Electric water heater with improved insulation structure
CA 2113132 C · Owner: Powell, Timothy E. · Inventors: Hanning, David M.; Powell, Timothy E.
Overview
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The external jacket structure of an electric water heater defines with the water storage tank portion thereof a hollow insulation space that horizontally circumscribes and extends across the top end of the tank. A fiberglass foam stop block member is pressed between the tank and jacket and has a cutout area through which an immersion heating element end connector is exposed to a first jacket sidewall opening normally covered by a removable access panel. A control panel mounted externally on the jacket above the first jacket sidewall opening has a bottom interior portion that downwardly overlaps a top portion of the cutout area and communicates therewith through a second jacket opening. An …
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- Filed January 10, 1994 and granted August 19, 1997. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 10, 2014.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 10, 2016.
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