US1535681A - Device for supplying moisture - Google Patents

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April 28, 1925.

O. B. OLMSTEAD DEVICE FOR SUPPLYING MOISTURE INVENTOR. 7 0520 B. Olmafeaai.

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Filed April 4, 1924' Patterned Apr. 28, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

OTTO B. OLMSTEAD, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSAGHUSETTS.

DEVIGE F033; SUIPELYING MOISTURE.

Application filed April 4,

To all whom it may concern: 1 1

Be it known that I, OTTO B. OLMs'rnAD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in a Device for Supplying Moisture, of whichthe following a specification. 1 This invention relates to improvements in devices for supplying moisture to aroom. It is particularly adapted to be temporarily attached to a steam or hot water radiator. It is so constructed and arrangedthat the heat or warm air currents rising from the radiator will come directly into contact with a suitable fabric which possesses a high.

degree of capillary attraction. The invention further comprises a lattice work which is adapted to rest against the side of the radiator, and, a hook member for temporarily attaching the device to the top of the radiator; a handle member is also pro- 7 vided for convenience in carrying thedevice when it is removed from a radiator.

Referring to the drawings: I Fig. 1 is an elevational view of the front side of the air moistener device removed from a radiator and showing the open lattice work, the water absorbing fabric which normally dips into the water at the lower end or bottom of the receptacle and showing the carrying handle and the hooks for attaching the device to a radiator.

2' 2 is a vertical sectional view taken ona plane represented by the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and showing the 1nter1or construction of the water holding receptacle, the

water passage at the lower portion, the de pending fabric and the lattice work. i

Fig. 3 is a view of the top portion of the device, and

Fig. 4 is a perspective detail view partially in section.

Referring to the drawings in detail:

1 designates the usual radiator which may be either for steam or hot water heating.

2 designates as a whole the receptacle for containing the water which is indicated at 2'. from a single piece of sheet metal which is blent to provide the bottom portion 3, and the upwardly extending portion 4 to provide a water pocket, the front part 5 and the top portion 6. The bottom portion 3 is provided with a suitable cap 7 for filling the receptacle 2 when the device is inverted.

This receptacle is preferably formed 1924.. Serial'N'o. 704,201.

Attached by any suitable means, to the forward or front side of the receptacle are two U-shaped brackets 8 for receiving and sup porting the rod 9. The inwardly extending hook shaped ends .9 are located in the brackets (see Figs. 3 and 4E). Folded over this rod is a suitable fabric 10 preferably one that is formed with a large number of line threads as Turkish towelling, in order that the capillarity of the fabric may be eiiicient, since it is a well known fact that the finer the fabric the greaterwill be the capillarity and of coursathe water will be lifted to agreater height by the fabric.

Attached to the upper and lower ends of the receptacle 2 is a member 11 having the large openings 12, cut therein, whereby the heated air from the radiator Wlll very.

readily pass through these openings and flow directly into contact with the fabric,

whereby the water contained in the fabric i i will be readily evaporated or carried away by the air currents. The water, indicated at 2, passes through the opening 13 which is formed by spacing the lower end 5 of. the

ing or hanging the device on a radiator the two hooks 16 are provided. These hooks are preferably formed from a smgle plecc of wlre Wlth a bearing part 1'? which passes through the ear pieces 18. Integral with the parts 16 and 17 is the carrying handle part 19, which, as shown, is placed at any suitable angle to the hooks 16, the

angular relation being indicated at 20.

The rod 9 and fabric 10 may be readily removed when necessary by simply lifting the hooks 9" from the U-shaped brackets 8. and then moving the same laterally between the lattice 11 and the front part 5 of the device.

The device is filled with water by inverting the receptacle 2. The cap 7 is removed and the water poured into the receptacle until it is completely filled. The cap 7 is then replaced and the receptacle again turned into the position shown in Fig. 2. The level of the water now drops leaving an air space in the upper end of the receptacle since some of it flows into the space l t through the opening 13. The fabric 10 is now put in place and the hooks 16 are attached to the radiator as shown.

What I claim is: I I

1. An air moistening device designed for attachment to a radiator comprising, in combination, a receptacle for containing water, the bottom portion having an up turned part, which is spaced from the front side of the receptacle and the front side being formed with a passageway communicating with the said space and the interior of the receptacle, a pair of U-shaped brackets attached to the upper front side of the receptacle, a rod with inturned ends removably supported on the brackets, a fabric on the rod and depending therefrom and having its lower end located in said space, a lattice member attached to the upper and lower end portions of the receptacle and spaced from the fabric to prevent the fabric from coming into con tact with the radiator, and means for attaching the device to a radiator.

2. An air moistening device comprising, in combination, a receptacle for containing water, the front side of the receptacle being formed with an opening at its lower end, an upwardly extending part spaced from the front side of the receptacle to provide a pocket for the water opposite the opening, a depending fabric extending into said pocket for taking up the water, means for removably supporting the fabric in the pocket comprising a rod formed with inwardly extending bent end portions, and open ended U-shaped brackets attached to the upper end of the receptacle for receiving the bent end portions of the rod described.

3. An air moistening device comprising in combination, a water receiving receptacle forn'ied with a filling opening in its bottom part, a closure cap for the opening, one side of the receptacle having an outlet op'ening for the water near the bottom, a pocket located about the opening to receive the water from the opening, a fabric suspended adjacent the opening and in the pocket to take up the water and moisten. the fabric, and means for suspending the fabric. 1 l. An air moistening device comprising a water receiving receptacle formed with an outlet in a side wall tl'iereof, a water receiving compartment formed adjacent the opening, a fabric having its lower end suspended in the water receiving comparimcnt, to take up the water in the compartment, means for detachably supporting the fabric comprising a rod formed with in wardly extending hook-shaped ends, brackets open at their upper ends in which the said hook-shaped ends are placed to permit their removal and the removal of the fabric, means for suspending the device on a radiator, and lattice means attached to the receptacle and spacedfrom the fabric to prevent the moistened fabric from coming into contact with the hot surface of a radiator.

OTTO B. OLMSTEAD.

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