Device for conditioning air with improved gas-liquid contact pad

Claim 1

For use in conjunction with a device for conditioning air wherein said device has a means for providing air flow therethrough at an operative velocity in excess of about 400 feet per minute, a gas-liquid contact pad being adapted for downward gravity flow of water therethrough and comprising: (a) a body formed of a plurality of vertical layers of generally flat planular sheets the planes of which are all parallel to each other, and with said layers being slit and planularly expanded to form a multiplicity of inclined baffles and connecting webs forming cell-like openings, (b) said pad having a plurality of discrete groups of individual layers therein, (c) all the layers within each discrete group of layers being expanded in the same planular direction so that they are identically oriented, (d) the baffles in all the layers within each discrete group of layers being oriented to face in the same direction and being generally parallel to each other, (e) each said group of layers being oriented to face in the opposite direction from its directly adjacent group so that the baffles of one said group face oppositely to the baffles of the next adjacent group.