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US 6,789,787 B2Granted
Portable, evaporative cooling unit having a self-contained water supply
OwnerTommy Stuttsinventor
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Abstract
A portable cooling unit (i.e. a mister) having a portable frame on which a fan and a water tank is mounted. A pump is mounted on the frame for pumping water from the tank to nozzles in a mister head which, in turn, is mounted on the front of the fan. Both the direction and the flow through the nozzles are adjustable.
Claims13
A portable mister unit comprising:
- a frame;
- wheels mounted on said frame for allowing said frame to be easily moved about;
- an electrically-driven fan mounted on said frame;
- a mister head mounted on the front of said fan whereby said mister head lies within the air flow from the fan when said fan is operating;
- said mister head comprising:
- an H-shaped support comprised of two elongated conduits joined with a cross conduit to form a continuous fluid passageway therethrough;
- a spray nozzle mounted on each end of each of said two elongated conduits by a rotatable connection;
- a valve fluidly connected between said respective ends of said elongated conduits and each respective spray nozzle to control flow through said spray nozzle;
- a storage tank mounted on said frame for movement therewith;
- and
- means for delivering water from said storage tank to said mister head.
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A portable mister unit comprising:
- a frame comprising:
- a horizontal platform and
- a vertical support attached to said horizontal platform and extending upward therefrom;
- wheels mounted on the underside of said horizontal platform for allowing said frame to be easily moved;
- an electrically-powered fan mounted on the front of and near the upper end of said vertical support;
- a mister head mounted on the front of said fan whereby said mister head lies within the airflow from the fan when said fan is operating;
- a storage tank mounted on said horizontal platform;
- an electrically-powered pump mounted on said storage tank and having an inlet fluidly connected to the interior of said storage tank;
- and
- a conduit fluidly connecting the outlet of said pump to said mister head.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.