Air-conditioning devices for automobile vehicles

Claim 1

AN AIR-CONDITIONING DEVICE FOR AUTOMOBILE VEHICLES HAVING A HOLLOW GIRDER FORMING A TRANSVERSE REINFORCING MEMBER ARRANGED SUBSTANTIALLY UNDER THE WINDSCREEN OF A VEHICLE COMPRISING A PARTITION PERPENDICULAR TO THE LONGITUDINAL PLANE OF SYMMETRY OF THE VEHICLE SEPARATING SAID HOLLOW GIRDER INTO A HOT-AIR COMPARTMENT AND A FORWARD COLD AIR COMPARTMENT, MEANS COMMUNICATING WITH THE EXTERIOR OF THE BODY TO SAID COLD-AIR COMPARTMENT, RADIATOR MEANS DISPOSED IN MEANS CONNECTING SAID HOT- AND COLD-AIR COMPARTMENTS, AT LEAST ONE ORIFICE IN SAID HOT-AIR COMPARTMENT CONNECTING SAID COMPARTMENT TO THE PASSENGER SPACE, DUCT MEANS COMMUNICATING WITH THE LOWER PART OF SAID HOT-AIR COMPARTMENT AND EXTENDING OVER THE WHOLE WIDTH OF THE VEHICLE AND TERMINATING IN THE PROXIMITY OF THE FLOOR OF THE VEHICLE BY AN ELONGATED ORIFICE ORIENTATION TOWARDS THE REAR OF THE VEHICLE, AT LEAST ONE SHUTTER MEANS BEING DISPOSED BETWEEN THE HOTAIR COMPARTMENT AND SAID ORIFICE OF SAID DUCT, AND AN EVACUATION CONDUIT CONSTITUTED BY PARTS OF THE VEHICLE BODY AND OPENING INTO THE AMBIENT AIR IN A ZONE IN WHICH THE AMBIENT AIR IS PUT INTO DEPRESSION BY THE MOVEMENT OF THE VEHICLE.