Patent ID: 7226354

Claim:
A storage device having air purification, said storage device comprising a storage area for storing a stored object formed by at least a pair of vertically extending, transversely spaced supports supporting at least two vertically spaced, horizontally extending shelf boards, said supports and said shelf boards defining at at least one vertical side thereof at least one vertically extending access opening for placing the stored object within said storage area upon selected of said shelf boards and for removing the stored object therefrom, at least one of said supports and one of said shelf boards having hollow portions communicating with each other to define an inlet air opening for drawing atmospheric air into said storage device and an outlet path including an outlet air opening for exhausting atmospheric air introduced in said inlet path from said inlet air opening, and an air purification system including at least a device for circulating atmospheric air through the inlet path and the outlet path and an air purification device in the path of the circulated atmospheric air, the circulated air being directed across said access opening to form an air curtain there across.