https://www.body-furnace.com/
Wilbur licensed his invention Body Furnace to Brownmed, a leader in manufacturing products aimed at improving the quality of life for patients that has been in business for more than 50 years. In this interview with licensing expert and inventRight cofounder Stephen Key, they discuss how Wilbur developed and brought his invention to market. He started working on this project in 2003 because although he loved to hunt deer, he hated getting cold. He started trying to figure out ways to stay warm in his deer stand. He learned about how the body heats itself when your core temperature starts dropping. Brownmed further developed the product after licensing it from Wilbur. It uses reflective heat technology and has a low, medium, and high setting.
Wilbur is proud of his accomplishment, as he should be! Go Wilbur! He also shouts the Inventors Center of Kansas City, which has been a huge help. In fact he met his licensee from an inventors group meeting. His next passion involves wind energy.
Here's how it works: "Simply put, the Body Furnace heats the core, which frees your body to efficiently warm your extremities, including your hands, fingers, feet and toes.
In other words, the Body Furnace works in conjunction with the natural function of the body to keep you warm.
The human body has a certain amount of automatic temperature control, a process called thermoregulation, and attempts to maintain your body core temperature at 98.6°F. Your body has some flexibility; however, it is critical to maintain your bodily temperature within a very narrow range. Hypothermia sets in at just three degrees below our 98.6° baseline temperature.
Your body produces heat for maintaining your core temperature by metabolizing food and muscle activity, this heat is lost through the skin and lung surfaces. When heat loss from a cold environment causes the core temperature to drop, the body's natural thermostat reacts with vasoconstriction, a restriction of blood flow to the extremities and skin surfaces. This is what’s happening when you are feeling discomfort and pain in your hands and feet due to cold. Conversely, when heat is applied to the abdominal area, the core temperature rises causing a condition of vasodilation. Vasodilation expands the veins, allowing increased warm blood flow to reach the skin surfaces and extremities, relieving the discomfort of a cold environment. The Body Furnace heats the core to initiate this process of vasodilation, allowing your body to efficiently warm your extremities.
Technically-speaking, the Body Furnace is a spot warmer that uses patented thermal reflective technology to concentrate heat on the abdominal area for effective deep penetration into the body core, leveraging the natural process of thermoregulation to send heat throughout the body via the circulatory system. This function is much like that of a home's central furnace."
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