Thermoelectric Water Cooling Tower

• US 20140130812A1
• Filed: 11/14/2012
• Published: 05/15/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Adam Lee Kling, Mark Charles Kitchens, Regis Marie Jean Wandres
• Original Assignee: Adam Lee Kling, Mark Charles Kitchens, Regis Marie Jean Wandres
• Inventors: Kitchens, Mark Charles, Kling, Adam Lee, Wandres, Regis Marie-Jean
• Application Number:
  US13/676,435
• Publication Number:
  US 20140130812A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 131/173
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 1/30 Hookahs

Abstract

The present invention is an improved medicinal herb or tobacco smoking device making use of thermoelectric technology to increase performance over thermally passive systems, provides built-in self-cleaning properties, and utilizes easy to use electrical arrangement.

Claims

1. A Thermoelectric Water Cooling Tower comprising:

a water cooling tower for storing water therein;

a receptacle for holding media to be vaporized or smoked;

a thermoelectric engine assembly to cool or heat said water in said water cooling tower;

a power base to electrically power said thermoelectric engine assembly.

2. A Thermoelectric Water Cooling Tower as claimed in claim 1, wherein said media vapors or smoke are drawn to said water cooling tower by way of externally applied depressurization at the top area of said water cooling tower and where said vapors or smoke are cooled or heated as they mix with said water.

3. A Thermoelectric Water cooling Tower as claimed in claim 1, wherein said thermoelectric engine assembly comprises a thermally conductive metallic rod, a thermoelectric chip, a metallic thermal exchanger, and an air circulating fan and where said thermoelectric chip is sandwiched between said thermally conductive metallic rod and said metallic thermal exchanger and where said thermally conductive metallic rod is at the bottom section of said water cooling tower and submerged in said water and affects the temperature of said water;

further configured where said metallic thermal exchanger is ventilated by said air circulating fan.

4. A Thermoelectric Water Cooling Tower as claimed in claims 1 and 3, wherein said water cooling tower is fluid-sealed from said thermoelectric engine assembly by way of a seal compressed between said thermally conductive metallic rod and said water cooling tower and where said thermoelectric engine assembly is thermally insulated by way of thermally non-conductive materials and where said thermally non-conductive materials insulate said thermally conductive rod and said thermoelectric chip.

5. A thermoelectric water cooling Tower as claimed in claim 1 wherein said water cooling tower, receptacle, and thermoelectric engine assembly are mated together in an external enclosure and where said external enclosure is equipped at its bottom external face with 2 electrically conductive rings where one ring carries positive side electrical current and alternatively the other carries negative side electrical current.

6. A thermoelectric Water Cooling Tower as claimed in claim 1 where said power base comprises an nesting enclosure generally configure to provide structurally balanced and stable support, a non-slip resting surface, an electrical power receptacle and a pair of spring-loaded electrical contacts wherein said electrical power receptacle allows to connect Thermoelectric Water Cooling Tower to external power, wherein said spring-loaded electrical contacts are electrically connected to said electrical power receptacle respectively establishing positive side and negative side electrical current connections and where said non-slip resting surface is non-permanently friction fitted to bottom edge of said power base.

7. A thermoelectric Water Cooling Tower as claimed in claims 5 and 6 where said external enclosure nests onto said nesting enclosure and form a free vertical axis rotating interface and when said external enclosure is nested with said nesting enclosure said electrically conductive rings establish electrical connection with said spring-loaded electrical contacts and where said electrical connection remains at any angle of rotation of the free vertical axis rotating interface.

8. A Thermoelectric Water Cooling Tower as claimed in claim 3, where thermally conductive metallic rod enables the build-up of protective and performance-increasing layer of water-ice onto its surface.