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Personal tabletop air cooler

  • US 6,357,251 B1
  • Filed: 05/03/2000
  • Issued: 03/19/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/03/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A portable cooling device comprising:

  • an elongated, tubular chamber with provision for a cold object within the chamber, the chamber supported by a base at a substantially fixed chamber angle, the angle being approximately central between horizontal and vertical;

    a fan to force air into an inlet end of the chamber and out of an outlet end of the chamber, the outlet end including a steerable vent to change the direction of air flowing out of the cooling device, the vent comprising substantially a single separate element of the cooling device including a plurality of spaced and substantially parallel vent slats, the vent being rotatable about a single axis of rotation between a lower vent position and an upper vent position, a bottom vent slat rotating about the single axis toward the inlet end of the chamber when the vent is rotated toward the lower position;

    a support structure comprising at least two distinct pivot members defining the single rotation axis across a width of the vent.

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