Deodorizing methods and articles using ion exchange manufacture

Claim 1

A deodorant manufacture configured into a shaped article comprising anion exchange material and normally juxtaposed to a source of odorant of at least secondary status with said anion exchange in contact with said odorant, said anion exchange material being in non-fluid and essentially non-dispersible, substantially extended form and having anion exchange sites capable of substantially sorbing anions from said odorant at the pH existing in the region of contact between said material and said odorant; any components of said material that are endowed with anion exchange sites and are grossly discernible as distinct from one another being, when considered as a group, constrained against any significant flowing so that these components as a group exhibit the characteristic of being non-fluid and essentially non-dispersible; a primary source of odorant being one where odorant is inherent or is, in effect, being generated, and a secondary source of odorant being an odoriferous region of atmosphere immediately adjacent to, and disposed to flow into or out of, a confined space.