Improved vapor dispensing
CA 2234646 C · Owner: Clobes, Armin L. · Inventors: Smith, Kevin W.; Schroeder, John A.; Hygema, Terry L.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A vapor-dispensing device having an outer shell (10); a one-piece electric plug heater block (40) having attached electric plug pins (48) the block , being attached to the outer shell such that the block can rotate a predetermined amount around an axis parallel to the plug pins; and a wick (36) in fluid communication with a material to be dispensed and extending into an opening (52) through the block; wherein the opening has a shape defined by the rotation through an internal angle at least equal to the predetermined amount of rotation of a solid geometric shape transverse to the axis and wherein the block has an electric heating element in close proximity to the opening.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed September 26, 1996 and granted November 19, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 26, 2016.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by September 26, 2018.
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