Patent ID: 6357251
Filing Date: 2002-03-19
Classification: F24F,Y02E

Abstract:
A portable cooling device comprising:an elongated, tubular chamber with provision for a cold object within the chamber, the chamber supported by a base at a substantially fixed chamber angle, the angle being approximately central between horizontal and vertical; a fan to force air into an inlet end of the chamber and out of an outlet end of the chamber, the outlet end including a steerable vent to change the direction of air flowing out of the cooling device, the vent comprising substantially a single separate element of the cooling device including a plurality of spaced and substantially parallel vent slats, the vent being rotatable about a single axis of rotation between a lower vent position and an upper vent position, a bottom vent slat rotating about the single axis toward the inlet end of the chamber when the vent is rotated toward the lower position; a support structure comprising at least two distinct pivot members defining the single rotation axis across a width of the vent.