AIR RECONDITIONING APPARATUS

• US 3,698,158 A
• Filed: 02/24/1971
• Issued: 10/17/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John E. Kinnebrew
• Original Assignee: John E. Kinnebrew
• Inventors: Kinnebrew, John E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nozick, Bernard
• Application Number:
  US05/118,367
• Time in Patent Office: 601 Days
• Field of Search: 261/78,28,84,29,90,92,95 55/230,259,227,228,419
• US Class Current: 96/249
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 3/12 characterised by the treatment of the air otherwise than by heating and cooling

Abstract

In an air reconditioning apparatus including a casing having inlet and outlet openings, a fan is mounted adjacent the outlet opening for drawing air to be reconditioned into the inlet opening through a plurality of expanded metal impingement screens, a power-operated dual action centrifugal atomizer is provided adjacent the inlets for supplying scrubbing water to the incoming air and a dehumidifying means is provided between the atomizer and the outlet fan.

Claims

1. In an air reconditioning apparatus:

a. a housing having at least one louvered inlet for intaking contaminant laden air and an outlet for discharging reconditioned air, b. an air blower in said housing adjacent said outlet for creating a flow stream of air to be reconditioned through said housing from the inlet to the outlet, c. means in said housing adjacent said inlet for imparting turbulence to the air entering said housing, d. means adjacent (c) and downstream thereof for scrubbing the turbulently flowing air With an atomized flow of treating liquid, said means comprising a blending chamber provided with a motor rotated atomizer disc for the centrifugal atomization of the treating liquid, e. means adjacent (d) and downstream thereof for dehumidifying the scrubbed air, f. means in said housing for providing a recirculated flow of treating liquid to the means of (d), and g. said atomizer disc having inboard and outboard axial faces and with means for providing an atomized flow of treating liquid centrifugally from both inboard and outboard axial faces.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein (c) comprises a plurality of adjacent but spaced apart expanded metal screens.

3. The combination of claim 1 wherein (e) comprises a plurality of adjacent but spaced apart expanded metal screens and a moisture absorbent pad adjacent and down-stream of said screens.

4. The combination of claim 1 the means of (f) further includes means for selectively and continuously directing to waste at least a portion of said recirculated treating liquid.

5. The combination of claim 4 wherein the housing is provided with a treating liquid reservoir including means for maintaining a constant level of treating liquid therein.

6. The combination of claim 1 wherein (f) includes a water distributor fixed in said housing, concentric to the axis of rotation of said atomizer disc, for supplying axial flow of treating liquid to said disc.

7. The combination of claim 6 wherein said water distributor includes an inlet conduit disposed at an oblique angle relative to the axis of rotation of said atomizer disc.