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The studio air cleaning system that quietly collects pastel dust and oil solvents at your easel and filters them from your studio environment.
Artist's Air quietly removes impurities from between you and your artwork, where harmful substances would otherwise collect and be inhaled. Clean air naturally replaces it, leaving you with healthier air to breathe. Most impurities created by artists are heavier than air and tend to drift downward or with air currents. Artist's Air is portable and can be quickly set up to either side of your workspace. This affordable system filters your studio air, rather than venting it outside. That saves you heating and cooling expenses and conserves energy resources. Artist's Airs collection unit fits most studio easels. However, the collection unit can be used on a table, horizontally or vertically, for artists working in other media.
Each unit is handmade in Maine and Quebec of the best material. The collection unit is made of galvanized steel and powder-coated to give it a durable flat black finish. Unlike painting, powder coating involves baking a dry pigment directly onto the steel. The filter unit likewise is constructed of steel and powder-coat finished. The connecting hose is made from very flexible, strong 6-inch wire-reinforced vinyl.
Artist's Air uses approximately as much electricity as a light bulb: 94 Watts maximum and only about 45 Watts on low. It uses a very quiet fan and the system is balanced to allow a maximum airflow with a low sound level.
The Artist's Air Standard Collection Unit includes the following:
- Collection Unit
- Collection box (30" wide, 4" deep, 10" high), lift bar, top screen, prefilter, easel strap, & 10 ft. (3 m.) flexible hose.
- Filter Unit: filter canister, prefilter, activated carbon filter, biocide filters, and true HEPA filter.
Why the Artist's Air Standard Collection Unit?
Most studio artists use toxic materials. Oil painters commonly work with harmful solvents, including turpentine and odorless petroleum distillates. Many poisonous substances have no odor. Pastel and ceramic artists generate potentially harmful dusts, including heavy-metal particles. Acrylic and gouache painters release small amounts of formaldehyde, ammonia, and gum binders into their environment. Jewelry makers release cleaning solvent by-products when soldering.
All of these, plus other dusts, chemicals, and many bacteria and viruses are filtered from your environment by Artist's Air. It incorporates the same filters used by many hospitals and other medical facilities.
Harmful substances, if not eliminated, will pollute the air not only in your studio, but also in any attached rooms and the surrounding environment. Artist's Air is an efficient and cost effective solution for a space up to 1200 square feet. Its balanced design allows a large flow of air with a low sound level.
There are three fan speeds. The highest produces about as much sound as a modern window fan, but without any high-pitch sound. Fits any easel with a 1-1/2" bottom canvas holder.
How the Filters Work
Artist's Air is constructed of durable steel with a flat black powder-coat finish. It uses a four-phase filtering system. Air is pulled through it by a very quiet fan.
1) The pre-filter stops larger particles such as dust and lint from clogging the other filters.
2) The special Vocarb Carbon filter eliminates solvent vapors, gases, and odors. This filter has ten pounds (4.5 kg) of Vocarb activated carbon that traps gases and odors that pass over it and continues working for many months before needing to be replaced. It will eliminate approximately 8 pints (4 liters) of solvent before it becomes less effective.
3) Two anti-microbial filters kill airborne microbes that pass through them.
4) The true HEPA filter traps airborne particles. These filters were developed by the Atomic Energy Commission. They can capture 99.97% of particles as small as 0.3 microns, including some bacteria and viruses.
How the Carborn Filter Works.
Activated carbon has been treated with oxygen to open up millions of tiny pores between the carbon atoms. There are so many of these that one pound of activated carbon has a working surface area of 60 to 150 acres.
Certain chemicals are attracted to activated carbon and bond to it. The millions of pores in the activated carbon provide an enormous surface area to trap these chemicals. In addition, Vocarb is specially treated to trap volatile organic compounds, such as a painter's solvents.
Clean Indoor Air is essential for good health. Artist's Air is an investment that will help you, and quite possibly your family and pets, lead longer, healthier lives and avoid the distress and expenses of allergies and other toxin-related health problems. Don't wait for symptoms to occur. Be pro-active with your health.
Note: If more than one person is painting in a studio, each painter should have an Artist's Air at their easel. The system is not designed to handle the impurities produced by more than one painter at a time.
Artist's Air will collect and filter out most impurities as they are released from an average or small-sized painting. However, even under ideal conditions nothing collects and filters 100 percent of the impurities as they are created. The system will continue to collect and filter any vapors and dust that escape into the studio. It can handle a space of approximately 1200 square feet. We recommend that artists leave the fan on low when not working to continually clean their studio air.
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