Patent ID: 6189831
Filing Date: 2001-02-20
Classification: B64D

Abstract:
A separating apparatus for separating a smoking area and a non-smoking area, defined in a passenger cabin of an airliner, with respect to cigarette smoke, comprising:curtain means for partially dividing the smoking and non-smoking areas, said curtain means including a curtain wall adapted to extend along a boundary between the smoking and non-smoking areas when suspended from a ceiling of the passenger cabin, The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said cutain wall includes a slit curtain adapted to be hung down over an aisle of the passenger cabin, said slit curtain having a slit for splitting an under portion of said slit curtain to allow a passenger to pass through said slit curtain; andexhaust means for discharging air from the smoking area through the ceiling of the smoking area, said exhaust means including an aisle exhaust port located in a portion of the ceiling which is near said slit curtain, said aisle exhaust port producing an upward air flow directed to the ceiling in the smoking area.