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US 6,669,553 B2Granted
Noise suppression and sound proof chamber
OwnerAlbert G. Adamsinventor
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The present invention relates primarily to the provision of a Sound Proof Chamber (10), and optionally also relates to an Electronic Surveillance Bug Proof Chamber. Both embodiments comprise a sealed cavity located within all walls, roof, and optionally the floor surfaces of said chamber, which cavity is kept under a Partial Vacuum. The type of chamber which is fabricated is dependent on its intended use. For example, in high level applications, an additional combination of absorbing acoustic, and radio frequency blocking surfacing, and electronic sounds detector can be used to further restrict or detect the transmission of sounds within said enclosure. In lower level applications, the vacuum cavity may have sufficient noise suppression capability. The chamber is of the present invention is preferably manufactured using modular components in an assembly kit form in order to provide the consumer with a variety of chamber shapes, colors and incremental sizes.
A sound transmission restricting chamber for reducing the transmission of sound between the outside of said chamber and the inside of said chamber, comprising a plurality of interconnected modular components which essentially surrounds an area in order to form said chamber, wherein a plurality of said modular components comprise an inner wall surface, an outer wall surface, an edge frame structure jointing said inner wall surface to said outer wall surface, which edge frame structure extends around the perimeter of said modular component, wherein a cavity is formed between said inner and said outer wall surface, and wherein said edge frame includes a seal for sealing one component to an adjacent second component, wherein air is withdrawn from each of said modular components in order to establish at least a partial vacuum within the cavities of said interconnected modular components, and wherein each edge frame comprises at least one depressurization opening which can be positioned operatively adjacent to a depressurization opening on an adjacent edge frame from an adjacent modular component, in order to interconnect said modular components, whereby air can be simultaneously extracted from at least two of said modular components.
A sound transmission restricting chamber for reducing the transmission of sound between the outside of said chamber and the inside of said chamber, comprising a plurality of interconnected modular components which essentially surrounds an area in order to form said chamber, wherein a plurality of said modular components comprise an inner wall surface, an outer wall surface, an edge frame structure jointing said inner wall surface to said outer wall surface, which edge frame structure extends around the perimeter of said modular component, wherein a cavity is formed between said inner and said outer wall surface, and wherein said edge frame includes a seal for sealing one component to an adjacent second component, wherein air is withdrawn from each of said modular components in order to establish at least a partial vacuum within the cavities of said interconnected modular components, and additionally comprising a window module which includes a window structure having an inner transparent panel and an outer transparent panel, and a window edge structure, which transparent panels and window edge structures define a window cavity therebetween, and wherein said window edge structure includes at least one opening for operatively connecting said window cavity to said cavity within said modular component so that air can be removed from said window cavity into said modular cavity.
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