High efficiency, glass-lined, combination space and hot water heater
CA 2249910 A1 · Owner: Giant Factories Inc. · Inventors: Lesage, Claude; Lewis, Brian M.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A combination space and hot water heater is comprised of an inner tank having an outer casing spaced therebout with insulation being interposed between the casing and the inner tank. The inner tank has a glass-lined inner surface and a heater is provided within the inner tank for heating a same volume of water within the inner tank. An anode is provided within the inner tank. A closed water circulating circuit is connected to the inner tank for circulating hot water from the tank through heat exchange means connected in the closed water circulating circuit. Preferably but not exclusively, the heat exchange devices are radiators. The inner tank contains a predetermined same volume of …
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed October 9, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 9, 2018.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 9, 2020.
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