Systems and apparatus for sanitizing personal protective equipment (ppe)
AssigneeClean Beam, LLC
InventorsChristopher Werfel, Vadim Vain, Mark Cottone
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Abstract
System and apparatus for sanitizing personal protective equipment (PPE) through the use of pulsed ultraviolet (PUV) light within a PUV light area configured to receive the PPE and having a light source to supply the PUV light. The system may further include a control mechanism in communication with the light source and operable to activate and deactivate the PUV light. A protective enclosure (for example, a housing and/or light curtains) houses the PPE and contains the PUV light within the PUV light area when the PUV light is activated. The PUV light has wavelengths in a range of 200 to 1100 nm.
Claims17
A system for sanitizing personal protective equipment (PPE), the system comprising:
- a pulsed ultraviolet (UV) light area configured to receive the PPE and having a light source that emits pulsed UV (PUV) light;
- a control mechanism in communication with the light source and operable to activate and deactivate the PUV light;
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- a protective enclosure that houses the PPE and contains the PUV light within the PUV light area when the PUV light is activated;
- wherein the PUV light is emitted at wavelengths in a range of 200 to 1100 nm and pulsed at a constant energy per pulse.
A system for sanitizing personal protective equipment (PPE), the system comprising:
- a pulsed ultraviolet (PUV) light area configured to receive the PPE and having a light source to supply PUV light;
- a control mechanism in communication with the light source and operable to activate and deactivate the light source;
- a conveyor system that moves the PPE from a loading area, through the PUV light area, and onto an outfeed area;
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- a protective enclosure that houses the PPE and contains the PUV light within the PUV light area when the PUV light is activated, the enclosure containing the light source, being divided into two or more lanes, and containing a manipulation mechanism which rotates the PPE thereby allowing the PUV light to be applied to different sides of the PPE on a single sanitization pass, the light source being positioned in a manner to emit and project the PUV light onto the PPE;
- wherein the PUV light is emitted at wavelengths in a range of 200 to 1100 nm.
An apparatus for sanitizing personal protective equipment (PPE), the apparatus comprising:
- a conveyor upon which the PPE is received for movement through the apparatus, the PPE presenting a first surface thereof when emplaced on the conveyor;
- a source of sanitizing electromagnetic energy which is located so as to irradiate a sanitizing area of the conveyor upon which PPE is received;
- a manipulation mechanism associated with the conveyor in the vicinity of the sanitizing area, the manipulation mechanism engaging with the PPE after the first surface of the PPE has been subjected to the sanitizing energy and reorienting the PPE to thereby expose a second surface of the PPE to the sanitizing energy;
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- a control mechanism, in communication with the conveyor and sanitizing energy, that activates and deactivates the PUV light and operates the conveyor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.