Patent Application
20200115920
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The disclosure and prior art relates to mist devices and more particularly pertains to a new mist device for producing a cooling mist from a commercially available bottle of drinking water.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a vertical support and a commercially available bottle of drinking water. A frame is releasably attachable to the vertical support and an awning is removably positionable on the frame. A spray tube is coupled to the frame and a spray unit is coupled to the frame. The commercially available bottle of drinking water is fluidly coupled to the spray unit and the spray unit is in fluid communication with the spray tube. The spray unit urges water in the commercially available bottle of drinking water outwardly through the spray tube to produce a mist for cooling a user.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The frame 20 has a rear section 22 extending between a pair of lateral sections 24 and each of the lateral sections 24 has a distal end 26 with respect to the rear section 22. Each of the lateral sections 24 is convexly arcuate between the rear section 22 and the distal end 26. A pair of engagements 28 is each coupled to the frame 20 and each of the engagements 28 releasably engages the vertical support 12 for retaining the frame 20 in a horizontal orientation. Each of the engagements 28 includes a leg 30 extending rearwardly from the rear section 22 and a foot 32 extending downwardly from the leg 30. The leg 30 of each engagement is spaced from the rear section 22 to define an engaging space 34 between the foot 32 and the rear section 22. The engaging space 34 insertably receives the vertical support 12 having the rear section 22 abutting the first surface 16 of the vertical support 12. In this way the frame 20 is retained in the horizontal orientation.
An awning 36 is removably positionable on the frame 20 and the awning 36 is comprised of an opaque material to shade the area beneath the awning 36. The awning 36 has a top wall 38 and a perimeter wall 40 extending downwardly therefrom, and the perimeter wall 40 has a front side 42 and a back side 44. The top wall 38 is convexly arcuate between the front 42 and back 44 sides such that the top wall 38 conforms to the curvature of the lateral sections 24 of the frame 20. Moreover, the perimeter wall 40 extends downwardly along each of the lateral sections 24 and the rear section 22 when the awning 36 is positioned on the frame 20.
A spray tube 46 is coupled to the frame 20 and the spray tube 46 is spaced from and is directed to spray toward the vertical support 12 when the frame 20 is positioned on the vertical support 12. The spray tube 46 is coupled to and extends between each of the lateral sections 24 of the frame 20 and the spray tube 46 is aligned with the distal end 26 of each of the lateral sections 24. The spray tube 46 has a plurality of apertures 48 each extending into an interior of the spray tube 46 and each of the apertures 48 is directed toward the rear section 22 of the frame 20. Moreover, the apertures 48 are spaced apart from each other and are distributed along an entire length of the spray tube 46.
A spray unit 50 is coupled to the frame 20 and the commercially available bottle of drinking water 18 can be fluidly coupled to the spray unit 50. The spray unit 50 is in fluid communication with the spray tube 46 and the spray unit 50 urges water in the commercially available bottle of drinking water 18 outwardly through the spray tube 46. In this way the spray unit 50 can produce a mist for cooling a user without requiring a continuous source of water.
The spray unit 50 comprises a support 52 that is coupled to the rear section 22 of the frame 20. The support 52 has a top surface 54 and the top surface 54 lies on a plane that is horizontally oriented. The commercially available bottle of drinking water 18 is positionable on the top surface 54. A pump 56 is coupled to the rear section 22 of the frame 20, and the pump 56 has an input 58 and an output 60. The pump 56 may be an electric water pump of any conventional design.
An input hose 62 is fluidly coupled between the input 58 and the commercially available bottle of drinking water 18 thereby placing the input 58 on the pump 56 in fluid communication with the commercially available bottle of drinking water 18. The input hose 62 can be inserted into an opening in the commercially available bottle of drinking water 18 for drawing the water outwardly therefrom. In this way the input hose 62 facilitates a fluid connection between the commercially available bottle of drinking water 18 and the pump 56 without the need for a proprietary fluid coupling.
An output conduit 64 is positioned within a respective one of the lateral sections 24 of the frame 20. The output conduit 64 is fluidly coupled between the output of the pump 56 and the spray tube 46 thereby placing the spray tube 46 in fluid communication with the commercially available bottle of drinking water 18. A power button 66 is electrically coupled to the pump 56 for turning the pump 56 on and off. A power supply 68 is removably coupled to the pump 56, the power supply 68 is electrically coupled to the pump 56 and the power supply 68 comprises at least one battery.
In use, the frame 20 is positioned on the vertical support 12 having the upper edge 14 of the vertical support 12 being positioned in the engagement space in each of the engagements 28 and having the rear section 22 of the frame 20 resting against the first surface 16 of the vertical support 12. The awning 36 is placed over the frame 20 and the commercially available bottle of drinking water 18 is positioned on the support 52. The input hose 62 is inserted into the commercially available bottle of drinking water 18 and the power button 66 is manipulated to turn on the pump 56. Thus, the pump 56 urges the water out of the commercially available bottle of drinking water 18 and outwardly through the apertures 48 in the spray tube 46 for cooling one or more people standing beneath the awning 36.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
