Patent ID: 6021843
Filing Date: 2000-02-08
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
A vehicle in combination with a device for melting snow and ice in the wheel wells of a motor vehicle, comprising:an on-off switch located inside the passenger compartment of said vehicle;means connecting said on-off switch to a vacuum switch for actuating a valve and to the intake manifold on an engine of said vehicle;tubing connected to the radiator of said vehicle, said tubing having mounted thereon said valve, vacuum switch for actuating said value, and a first line splitter which divides said tubing into two feeder lines, one of which extends to the front and rear wheel wells on the left side of said vehicle and the other of which extends to the front and rear wheel wells on the right side of said vehicle, each of said feeder lies then becoming, by forming a continuous loop, a return line from its respective wheel wells to a second line splitter which reunites said two return lines into one piece of tubing which connects to said radiator.