Air Humidification Injection Apparatus

a technology of air humidification and injection apparatus, which is applied in the direction of carburetor air, tobacco, separation process, etc., can solve the problems of inability to achieve precise and consistent relative humidity, insufficient natural evaporation rate to rapidly establish a selected relative humidity, and inability to control the rate of evaporation. achieve the effect of stable storage environmen
US20150137394A1Inactive Publication Date: 2015-05-21REED KEITH S
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Patent Type
Applications(United States)
Current Assignee / Owner
REED KEITH S
Publication Date
2015-05-21
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

The invention is an apparatus that humidifies air to a selected relative humidity and injects the humidified air into a container to establish the selected relative humidity throughout the container. The apparatus facilitates ambient supply air into a vessel for humidification to a selected relative humidity. The resulting humidified air is purged from the vessel and routed for injection into the container. The injected humidified air infiltrates the container and sustains the selected relative humidity throughout the container. Contents of the container are thus maintained at the selected relative humidity.
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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0001] Proper humidification is essential for cigars or other items that have storage recommendations requiring specific relative humidity levels. Passive methods of humidification include the natural evaporation of ambient moisture. In devices that use passive humidification methods, moisture naturally evaporates from a solid state medium, typically a porous membrane, such as a sponge or foam-type material, a fibrous grid or matrix, a hygroscopic salt, or a polymer designed to expand and contain moisture, as exhibited in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,975,288; 7,892,327; 5,936,178; and 8,087,645 respectively. The rate of evaporation is not able to be controlled, thus a precise and consistent relative humidity cannot be achieved. Furthermore, the relatively slow rate of natural evaporation is not sufficient to rapidly establish a selected relative humidity in an enclosure, specifically a cigar humidor or other enclosure that is repeatedly opened and needs to be repeatedl...

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