Ice chest airconditioner for cooling a pet occupied motor vehicle

An ice chest air conditioner for cooling a pet while occupied in a motor vehicle, comprising:

• (a) an insulated ice chest reservoir adapted for containing a volume of ice melt in an interior portion thereof, said reservoir having four side walls, a bottom wall and a top opening, said top opening adapted for loading said volume of ice into said interior portion of said reservoir;
• (b) an insulated lid adapted for tight fitment in sealed closable engagement with said top opening, said lid being of a hollow double walled construction having a top, a bottom and sidewalls, said walls defining a first interior cooling plenum and a second conditioned air exhaust duct, said cooling plenum having an upper ambient air intake vent in the lid top wall, a lower cooled ambient air exhaust vent in the lid bottom wall, and a heat exchanger and fan assembly, whereby a said fan of said assembly, is selectively operable to evacuate an interior portion of said cooling plenum so that a volume of said ambient air is drawn into said cooling plenum through said ambient air intake vent in contact with said heat exchanger, and the forcefully exhausted from said cooling plenum through said lower cooled ambient air exhaust vent into said interior portion of said reservoir where a conditioned air is forced outwardly though said conditioned air exhaust duct;
• (c) a fluid pump, disposed in said interior of said reservoir, being in fluid communication with said heat exchanger, for recirculating a volume of melting ice water through said heat exchanger;
• (d) a snorkel having a nozzle end and an duct end, said duct end being pivotally attached to said lid in fluid communication with said conditioned air exhaust duct, and said nozzle end being capable of directing said conditioned air into an interior portion of said motor vehicle;
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• (e) a monitor and control module including a power supply, and a temperature monitor and control circuitry, wherein said power and control module being in operable control communication with said pump and fan assembly.