Built in de-icing device

Claim 1

In combination, a motor vehicle, a road surface for supporting said vehicle, a de-icing apparatus comprising an elongated hollow conduit embedded under said surface and having first and second open ends exterior said surface for receiving and discharging a flow of a exhaust gas therethrough, a first flexible conduit member open at each end thereof, one end communicating with the first end of said elongated conduit, the other end of said flexible conduit communicating with heated exhaust gas from said vehicle, said second end of said elongated conduit communicating with and venting said gas to the atmosphere whereby there is continuous fresh passage of said gas from said vehicle through said conduit to said atmosphere, a vertically disposed hollow conduit portion backstream of said second open end integral with said conduit and communicating with said second open end whereby said exhaust gas is vented above the source thereof.