Device for collecting and confining hospital and household waste
AssigneeCaptiva Holding
InventorMichel Lecomte
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device for wrapping contaminant or non-contaminant waste resulting from the medical treatment of humans or animals, as well as household waste. The device shown in FIG. 1 consists of a housing (1) used as a frame supporting a dispenser (2) for a heat-sealable plastic sleeve (3) forming a receptacle in which the waste may be deposited, a driving mechanism (4) for moving the sleeve, a heat-sealing mechanism (5), and a removable storage receptacle (6). The device is characterized in that the size of the wrapping may be selectively adapted to that of the waste objects. The device is useful for confining waste in wrappings that are impervious to volatile fumes, odours and liquids regardless of the position of the wrappings during storage and transport.
Claims8
A device for wrapping waste resulting from human and animal medical care, as well as household waste, comprising:
- a housing having an upper part;
- a dispenser having a heat-sealable plastic sleeve forming a primary waste receptacle;
- a driving mechanism for driving said sleeve, said driving mechanism being disposed underneath said dispenser and comprising:
- at least two friction driving rollers rotating in opposite directions with respect to each other for driving said sleeves, each driving roller comprising a rigid axis of reduced diameter, said axis being coated with a layer of a material with high elastic deformation, said layer having a larger thickness;
- means for applying said rollers on said sleeve with pressure, whereby said contact pressure is maintained when waste within the sleeve passes between said rollers,
- means for rotating said rollers with a given number of rotations;
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- heat sealing pliers for welding said sleeve on a given length and for cutting said sleeve in said welded length whereby the portion of sleeve with the waste tightly contained therein is separated from the rest of the sleeve.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.