Rain-Mate Compact Travel Umbrella - Pocket Portable Folding Windproof Mini Umbrella - Auto Open and Close Button and 9 Rib Reinforced Canopy (Black)

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You need to fill up the main tank with water before using it to clean your air, which is easy enough. The LEDs catch your attention and can go from blue, red and green to yellow.

I was wary of this air purifier when I read about how it’s sold directly in the home and that they had no published CADR scores. You often hear the phrase — “it sounds too good to be true,” and for the Rainbow RainMate, this is the case. The collapse button works the same as the rest, but again, it is a bit hard to open and close all the way. When comparing the best umbrellas for travel, it’s really the little things that make a big difference.This umbrella was by far the most expensive umbrella I tried, sitting at about triple the price of the other compact umbrellas on this list. That’s definitely something every traveler (and every human being with an ounce of dignity) would like to avoid. Unfortunately, We Cannot Guarantee Next Working Day - you will be notified if we can't fulfill this. That being said, the Eezy umbrella was the compact travel umbrella that came in the most colors (the one I tried out was a gorgeous sunshiny yellow) and also featured a dual open/collapse button. Again, though, it was pretty tough to push down to collapse all the way. While the primary market for this invention was a new type of vacuum cleaner, Rainbow realized that you could also use this technology on a smaller scale as an “air purifier.”

It’s a super simple unit to use, you just switch it on when it’s full of water, and it will start pulling air from outside into the main tank and start bubbling. The LEDs are optional and have their own switch. All of the umbrellas I reviewed are good quality, portable, and affordable and each have their own special features and designs that make them unique. Warranty is “lifetime” but only protects against defects that you would conceivably notice right out of the box So while you don’t want to splurge too much on an umbrella that you run a high chance of losing or barely using, you still want your umbrella to get the job done.This was also the only umbrella I tested that did not collapse automatically with the push of a button, but it was very easy to pull down manually, so that is a plus. The construction of the Repel Windproof Travel Umbrella is very similar to the Rain Mate compact travel umbrella; the only differences between the two compact travel umbrellas is that the Repel is made with a heavier, less comfortable handle and it has Telfon coating. That being said, the Blunt Travel Umbrella came with some great features that set it apart from the less expensive models, other than just being extremely lightweight and made of high quality materials.

As this air purifier uses water to filter the air, there are no extra filter costs to consider as you just change the water every few weeks.It also claims to be “windproof,” but doesn’t have a vented double canopy like the Eezy and Lifetek, so I can’t say for sure how good the wind resistance is – it’s also the exact same inside construction as the Rain Mate, which makes no claims to being windproof. Since travel umbrellas are so often lost – left next to your seat on the bus, sitting under your table at a cafe – you usually don’t want to spend an exorbitant amount of money on one. The Rainbow RainMate air purifier was invented as part of a patent developed by Rainbow (Rexair inc) in 1988. That patent expired in 2006, so the market is now full of these “water air purifiers” that filter air through water to remove pollutants.

So, who’s to say? The bottom line is that the Repel Windproof Travel Umbrella is a good quality compact travel umbrella but nothing completely state of the art. A sturdy skeleton stitched firmly in place that won’t bust open with heavy winds and risk poking you or someone near you in the eyeball. I have read a ton of academic studies around the performance of HEPA and activated charcoal at removing pollutants and gasses from the air. Still, I have not seen any studies about the power of water to remove these types of pollutants.Please note the following postcodes are classed as Non-Mainland UK or Remote / Rural delivery: AB, IV, KW, PA, PH, HS, KA, ZE, PO30-PO41, IM, JE, GY, BT, TR21-TR25. When opened completely, the actual canopy of the umbrella was fairly small, and the T-shaped ends gave the umbrella a scalloped shape, making it easier for rain to come in. The best feature of this umbrella was the double canopy, meaning the top part of the umbrella was detached and overlapping from the bottom, so the wind theoretically would go through it rather than up under it and you would keep hold of your umbrella while still staying dry. You’ve missed your train, you wasted too much money on a flimsy umbrella, and you are very, very wet.