Portable water-generating and filtering apparatus

A portable water-generating device for obtaining water from ambient air, the improvement comprising:

• at least one thermoelectric cooling device including a cold side and a hot side;
• two thermally-conductive cold sinks each having multiple cold sink fins of a first size thermally coupled to the cold side and a thermally-conductive heat sink including multiple heat sink fins of second size thermally coupled to the hot side;
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• two cold sink blocks sized to receive the cold sinks and a separate heat sink block sized to receive the heat sink;
• an air passage having an air inlet and an air outlet, the air inlet being a passage connected to a chamber housing the cold sinks, the air outlet being a passage through which air flows through the chamber and into a chimney;
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• a plurality of air-movement devices mounted on the chimney to increase the ability to move heated air from the chimney and out of the device resulting in ambient air being pulled into the device through an air inlet and over the cold sink fins resulting in cooled air, the cooled air being directed over the heat sink fins to remove heat from the heat sink fins thereby increasing the efficiency of the device;
• whereby the ambient air is cooled as it passes over the cold sink fins causing water to condense on the cold sink fins and to collect into a collecting tray, the water being pumped through a multi-stage filtration and mineralization system and into a dispensing water reservoir for immediate or later use.

A portable water-generating device for obtaining water from ambient air, the improvement comprising:

• a plurality of thermoelectric cooling devices each including a cold side and a hot side;
• a thermally-conductive cold sink having multiple cold sink fins of a first size thermally coupled to the cold side and a plurality of thermally-conductive heat sinks each including multiple heat sink fins of a second size thermally coupled to the hot side;
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• a cold sink block sized to receive the cold sink and a plurality of separate heat sink blocks sized to receive the heat sinks;
• an air passage having an air inlet and an air outlet, the air inlet being a passage connected to a chamber housing the cold sink, the air outlet being a passage through which air flows through the chamber and into a chimney;
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• a plurality of air-movement devices mounted on the chimney to increase the ability to move heated air from the chimney and out of the device resulting in ambient air being pulled into the device through an air inlet and over the cold sink fins resulting in cooled air, the cooled air being directed over the heat sink fins to remove heat from the heat sink fins thereby increasing the efficiency of the device;
• whereby the ambient air is cooled as it passes over the cold sink fins causing water to condense on the cold sink fins and to collect into a collecting tray, the water being pumped through a multi-stage filtration and mineralization system and into a dispensing water reservoir for immediate or later use.

A portable water-generating device for obtaining water from ambient air, the improvement comprising:

• a plurality of thermoelectric cooling devices each including a cold side and a hot side;
• a plurality of thermally-conductive cold sinks each having multiple cold sink fins of a first size thermally coupled to the cold side and a thermally-conductive heat sink including multiple heat sink fins of a second size thermally coupled to the hot side;
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• a plurality of cold sink blocks sized to receive the cold sinks and a separate heat sink block sized to receive the heat sink;
• an air passage having an air inlet and an air outlet, the air inlet being a passage connected to a chamber housing the cold sinks, the air outlet being a passage through which air flows through the chamber and into a chimney;
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• a plurality of air-movement devices mounted on the chimney to increase the ability to move heated air from the chimney and out of the device resulting in ambient air being pulled into the device through an air inlet and over the cold sink fins resulting in cooled air, the cooled air being directed over the heat sink fins to remove heat from the heat sink fins thereby increasing the efficiency of the device;
• whereby the ambient air is cooled as it passes over the cold sink fins causing water to condense on the cold sink fins and to collect into a collecting tray, the water being pumped through a multi-stage filtration and mineralization system and into a dispensing water reservoir for immediate or later use.