Heat treatment of banknotes in an oxygen-free environment
AssigneeSpectra Systems Corporation
InventorNabil Lawandy
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Abstract
A method and associated apparatus for disinfecting at least one banknote, each banknote including a substrate, visual data, and a security feature, including disposing the at least one banknote in an oxygen-free environment, and exposing the at least one banknote to a temperature and for a duration sufficient to disinfect the at least one banknote and not compromise the security feature and the visual data, where to disinfect the at least one banknote includes to significantly deactivate, kill, or eliminate one or more pathogens from the at least one banknote.
Claims18
A system for banknote disinfection, comprising:
- at least one banknote, each banknote including a substrate, visual data, and a security feature;
- a unit containing the at least one banknote and configured to maintain an oxygen-free environment at a temperature and for a duration sufficient to disinfect the at least one banknote and not compromise the security feature and the visual data of the at least one banknote;
- and
- a structure holding the at least one banknote within the unit;
- wherein to disinfect the at least one banknote includes to significantly deactivate, kill, or eliminate one or more pathogens from the at least one banknote.
A system for banknote disinfection, comprising:
- at least one banknote, each banknote including a substrate, visual data, and a security feature;
- an oxygen-free atmosphere generation device configured to generate an oxygen-free atmosphere;
- a heating unit containing the at least one banknote and configured to receive and maintain the oxygen-free atmosphere at a temperature and for a duration sufficient to disinfect the at least one banknote and not compromise the security feature and the visual data of the at least one banknote;
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- a structure holding the at least one banknote within the heating unit;
- wherein to disinfect the at least one banknote includes to significantly deactivate, kill, or eliminate one or more pathogens from the at least one banknote.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.