Electric heating – Heating devices – Combined with diverse-type art device
Patent
1977-04-13
1977-12-20
Albritton, C. L.
Electric heating
Heating devices
Combined with diverse-type art device
5366, H05B 300
Patent
active
040643875
ABSTRACT:
A remote control unit for an electric heater comprising a box-like housing with an interior partition defining a circuit board chamber and a control knob chamber. The circuit board chamber includes means to support a circuit board with a current control component having a freely projecting rotary operating shaft. The housing has openings through which electric cords, extending from a power source to the circuit board, from the circuit board to a related heater, and from the circuit board to a remote temperature sensing device, sealingly extend; a portion of the housing defining the control knob chamber is formed with a depression with a window opening; the partition is provided with an opening carrying a seal through which the shaft extends; a translucent control knob is arranged in the control knob chamber on said shaft and has a portion visibly and manually engageable in said window opening; the partition has a transparent pane at a side of the knob opposite said window and adjacent the circuit board, the circuit board is provided with a light-emitting component adjacent the window to illuminate said knob; the housing is provided with key-hole slots communicating with the control knob chamber to accommodate screw fasteners on a supporting surface whereby the unit can be releasably mounted on said surface.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2403824 (1946-07-01), Newell
patent: 3585356 (1971-06-01), Hall
patent: 3790753 (1974-02-01), Miller
patent: 3819905 (1974-06-01), Trostler
patent: 3982098 (1976-09-01), Trostler
Albritton C. L.
Maxwell Georges A.
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