Air conditioner air directing means

Claim 1

Improved means for directing conditioned-air discharge from a wall-mountable self-contained air-conditioning unit, comprising: a. means defining a generally vertically arranged conditionedair discharge opening from said unit; b. air-directing means mountable in said opening for ready removal therefrom, c. said air-directing means including plural nozzle-like members, d. each of said members having two opposite ends and a pair of axles with each of said ends having one of said axles; e. plural sets of vertically arranged opposed bearings horizontally spaced along the upper and lower edges of said opening for respectively receiving and journalling said pairs of axles therein such that said members can be pivotally moved relative to said opening independently of one another about a vertical axis, f. said bearings being slotted to permit easy insertion and removal of said axles into and from them; and g. resilient fastener means for releasably retaining said axles in said slotted bearings, h. said members having fixed louvers that are arranged to deflect air discharging therethrough generally downwardly when said axles are vertically journalled in said bearings in a first position, but will deflect air discharging therethrough generally upwardly when said axles are vertically journalled in said bearings in a second position inverted from said first position.