Horizontal-air-flow humidifier

Claim 1

A HORIZONTAL HUMIDIFER COMPRISING A WATER PAN STURCTURE INCLUDING ELONGATED GENERALLY-HORIZONTAL LOWER AND INTERMEDIATE WATER PANS, EACH OF SAID LOWER AND INTERMEDIATE PANS HAVING LATERALLY-SPACED OPPOSITE SIDE WALLS, LONGITUDINALLY-SPACED END WALLS INCLINED UPWARDLY AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER AND A BOT TOM WALL, FLANGED MOUNTING MEANS AROUND THE UPPER PERIPHERY OF SAID LOWER PAN, AND AN ELONGATED GENERALLY HORIZONTAL UPPER PAN HAVING LONGITUDINALLY-SPACED END WALLS INCLINED UPWARDLY AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER AND A BOTTOM WALL, SAID UPPER, INTERMEDIATE AND LOWER PANS BEING DISPOSED IN PARTIALLY-NESTED RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BOTTOM WALL OF SAID INTERMEDIATE PAN DISPOSED BELOW THE UPPER EDGE OF SAID LOWER PAN AND WITH THE BOTTOM WALL OF SAID UPPER PAN DISPOSED BELOW THE UPPER EDGE OF SAID INTERMEDIATE PAN WITH THE INCLINED END WALSS OF SAID PANS ARRANGED IN OVERLYING RELATIONSHIP WITH ONE ANOTHER;