of the room. There would further be provided a mounting means for mounting the comfort stat on the wall with a void space between the thermostat for housing of the control wires between the rear face of the thermostat and the wall.

Claims

1. An improved thermostat, comprising:

a. a housing, having a first face, four side walls, the housing mountable against an upright surface, such as a wall;

b. the face of the housing further comprising a temperature lever, extendable across a portion of the thermostat face between temperature ranges of 70 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit;

c. a cool band and a heat band on the face of the housing so that when the heating or cooling system is in operation, the cooling system temperature would be set according to a blue band, and the heating system temperature would be set according to a red band; and

d. means for indicating temperature as a digital readout.

2. The thermostat in claim 1, further comprising a recessed area between a rear wall of the thermostat and the upright surface for housing excess wiring extending from the wall.

3. The thermostat in claim 1, wherein the means for indicating temperature would be positioned on the face of the thermostat as a the digital readout.

4. An improved thermostat, comprising:

a. a housing, having a first face, four side walls, the housing mountable against an upright surface, such as a wall;

b. the face of the housing further comprising a temperature lever, extendable across a portion of the thermostat face between temperature ranges no less that 70 and no greater than 80 degrees fahrenheit;

c. a cool band and a heat band on the face of the housing so that when the heating or cooling system is in operation, the cooling system temperature would be set according to a blue band, and the heating system temperature would be set according to a red band;

d. a recessed area between a rear wall of the thermostat and the upright surface for housing excess wiring extending from the wall; and

e. means for indicating temperature as a digital readout.