US2132288A - Air conditioner for fans - Google Patents

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Oct. 4, 1938. w A D VANTER 2,132,288

AIR CONDITIONER FOR FANS Filed Sept. 2, 1937 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Oct. 4, 1938. w. VAN DE VANTER AIR CONDITIONER FOR'FANS Filed Sept. 2, 195'7 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 awe/MM m'lil'am Vkflpeyczn fer Patented Oct. 4, 1938 iTED STAT Zgittfitt Application September 2 Visitors.

This invention relates to an air conditioner particularly adapted for use adjacent to or in connection with an air circulating tan.

It is aimed to provide an exceedingly simple 5 construction capable of manufacture and uplseep at low cost, which is portable so as to be moved from room to room or from building to building, which will occupy minimum space and which will be advantageous in the relief or asthma,

l hay-fever and the like. r

The more specific objects and advantages will become apparent from a consideration of the description following taken in connection with accompanying drawings illustrating an opera- 15 tive embodiment.

in said drawings:-

Figure 1 is a view in edge. elevation showing my improvements in connection with an air cir culating fan;

so Figure 2 isa front elevation of the humidifier;

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view talren on the plane of line t -d of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a vertical sectional-view taken on the plane of line l -ll of Figure 3;

25 Figure 5 is a fragmentary edge elevation oil the wheel frame and Figure 6 is a detail section taken on the line i l-t of Figure 1.

Referring specifically to the drawings wherein 30 like reference characters designate like or simi= lar parts, a suitable pan or receptacle is provided at iii, adapted to contain water. A hood or arch shaped wall it has its lower ends riveted or otherwise fastened as at it to opposite sides 3,, of the receptacle it). Wall ii is narrower than the receptacle and at the rear edge has a right angularly disposed flange or reinforcing plate it extending interiorly and eirterlorly of the wall it and also extending below the'top of the re- 40 ceptacle and in engagement with the sides or the latter as best shown in Figures 1 and 2, so as to generally rigidity the structure.

A wheel or frame lie is rotatably mounted within the wall it and it extends into the. water 5 within receptacle iii. Such frame is'oi' skeleton form being made up of various wires it eittending outwardly from connected hub plates ital, the radial rods it being connected by lateral rods it which may be parallel to the axis 50 of rotatiorrof the wheel but which are preferably at an angle to such axis of rotation as shown in Figure 5 at it", and inclining for wardly and downwardly.

A wick in the form of an elongated one piece -band or strip of cloth or other absorbent mate= 2, Mill, Serial No liritfitt (or. arreal rial it has a hoolr ill at one end thereof adapted to detachably engage one of the rods it and then be wrapped over the remaining rods iii rotation oi" the wheel or frame, condition the air.

an arch shaped rod or bracket extends across the openings of the wall ll, being journaled therein and held against displacement by a head am on one end of the bracket. Such bracket has a central spindle disposed within the space oi the wall it on which the wheel or frame is journaled. Such wheel or frame has an abutment thereon engaged by one of the co hub plates that and at the opposite end has a nut 2i adjustably screw threaded thereon, between which and the other hub plate an errpensive spring Eli and washers are mounted. Jlhe freedom of rotation of the wheel on the spindle 25 is controlled through the tension of the spring which is varied through the ad-' justment or the nut 2i.

At times it is preferred to have the wheel rotate on a horizontal axis and at other times it is preferred that the axis be inclined in order to increase or decrease the effective action of a ran lib. it will also be realized that when the bars iii" are inclined as in Figure 5, more of the surface will be exposed to the blast from the fan lit i In order to fasten the wheel in different positions, one at an angle to the horizontal, the bracket iii as best shown in Figures 1, 2 and 6 has an angular arm iii whose free end this 40 disposable selectively in openings 33 and it in the wall it, according to whether the spindle should be horizontal or inclined.

Preferably the wall it is reinforced by struclr= out ribs 7 v is lit will be realized that the device is portable and may be used in connection with any fan of which that disclosed at iili is representative, the same being a portable electric fan. The air from the fan impinges against the wiclr or other portions of the wheel, causing the same to rotate through the water in the receptacle it, the wick absorbing the same and due to the contact oi the air from the fan therewith, the air is ehiectively conditioned. The wheel rotates tilt usually rather slowly, the speed governed by the tension of the spring 28.

Various changes may be resorted to provided they fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.

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2. An humidifier device for use in connection with a tan or the like, the device comprising a receptacle adapted to contain water, an arch shaped hood h ving its terminals connected to the receptacle, wheel surrounded by the hood, said wheel being or skeleton form and having a wick threaded thereover and operable through the water, a bracket Journaled by said hood, said bracket having a spindle on which the wheel is -journaled, co-acting: means between the bracket and the hood to secure the spindle at different angles. and means on the spindle operable against the wheel to control its speed of turning.

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