Patent ID: 8950154
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: E02D,E04B

Abstract:
1. A thermal break device minimizing the transfer of heat from a building with a concrete slab floor, the thermal break device comprising: a rigid, hollow conduit fabricated from a synthetic polymeric material; an insulating material completely filling the rigid hollow conduit to produce a rigid, hollow conduit filled with said insulating material, said insulating material comprising a polymeric foam material having a thermal conductivity less than 0.02 W/m·K; and a building with a wall having an entry door in an entry opening in the wall, and having a concrete slab floor extending from within the building and beyond the entry opening in the wall, the rigid, hollow conduit filled with insulating material embedded within the concrete slab floor and extending parallel with the wall having the entry door in the entry opening in the wall and across the entry opening in the wall; whereby the entry door positioned in the entry opening in the wall contacts the rigid, hollow conduit filled with insulating material embedded within the concrete slab floor upon the entry door in the entry opening in the wall closing.