Hand-held gas powered steamer for applying scent reducing and cover scent preparations to apparel and gear in the field
OwnerDarrell Forresterinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for masking or reducing undesired scents emanating from hunting and military gear, the method including providing a hand-held, cordless steamer having a reservoir, a boiler, a gas combustion device and a gas cartridge, adding a liquid cover scent preparation or a liquid scent reducing preparation to the reservoir, pumping the cover scent preparation or the scent reducing preparation from the reservoir to the boiler, using the gas combustion device to ignite and combust a gas delivered from the source of gas thereby creating heat which is used to convert the liquid in the boiler into a steam, and applying the steam directly to a piece of hunting or military gear.
Claims26
A method of masking or decreasing undesired smells emanating from hunting or military gear comprising:
- providing a steamer including a body having a handle portion, a nozzle portion and a tubular housing portion extending to and between the nozzle portion and the handle portion, the tubular housing portion containing a boiler with a gas combustion device and a source of gas operatively coupled to the boiler, wherein the steamer and the body are hand-held and cordless and the source of gas is a detachable cartridge,
- supplying a liquid to the boiler, the liquid being selected from the group consisting of a cover scent preparation and a scent reducing preparation,
- using the gas combustion device to ignite and combust a gas from the source of gas thereby creating heat,
- using the heat to convert the liquid within the boiler into a steam, and
- directing the steam out of the body onto a piece of hunting or military gear thereby masking or decreasing undesired smells emanating from the piece of hunting or military gear.
A system for masking or decreasing undesired smells emanating from hunting or military gear comprising:
- a body having a handle portion, a nozzle portion and a housing portion extending to and between the handle portion and the nozzle portion, wherein the body is cordless and hand-holdable,
- a boiler disposed within the housing portion, the boiler containing a liquid selected from the group consisting of a cover scent preparation and a scent reducing preparation,
- a gas combustion device disposed within the housing portion and arranged in a heat exchange relationship with the boiler,
- a gas cartridge disposed within the body and operatively coupled to the gas combustion device, and
- a battery assembly disposed within the body and operatively coupled to the gas combustion device.
A method of masking or decreasing undesired smells emanating from hunting or military gear comprising:
- providing a steamer,
- adding a liquid to the steamer, the liquid being selected from the group consisting of a cover scent preparation and a scent reducing preparation,
- using the steamer to convert the liquid into a steam, and
- applying the steam to a piece of hunting or military gear thereby masking or decreasing undesired smells emanating from the piece of hunting or military gear,
- wherein the steamer is cordless and includes a hand-holdable housing that encloses a boiler, a gas combustion device arranged in a heat exchange relationship with the boiler, a reservoir operatively coupled to the boiler for storing the liquid and a gas source operatively coupled to the gas combustion device, the hand-holdable housing extending to and between a nozzle and a handle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.