Air cleaner

Claim 1

AN AIR CLEANING DEVICE COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A HOUSING, A PLURALITY OF PARTICULATE COLLECTOR ELEMENTS EACH BEING FORMED OF A FENESTRATED METAL CONSTRUCTION, TWO SERIES OF COLLECTOR ELEMETN MOUNTS POSITIONED IN SAID HOUSING IN ALTERNATE SPACED RELATION TO EACH OTHER TO SUPPORT SAID PLURALITY OF COLLECTOR ELEMENTS IN SAID HOUSING IN SPACED GENERALLY COEXTENSIVE RELATION TO EACH OTHER, POWER SUPPLY MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID RESPECTIVE SERIES OF COLLECTOR ELEMENT MOUNTS TO EFFECT CHARGING OF ALTERNATE COLLECTORS ON THE MOUNTS TO A HIGH VOLTAGE WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER, EACH OF SAID COLLECTOR ELEMENTS COMPRISING A PEERVIOUS METAL CORE SANDWICHED BETWEEN TWO METAL FOIL SHEATHS, EACH OF SAID SHEATHS BEING CORRUGATED TO DEFINE A PLURALITY OF PARALLEL CORRUGATIONS EACH OF WHICH PROTRUDES OUTWARDLY TO A SHARP CROWN, EACH OF SAID PROTURDING CORRUGATIONS BEING TRANSVERSELY SEVERED AT LONGITUDINAL INTERVALS THEREALONG TO FORM LONGITUDINAL CORRUGATION SEGMENTS, EACHOF SAID CORRUGAITON SEGMENTS BEING FOLDED INWARDLY AT ONE END ONLY TO FORM AN AIR DIRECTING DEFLECTOR MEANS EXTENDING OUTWARDLY TO A SHARP POINT AT AN ACUTE ANGLE TO THE ADJACENT COLLECTOR CORE, EACH SAID DEFLECTOR MEANS BEING OF PYRAMIDAL SHAPE HAVING TWO SIDES AND AN OPEN END, AND A WATER SOLUBLE AND SUBSTANTIALLY NON-VOLATILE PARTICULATE COLLECTING FILM SUBSTANTIALLY COVERING THE SURFACES OF EACH OF SAID COLLECTOR ELEMENTS, SAID SHARP POINTS PROMOTING A DARK DISCHARGE BETWEEN ADJACENT COLLECTOR ELEMENTS SUBSTANTIALLY FREE OF GENERATION OF OZONE AND NITROUS OXIDE.