Patent ID: 7570875
Filing Date: 2009-08-04
Classification: F26B

Abstract:
1. A handheld heating tool comprising: a housing having a handle; a pair of polished elliptical reflectors mounted in the housing, the major axes of the two ellipses intersecting in a focal region within the housing, the focal region including one focus of each ellipse; a pair of incandescent bulbs, each bulb being mounted with a filament at the other focus of one of the elliptical reflectors; a trigger switch adjacent the handle for sending electric current to the bulbs, and a controller for controlling the magnitude of current applied to the bulbs; a transverse channel in a nose of the housing for receiving an article to be heated in the focal region, wherein the channel is transverse to the major axes of the pair of elliptical reflectors; and a blower directing cooling air toward the reflectors and exiting the housing through the channel.