JOHN F JENKINS
Plumbers in Smithville, NJ

3948246, Apr 6, 1976

Jul 17, 1974

5/489170

John F. Jenkins - Absecon NJ

A61F 706

126204

The invention concerns heaters, particularly for sports benches and more especially for the benches on which substitute players of the team sit during games. In the preferred form, a self-contained heater such as a combustion operated construction heater with blower produces the heat behind the bench, and the heat is conducted through a conduit into the space beneath the bench, and then through a T-conduit in either direction to points from which it is distributed. The space beneath the bench confines the heat on the front, back, sides and bottom. Heat is distributed through openings in the top of the bench toward the back, and also through openings in the front of the bench, which may be at the top of the front of the bench and at the bottom of the bench. In a less preferred embodiment, heaters may be in spaces continuous with the bench. An option available is that a space behind the bench is provided in which the toes can be inserted, and flexible tubes are provided at the end of the bench, so that heat may be conducted either to the space around the neck of an athlete or the like.

4134615, Jan 16, 1979

Apr 4, 1977

5/784654

John F. Jenkins - Absecon NJ

A47C 772, A47C 2505

297180

This involves a seating setup for people sitting side by side in a relatively cold area such as a players' bench at a football field, in which a self-contained heater is preferably located parallel to and adjacent a back wall of the setup, which back wall together with front and side walls and seat and backrest form an enclosure underneath the seat and also in back of the backrest. Heat from the heater goes into a preferably perforated pipe running the length of the enclosure underneath the seat. The front wall has openings from the outside into small individual enclosures, which openings are positioned to admit the lower legs and feet of people sitting on the seat, and are covered by interior doors when not in use; the upper part of the backrest has openings from which hot air is directed downwardly on the shoulders and surrounding areas of the bodies of people sitting on the seat; within the back part of the enclosure are areas for warming such things as footballs and towels.