Back to results
US 12,510,774 B2Granted
Automatic eyewear cleaning station and method of using the same
OwnerJustin Stevensinventor
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
An automatic eyewear treatment station is used to clean and disinfect eyewear, such as safety glasses, and includes a housing, a wipe compartment, a tank of cleaning or disinfecting liquid, a dispensing arrangement, and a control arrangement. The control arrangement is designed to automatically activate the dispensing arrangement when a user places the eyewear under a nozzle. The dispensing arrangement dispenses a mist of cleaning and disinfecting liquid to treat the eyewear, which then can be dried off with wipes retrieved from the wipe compartment.
Claims12
An automatic eyewear treatment station comprising:
- a housing mountable to a wall or support structure with an upper housing portion disposed vertically higher than a lower housing portion;
- a tank being disposed in said housing and configured to store treatment media to be used by a user to treat eyewear;
- a wipe compartment being disposed in said upper housing portion and configured to store wipes to be used by a user to dry treated eyewear;
- a dispensing arrangement being disposed in said lower housing portion and operatively connected to said tank;
- said dispensing arrangement comprising a pump and a nozzle being disposed in and to partially project out of said lower housing portion and configured to dispense treatment media out of said housing;
- a control arrangement being disposed in said housing and configured to control the operation of said dispensing arrangement;
- said control arrangement comprising a sensor being configured and disposed to sense for the presence of eyewear under said nozzle;
- and
- said control arrangement being configured to automatically activate said dispensing arrangement upon said sensor detecting the presence of eyewear under said nozzle to dispense treatment media out of said nozzle and onto eyewear disposed under said nozzle and to automatically deactivate said dispensing arrangement upon dispensing of a predetermined amount of treatment media or upon said sensor not detecting the presence of eyewear under said nozzle.
6 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.