US 11,933,503 B2
System and method for providing conditioned air at a loading dock
Joseph Markert, East Syracuse, NY (US); Donald L Metz, Kirkville, NY (US); Kyle J. Berean, Chittenango, NY (US); Gregory J. Duffy, Baldwinsville, NY (US); and Kristian P. Garrow, Cortland, NY (US)
Assigned to DL Manufacturing Inc, North Syracuse, NY (US)
Filed by DL Manufacturing Inc., North Syracuse, NY (US)
Filed on Apr. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/724,458.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/176,377, filed on Apr. 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0333789 A1, Oct. 20, 2022
Int. Cl. F24F 1/0011 (2019.01); B60H 1/00 (2006.01); F24F 1/0022 (2019.01); F24F 5/00 (2006.01); F24F 11/76 (2018.01)
CPC F24F 1/0011 (2013.01) [B60H 1/00014 (2013.01); F24F 1/0022 (2013.01); F24F 5/001 (2013.01); F24F 11/76 (2018.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A facility-based dual-purpose conditioned air blower system, comprising:
a heat exchange unit comprising an ambient air inlet, heat exchange elements, and a conditioned air outlet;
a diverter apparatus, comprising:
a diverter inlet fluidly coupled to the conditioned air outlet of the heat exchange unit;
a first diverter outlet to the facility; and
a second diverter outlet;
the diverter apparatus moveable between a first position wherein the first diverter outlet is closed and the second diverter outlet is open, and a second position wherein the first diverter outlet is open and the second diverter outlet is closed;
and;
a centrifugal blower comprising a blower inlet fluidly coupled to the second diverter outlet of the diverter apparatus, and a blower outlet positioned to ventilate a trailer interior with conditioned air from the conditioned air outlet of the heat exchange unit.