Non-splitting electric room vaporizer

Abstract

Abstract An improved vaporizer for directing water vapor into the air without causing foaming or accumulation of water at the exit orifice. A relatively large receptacle contains a subhousing consisting of two separated chambers. A first chamber, having electrode means therein for generating steam forming the water vapor and a second chamber are separated by partitions defining a serpentine path with an inverted U-shape configuration. The orifice communicates with the downstream end of the path. The steam after being generated flows along the serpentine path by rising in the first chamber, passing over the top of the partition and downwardly into the second chamber, then moving upwardly toward and through an exit orifice into the surrounding environment. During the downward portion of its path of travel, the relatively large water particles separate from the water vapor by gravity and return to the second chamber, the latter being in fluid communication at its bottom with the first chamber. The subhousing has a perforate bottom and supporting means with passages to the outer portions of the receptacle for making fluid communication between the receptacle and the steam generating chamber. The steam generating region is isolated from the major portion of the vaporizer itself, thereby minimizing the energy required to generate the steam, yet such region is in fluid communication with such major portions at all times to assure an adequate supply of water to such regions.

Inventors

• 👤 Paal Myklebust

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