Humidity altering device

• US 3,924,807 A
• Filed: 11/01/1974
• Issued: 12/09/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Leonora Elizabeth Nash Morgan
• Original Assignee: Leonora Elizabeth Nash Morgan
• Inventors: Morgan, Leonora Elizabeth Nash
• Primary Examiner(s): King, Lloyd L.
• Application Number:
  US05/519,818
• Time in Patent Office: 403 Days
• Field of Search: 239/53,54,55,56
• US Class Current: 239/55
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 25/00 Devices used by the smoker for controlling the moisture content of, or for scenting, cigars, cigarettes or tobacco
• CPC Class Codes: B01J 2219/30207 Sphere
• CPC Class Codes: F24F 6/04 using stationary unheated wet elements
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 261/14 Display stands
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 261/72 Packing elements

Abstract

A humidity altering device formed of a pair of spherically shaped, thin walled containers having a plurality of openings in their walls for the passage of air, one container being smaller than and concentrically supported within the other container, and a moisture absorbent element contained within the inner container and externally shaped to conform substantially with the interior thereof, the outer surface of the element being exposed to the air at the openings in the wall of the inner container and substantially flush with the outer surface of the wall.

Claims

1. A humidifying device comprising:

a pair of similarly shaped, first and second, thin walled containers, the second container being smaller than and disposed centrally within the first container, the walls of said containers being disposed in spaced relation to define the inner and outer surfaces of a hollow air chamber, the walls of said containers having a plurality of apertures formed therein through which the interior of the second container and the exterior of the first container communicate with the air chamber;

upper and lower connecting members extending through the air chambers and connecting the upper portions and lower portions, respectively, of the containers for maintaining said containers in spaced relation; and

a moisture abssorbent element contained within the second container and externally shaped to conform substantially with the interior thereof, the outer surface of the element being exposed to the air in the air chamber at the apertures formed in the wall of the second container.

2. A humidifying device comprising:

a pair of spherical, first and second, thin walled containers, the second container being smaller than and disposed concentrically within the first container, with the walls of said containers disposed in radially spaced relation and defining the inner and outer surfaces of a hollow, spherical air chamber, the walls of said containers having a plurality of apertures formed therein through which the interior of the second container and the exterior of the first container communicate with the air chamber, each of said containers being formed of upper and lower hemispherical sections separable in a common plane;

an upper connecting member extending radially through the air chamber and connecting the upper hemispherical sections of the first and second containers for maintaining said upper sections in concentric relation;

a lower connecting member extending radially through the air chamber and connecting the lower hemispherical sections of the first and second containers for maintaining said lower sections in concentric relation;

a spherically shaped moisture absorbent element contained within the second container, the outer surface of the element conforming substantially to the inner surface of the second container and being exposed to the air in the air chamber at the apertures formed in the wall of the second container; and

means connecting the upper and lower hemispherical sections of the first container for releasably maintaining said sections in spherical relation and thereby releasably maintaining the spherical moisture absorbent element within the second container.

3. A humidifying device comprising:

a pair of spherical, first and second, thin walled containers, the second container being smaller than and disposed concentrically within the first container, with the walls of said containers disposed in radially spaced relation and defining the inner and outer surfaces of a hollow, spherical air chamber, each of said containers being formed of upper and lower hemispherical sections separable in a common plane, the wall of each section including a circular band having one edge lying on said plane, a centrally disposed circular end cap, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced bands connecting the end cap to the circular band and forming a plurality of generally triangular openings in the wall through which the interior of the second container and the exterior of the first container communicate with the air chamber;

an upper connecting member extending radially through the air chamber and connecting the end caps of the upper hemispherical sections of the first and second containers for maintaining said upper sections in concentric relation;

a lower connecting member extending radially through the air chamber and connecting the end caps of the lower hemispherical sections of the first and second containers for maintaining said lower sections in concentric relation;

a spherical moisture absorbent element contained within the second container, the outer surface of the element conforming substantially to the inner surface of the second container and being exposed to the air in the air chamber at the generally triangular openings formed in the wall of the second container; and

releasable connecting means on the circular bands of the upper and lower hemispherical sections of the first container for releasably maintaining said sections in spherical relation and thereby releasably maintaining the spherical moisture absorbent element within the second container.