Personal decontamination apparatus and method

Personal decontamination apparatus comprising:

• a housing containing first and second chambers;
• the first chamber containing water with an air space and the second chamber containing concentrated decontamination fluid;
• means for pressurizing the water within said first chamber, said second chamber being vented;
• a first dip tube extending into and out of said first chamber having a first open end within the water contained therein and a second end terminating in a nozzle;
• said first dip tube having a venturi section outside of said first chamber;
• a second dip tube having an open first end within second chamber immersed in said concentrated decontamination fluid and a second end terminating in a throat portion of said venturi section;
• a valve in said first dip tube between said venturi section and said first chamber;
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• a lever for opening said valve to cause water to flow from said first chamber through said venturi section and out through said nozzle entraining decontamination fluid from said second chamber.

A zero leakage long term storage dispenser for delivering an aerosol containing decontamination fluid comprising;

• a hermetically sealed housing filled with decontamination fluid, an upper end of said housing having bellows type convolutions formed as part of an outer wall thereof;
• a dip tube within said housing having an upper end attached to a top wall of said housing and extending downwardly with a lower end of said dip tube open adjacent a bottom wall of said housing;
• a support tube within said housing attached to said bottom wall of said housing extending upwardly, an upper end of said support tube providing support for a propellant tank mounted above said support tube, the upper end of said support tube having a first hollow piercing needle extending upwardly, a pointed end of said first hollow piercing needle being aligned with and spaced from a sealed end of said propellant tank;
• a cap enclosing the top section of said housing and threadably engaged with the outer wall of said housing below said bellows type convolutions;
• a discharge valve mounted outside on said cap having a second hollow piercing needle extending down through said cap terminating above said top wall of said housing and aligned with said dip tube;
• a hose having one end coupled to said discharge valve and a second end coupled to a nozzle, so that rotation of said cap will compress said bellows type convolutions sequentially first to cause said second hollow piercing needle to pierce the top wall of said housing thereby providing communication with said decontamination fluid and then causing said first piercing needle to pierce the sealed end of said propellant tank releasing propellant directly into said housing for driving said decontamination fluid up through said second hollow piercing needle through said discharge valve, said hose and said nozzle.

A shower fixture for delivering decontamination fluid on demand comprising:

• an adapter mounted between a shower head and a water supply pipe;
• said adapter having a passageway between said shower head and said water supply for delivering water to said shower head;
• said passageway having a venturi section with a siphon port;
• a bottle containing said decontamination fluid attached to said adapter and communicating with said siphon port so that flow of water to said shower head will draw contamination fluid from said bottle into a stream of water flowing through said venturi section;
• a coupling assembly for attaching said bottle to said adapter;
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• said coupling assembly having a latch for attaching to or releasing said bottle from said adapter.

A personal decontamination device for delivering decontamination fluid to the skin of a user comprising:

• a hand-held fluid output housing;
• a source of cleansing decontamination fluid;
• a fluid flow controller;
• a user-activated activator communicating with said source of cleansing decontamination fluid and said fluid flow controller;
• said user-activated activator releasing said cleansing decontamination fluid from an output source until deactivation of said user-activated activator.