Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids – Apparatus – With means to treat gas or vapor
Patent
1988-02-19
1990-04-10
Bennet, Henry A.
Drying and gas or vapor contact with solids
Apparatus
With means to treat gas or vapor
34 48, 34 54, 34 55, 34202, F26B 1310
Patent
active
049148338
ABSTRACT:
An automatic hand dryer contains a heating element and a motor which drives a squirrel cage fan. The fan exhausts air past the heating element to a downwardly-directed outlet. A base or mounting plate is adapted for flush mounting to a wall. The axis of the fan is perpendicular to the base plate and wall to which the dryer is attached. A control or sensing circuit emits signals to a detection zone beneath the outlet and monitors the zone for reflected signals indicative of a user's presence. The circuit operates to energize and deenergize the power circuit to the fan motor and heating element. Upon detection for a predetermined period, the circuit energizes the power circuit. The control circuit deenergizes the power circuit upon interruption of the reflected signals for a predetermined period, or after a predetermined maximum time period of continuous detection. Under the latter condition, the stimulus reflecting the emitted signals must be removed from the detection zone to reactivate the control circuitry. Any incremental interruption in the reflected signal which does not exceed the period of permitted interruption, restarts the commencement of the timing of the maximum period of continuous detection.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3643346 (1972-02-01), Lester
Pilolla Joseph J.
Wilson John R.
501 Sloan Valve Company
Bennet Henry A.
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