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US 3,997,115 AGranted
Portable atomizer for liquids
AssigneeLawrence Peska Associates, Inc.
InventorMariano B. Licudine
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Abstract
A portable atomizer includes a housing in which a battery and a motor powerable by the battery are mounted. A receptacle for liquids and a vacuum pump operatively connected to the receptacle are also mounted within the housing. The motor shaft carries a bladed fan for rotation therewith externally of the housing and a sector gear engagable with a gear on the vacuum pump so that the pump can be cyclically actuated to discharge liquid into the path of the fan.
Claims5
A portable atomizer for liquids comprising:
- a hollow housing having a discharge aperture therein;
- a battery positioned within said housing;
- a motor mounted within said housing operably connected to said battery and having a rotatable shaft thereon;
- a bladed fan carried by said motor shaft externally of said housing for rotation with said shaft;
- a receptacle for the storage of liquids mounted within said housing;
- and a vacuum pump mounted within said housing operatively connected to said receptacle and drivable cyclically by said motor to pump measured quantities of liquid from said receptacle for discharge from said housing through said discharge aperture into the rotational path of said bladed fan.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.