Patent ID: 8005350

Claim:
A vaporizer for an aromatic odor neutralizer, said vaporizer including the combination of: a vessel including a side wall joined with a first end wall to form a gaseous impervious chamber above a stored volume of volatile liquid bounded by a dispensing wall opposite said first end wall; a ventilating housing including a cylindrical side wall for receiving said vessel to form a vaporization chamber there between terminating at a liquid storage cup for volatile liquid dispensed from said vessel; a metering wall encircling said dispensing wall, said metering wall having at least one opening for an intermittent flow of air into said gaseous impervious chamber counter concurrent with a discharge of volatile fluid from said vessel to said liquid storage cup; an upstanding surface in said liquid storage cup for piercing said dispensing end wall; and a wick having a portion immersed in volatile liquid in said liquid storage cup while residing in said vaporization chamber.