Patent ID: 7387664

Claim:
A wet type air cleaner comprising: a housing provided with an air inlet at a top surface thereof and one or more air outlets at a lateral surface thereof, the housing containing cleaning water therein; a first blower unit, fixedly installed at a rotation shaft and having a spray unit incorporated thereon, for forcing air introduced through the air inlet to blow downward while dispersing the cleaning water supplied thereto; a water supply unit for supplying the cleaning water contained in the housing to the spray unit, to thereby allow the cleaning water to be sprayed so as to contact the air introduced through the air inlet, while adsorbing foreign substances contained in the air; and a purification unit installed below the first blower unit, a portion of the purification unit being submerged in the cleaning water such in a manner that the cleaning water is sucked up and dispersed into the housing, wherein the purification unit includes: an inner guide portion whose lower end is submerged in the cleaning water, the inner guide portion having a funnel shape whose width is narrowed from top to bottom; a water jetting nozzle connected with an upper end of the inner guide portion; a second blower unit installed at the rotation shaft for forcing the air to blow downward; and an outer guide portion installed outside the inner guide portion with a gap maintained therebetween to direct the air drawn downward by the second blower unit and the cleaning water dispersed by the spray unit into the cleaning water contained in the housing.