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Air intake apparatus

  • US 4,850,265 A
  • Filed: 07/01/1988
  • Issued: 07/25/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/01/1988
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A cupola mounted on an apex of a roof of a building and over an inlet formed in the roof, comprisinga housing having a pair of sidewalls, a pair of upright end walls, and a cover,a pair of upper, vertically disposed elongate openings and a pair of lower horizontally disposed elongate openings formed in said sidewalls of said housing for the intake of air, anda set of elongate rain baffles having bottom lips and connected to said end walls of said housing, said baffles disposed inwardly of said upper openings and obliquely to said sidewalls, said bottom lips of said baffles located above said lower openings so that said baffles collect wind driven rain entering said upper openings and deflect the rain out of said apparatus through said lower openings so that said cupola collects air substantially free of rain for the interior of the building.

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