Patent ID: 7784584

Claim:
A device ( 1 ; 10 ) for reducing noise and heat emissions from a laboratory instrument in a laboratory, comprising a casing ( 2 ; 20 ) with sound-absorbing walls ( 24 ; 240 ), wherein the casing ( 2 ; 20 ) forms a first interior space ( 21 ; 210 ) for accommodating the laboratory instrument and a second interior space ( 22 ; 220 ) for accommodating an auxiliary unit, said first and second interior spaces ( 21 , 22 ; 210 , 220 ) being separated from each other by an intermediate wall ( 9 ; 90 ), wherein at least one of the sound absorbing walls ( 24 ; 240 ) is arranged as a door ( 241 , 242 ; 2410 , 2420 ) providing access to said first interior space ( 21 ; 210 ), wherein at least one of the sound-absorbing walls ( 24 ; 240 ) has an air inlet ( 3 ; 30 ) in the area of the second interior space ( 22 ; 220 ) for feeding air into the second interior space ( 2 ; 220 ), and wherein a flue ( 4 ; 40 ) is provided in one of the sound absorbing walls ( 24 ; 240 ) in the area of the second interior space ( 22 ; 220 ) for exhausting air out of said second interior space ( 22 ; 220 ), wherein the intermediate wall ( 9 ; 90 ) is provided with at least one inlet passage ( 81 ; 810 ) to pass air from said second interior space ( 22 ; 220 ) to said first interior space ( 21 ; 210 ) and with at least one outlet passage ( 82 ; 820 ) to pass air from said first interior space ( 21 ; 210 ) to said second interior space ( 22 ; 220 ), wherein said second interior space ( 22 ; 220 ) comprises an insulation shell ( 6 ; 60 ) covering said air inlet ( 3 ; 30 ) and being arranged to divert air coming in through said air inlet ( 3 ; 30 ) to said at least one inlet passage ( 81 ; 810 ), and wherein said second interior space ( 22 ; 220 ) comprises means ( 41 ; 410 ) for directing air from said at least one outlet passage ( 82 ; 820 ) into said flue ( 4 ; 40 ), and wherein said air inlet ( 3 ; 30 ), insulation shell ( 6 ; 60 ), inlet passage ( 81 ; 810 ), outlet passage ( 82 ; 820 ) and flue ( 4 ; 40 ) are arranged so that both the first and second interior spaces ( 21 , 22 ; 210 , 220 ) of the casing ( 2 ; 20 ) are veritable via the air inlet ( 3 ; 30 ) and the flue ( 4 ; 40 ).