B - Operations – Transporting – 64 – D
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
64
D
B64D 15/04 (2006.01) B64F 5/00 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2267872
In a world of modern technology millions of people worldwide travel daily by air to destinations both near and far. In North America, as well as various European locations including the Scandinavian countries, winter weather is both an annual cycle and a challenging threat. Each year dozens of airports throughout the Northern Hemisphere millions of litres of de-icing fluids mainly Glycol of various types, are used in order to de-ice aircraft for safe and successful take-off. This de-icing fluid is very expensive and somewhat less than environmentally friendly. Various airport commissions and environmental groups have on numerous occasions voiced concern regarding de-icing fluid runoffs into the soil and nearby streams and rivers. And eventually even into water tables, etc. For many years aircraft have had their interiors heated before the boarding of passengers via a large hot air duct being run from a portable heater unit of several types and designs. After testing various mechanical possibilities in and around various aircraft at major airports my co-inventor and I, being employees of a major airline, have come up with a rather unique adaptation. An adapter type unit when connected to an existing heater or heaters which were sole designed to supply heat to the interior of parked aircraft. This adapter when connected to the existing heater unit can produce enough heat and hot air to melt frost, ice, or snow from the propellers of an aircraft and at the same time blow it away. This invention in future will find use in de-icing other aircraft surfaces, such as wings, tail, landing gears, fuselages, and thawing frozen jet engines. The main purpose of this apparatus is to successfully reduce the gross use of glycol and other type fluids which can be harmful to the environment.
Chatman Garry B.
Turner Alfred C.
Chatman Garry B.
Turner Alfred C.
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