Air conditioning unit

Claim 1

AN AIR CONDITIONING UNIT HAVING A TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY CONTROL APPARATUS, COMPRISING: A CASING DEFINING AN ELONGATED CHAMBER WITH AN OUTLET OPENING AT ONE END THEREOF AND FIRST AND SECOND, SPACED INLET OPENINGS AT THE OTHER END THEREOF; AIR-MOVING MEANS LOCATED WITHIN SAID CHAMBER AND CONNECTED TO SAID OUTLET OPENING FOR MOVING AIR FROM SAID INLET OPENINGS THROUGH SAID OUTLET OPENING; WALL MEANS DIVIDING SAID CHAMBER INTO FIRST AND SECOND PASSAGEWAYS EXTENDING LENGTHWISE WITHIN SAID CHAMBER UPSTREAM OF SAID AIR-MOVING MEANS, SAID FIRST AND SECOND PASSAGEWAYS COMMUNICATING AT THE DOWNSTREAM ENDS THEREOF WITH SAID AIR-MOVING MEANS, SAID FIRST INLET OPENING BEING CONNECTED TO THE FIRST PASSAGEWAY, ONLY, NEAR THE UPSTREAM END THEREOF, AND SAID SECOND INLET OPENING BEING CONNECTED TO THE SECOND PASSAGEWAY NEAR THE UPSTREAM END THEREOF; MEANS DEFINING A DAMPER OPENING IN SAID WALL MEANS BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND PASSAGEWAYS NEAR THEIR UPSTREAM ENDS; AIR MOVEMENT CONTROL MEANS CONSISTING OF FIRST DAMPER MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID CASING IN SAID FIRST INLET OPENING, SECOND DAMPER MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID CASING IN SAID SECOND INLET OPENING AND THIRD DAMPER MEANS MOUNTED ON SAID CASING IN SAID DAMPER OPENING; LINKAGE MEANS CONNECTED TO AND BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND DAMPER MEANS SO THAT MOVEMENT OF SAID LINKAGE MEANS EFFECTS SIMULTANEOUS MOVEMENT OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND DAMPER MEANS, AND THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF UNOBSTRUCTED AREA IN SAID FIRST AND SECOND INLET OPENINGS REMAINS SUBSTANTIALLY CONSTANT WHEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND DAMPER MEANS ARE MOVED; ACTUATING MEANS FOR EFFECTING SAID MOVEMENT OF SAID LINKAGE MEANS; AND DEHUMIDIFICATION MEANS IN SAID SECOND PASSAGEWAY BETWEEN THE DOWNSTREAM END THEREOF AND SAID DAMPER OPENING.