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US 4,979,377 AGranted
Chamber with an air humidification device
AssigneeSociete d'Electromenager du Nord Selnor
InventorsHughes Fievet, Georges Vennin
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AssigneeSociete d'Electromenager du Nord Selnor
InventorsHughes Fievet, Georges Vennin
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A chamber comprising an air humidification device is disclosed. This chamber comprises an improved humidification device. The chamber has a vessel containing water which gets evaporated to humidify the water of the chamber. When a refrigerated chamber is used, the water vapor gets condensed and solidifies in forming frost on an evaporator. Advantageously, the defrosting water is used to re-humidify the air of the chamber in making this water follow a path comprising projecting features and negative slopes. The non-evaporated defrosting water is either added to the tank or rejected outwards. The disclosed device can be applied chiefly to the humidification of chambers. It can be applied notably, to the humidification of refrigerated chambers such as, for example, chambers designed for the storage, keeping and aging of bottled wine. It can also be applied to refrigerated chambers for the storage of foodstuffs or photosensitive materials such as, for example, photographic films or photosensitive paper.
A refrigerated chamber having a cooling system and means for humidification, said means for humidification comprising at least one water vessel (8) at a place where the temperature in the chamber favors the evaporation of its water, an evaporator (4) of said cooling system condensing the evaporated water in said refrigerated chamber, means for defrosting said evaporator (4), and means (13,14) for guiding in said refrigerated chamber a flow of defrosted water from said evaporator to said water vessel (8) and creating in said flow of defrosted water mini-waterfalls which enable defrosted water to be evaporated on both faces of the turbulent flow.
A refrigerator providing cooling and humidity comprising,
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