Patent ID: 8695943
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: F24D,H02G,Y02B

Abstract:
1. A tool for installing a heating wire in a floor substrate of the type having receiving means opened toward a surface thereof to receive a heating wire and installed on a floor, the tool comprising: a support with a handle portion to be manually handled by a user; a contact surface related to the support, the contact surface adapted to contact the floor or floor substrate during displacement of the tool along the floor substrate, the contact surface being part of a wheel rotatably supported by the support, and having at least one row of spaced-apart fingers projecting radially from the wheel for penetrating engagement of the fingers in the receiving means of the floor substrate when rolling along the floor substrate along wire installation paths; and an interface between the handle portion and a heating wire, the interface being adapted to contact the heating wire such that a given pressure applied on the handle portion by the user during the displacement of the tool along the floor substrate is converted by the interface into local engagement of the heating wire in at least one of the receiving means.