Apparatus and method for moisture control
AssigneeBel-Art Products, Inc.
InventorsFrancis Gomes, Paul Thom, David Landsberger
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Abstract
A housing assembly includes first and second sides and first and second panels spaced apart from each other by an interior of the housing and traversing the first and second sides. A first porous desiccant retention plate and a second porous desiccant retention plate are spaced from each other are secured within the housing so as to define a desiccant chamber therebetween for maintaining the desiccant medium. An opening is formed within one of said panels in a location corresponding to the location of the desiccant chamber, facilitating replacement of the desiccant medium within the desiccant chamber.
Claims12
A housing assembly for a moisture control apparatus, comprising:
- a housing having first and second sides and first and second panels spaced apart from each other by an interior of the housing and traverse to said sides;
- a moist gas inlet provided in the first side of said housing;
- a dry gas outlet provided in the first side of said housing in spaced-apart relationship to said moist gas inlet;
- a desiccant medium provided in said housing between said moist gas inlet and said dry gas outlet;
- a first porous desiccant retention plate secured within said housing;
- a second porous desiccant retention plate secured within said housing in spaced apart relationship to said first desiccant retention plate;
- said first and second porous desiccant retention plates define a desiccant chamber therebetween for maintaining said desiccant medium;
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- a drying fan provided in said housing for generating a flow of a moist gas through said moist gas inlet, into said housing, through said first and second porous retention plates and said desiccant medium situated in the desiccant chamber, so as to be discharged from said housing through said dry gas outlet;
- and an arrangement for reactivating said desiccant medium comprising a regeneration gas inlet provided in the second side of said housing spaced from said first side by an interior of the housing, a regeneration gas outlet provided in the second side of said housing in spaced-apart relationship to said regeneration gas inlet, and a regeneration fan provided in said housing between said regeneration gas inlet and said regeneration gas outlet.
A housing assembly for a moisture control apparatus, comprising:
- a housing having at least first and second sides and first and second panels spaced apart from each other by an interior of the housing and transverse to said sides;
- a moist gas inlet provided in the first side of the housing;
- a dry gas outlet provided in the first side of said housing in a spaced-apart relationship to said moist gas inlet;
- a desiccant medium provided in said housing between said moist gas inlet and said dry gas outlet;
- said desiccant medium being situated in a desiccant chamber formed as a unitary cartridge removable from said housing;
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- a drying fan provided in said housing for generating a flow of a moist gas into said housing through said unitary cartridge situated in the desiccant chamber, so as to be discharged from said housing through said dry gas outlet;
- an arrangement for reactivating said desiccant medium comprising a regeneration gas inlet provided in the second side of said housing space from said first side by an interior of the housing, a regeneration gas outlet provided in the second said of said housing in spaced-apart relationship to said regeneration gas inlet, and a regeneration fan provided in said housing between said regeneration gas inlet and said regeneration gas outlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.