Cell useful for determining water vapor transmission rate or water content

Claim 1

A CELL FOR ABSORBING AND ELECTROLYZING WATER VAPOR TRANSMITTED FROM A SAMPLE USED IN AN APPARATUS FOR RAPIDLY DETERMINING THE WATER VAPOR TRANSMISSION RATE THROUGH PLASTIC FILMS OR LIKE STRUCTURES AND WATER CONTENT OF SOLID, LIQUID OR GASEOUS MATERIALS, THE CELL COMPRISING; A HOLLOW BODY DEFINING AN INTERIOR SPACE, A REMOVABLE CLOSURE ADJACENT SAID INTERIOR SPACED FOR SEALABLY CLOSING SAID HOLLOW BODY, A SAMPLE SUPPORT DISPOSED WITHIN SAID INTERIOR SPACE, AND ELECTROLYSIS SANDWICH STRUCTURE COMPRISING A FIRST ELECTRODE SUPPORT AND A FIRST ELECTRODE AND A SECOND ELECTRODE SUPPORT AND A SECOND ELECTRODE WITH A FIBROUS MATRIX IMPREGNATED WITH AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE WATER ABSORPTION MATERIAL DISPOSED ELECTRICALLY BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND ELECTRODE, ONE SAID ELECTRODE SUPPORTS AND ELECTRODES SEPARATING SAID FIBROUS MATRIX FROM SAID INTERIOR SPACE AND HAVING AT LEAST ONE PASSAGEWAY PROVIDING OPEN COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SAID INTERIOR SPACE AND SAID FIBROUS MATRIX THROUGH WHICH SAID WATER VAPOR IS TRANSPORTED INTO SAID FIBROUS MATRIX, SAID CELL HAVING AT LEAST ONE FIRST ELONGATED HOLLOW PROVIDING OPEN COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SAID INTERIOR SPACE AND THE EXTERIOR OF SAID CELL AND AT LEAST ONE SECOND ELONGATED HOLLOW PROVIDING OPEN COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SAID INTERIOR SPACE AND THE EXTERIOR OF SAID CELL AND AT LEAST ONE SECOND ELONGATED HOLLOW PROVIDING OPEN COMMUNICATION BETWEEN SAID FIBROUS MATRIX AND THE EXTERIOR OF SAID CELL THROUGH WHICH OXYGEN AND HYDROGEN GENERATED BY ELECTROLYSIS OF SAID WATER VAPOR IN SAID FIBROUS MATRIX IS TRANSPORTED, AND A RUBBER SEPTUM FOR PASSING A QUANTITY OF WATER INTO SAID INTERIOR SPACE FROM A LOCATION EXTERIOR OF SAID INTERIOR SPACE.