Illumination
AssigneeBdz Investments Ltd
InventorJohn Bernard King
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Abstract
A method is described for deploying one or more illumination devices. The or each illumination device is self-contained and has a first state in which it is inoperative and a second state in which it is operative to provide illumination at at least one frequency within the range from and including infrared to and including ultraviolet. The method comprises the steps, optionally repeated at intervals, of: actuating a mechanism to move a said illumination device from a housing storing one or more illumination devices to an exposed position outside the housing; and automatically changing the state of the illumination device from its first state to its second state as a direct result of movement of the illumination device from within the housing to the exposed position.
Claims6
An illumination device deployment apparatus comprising:
- a housing adapted to store a plurality of identical self-contained illumination devices in a stack thereof;
- the housing being coupled to a dispensing head for dispensing successive illumination devices from the stack through a common passage to the exterior;
- the dispensing head including a slider adapted, against the bias of a return spring, to push a said illumination device from an end-most position of the stack through said common passage to the exterior;
- each illumination device having a first pre-operative state in which it is inoperative but ready for use and a second state in which it is operative to provide illumination at at least one frequency within the range from and including infrared to and including ultraviolet, the device being in said first state when within said stack;
- and the slider when in contact with an illumination device to push it from the said end-most position through said passage to the exterior, being operative to change the state of the illumination device from its first to its second state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.