Patent ID: 7950631
Filing Date: 2011-05-31
Classification: F24F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. In a humidifier having a frame, a water-retaining pad mounted within said frame, an elongate tray coupleable to said frame and positionable below a water source and above said water-retaining pad, said elongate tray having a water impingement pedestal centered therein and rising from a bottom of said elongate tray, a plurality of channels radiating from said water impingement pedestal, each of said plurality of channels formed by one or more continuous vertical walls rising from said bottom, and a corresponding plurality of discharge apertures positioned along a centerline of said elongate tray and through said bottom, the improvement comprising: a first downwardly inclined surface commencing at a base of said water impingement pedestal within a first of said plurality of channels and ending at a corresponding first of said plurality of discharge apertures, wherein said first downwardly inclined surface has a first declension angle associated therewith; and a second downwardly inclined surface commencing at said base within a second of said plurality of channels and ending at a corresponding second of said plurality of discharge apertures, wherein said second downwardly inclined surface has a second declension angle associated therewith different from said first declension angle.