Patent ID: 7942144

Claim:
A heating apparatus comprising: a housing unit having a base and at least nine openings; at least three heating chambers for generating heat; an actuating unit coupled to the housing unit and adapted to provide power to the heating apparatus; a shaft, disposed in a vertical direction, operably coupled to the actuating unit and to the at least three heating chambers; and at least two blade units in at least three heating chambers coupled to the shaft for circulating a heat transport fluid around the at least three heating chambers; and at least four wall mounts in each of the at least three heating chambers for securing the heating chambers to the housing unit, wherein each heating chamber comprises: a stationary disc member; a rotating disc member; and a medium disposed between the stationary disc member and the rotating disc member, and wherein thermal energy is generated by friction among the stationary disc member, the rotating disc member, and the medium, wherein the housing unit is filled with the heat transport fluid, the heat transport fluid being different from the medium of the heating chamber, and wherein the at least three heating chambers gradually increase in size as function of distance from the actuating unit, and wherein the distance between two adjacent heating chambers increases or decreases as a function of a distance from the actuating unit.