US 8,545,461 B2Granted

Automatic body spray system excess liquid removal

AssigneeSunless, Inc.

InventorsScott Thomason, Nicholas J Mastandrea

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Abstract

An embodiment of an apparatus for extracting excess liquid in a human body spray system includes a spray booth defining a booth volume. The spray booth includes a base configured to support the human body and a column having walls extending vertically from the base and at least one vent opening disposed on a bottom half portion of the column on at least one of the walls. The walls form a hollow interior of the column. The apparatus for extracting excess liquid in a human body spray system further includes an extraction fan disposed within the hollow interior adjacent to a top half portion of the column and configured to create a low pressure volume within the hollow interior and draw air flow and at least some of the excess mist from the booth volume through the at least one vent opening.

Claims10

Dependent claims

An apparatus for extracting excess mist in a human body spray system, comprising:

a spray booth including:
a base configured to support the human body,
a spray column,
a mist extraction column disposed in an opposite position in the spray booth relative to the spray column, where the mist extraction column has a hollow interior and includes a substantially vertical first wall that forms at least a portion of an interior surface of the spray booth, the substantially vertical first wall having a plurality of vent openings disposed thereon, and
a plurality of partial side walls disposed adjacent to the mist extraction column;
a filter disposed within the hollow interior of the mist extraction column;
and an extraction fan disposed within the hollow interior of the mist extraction column;
wherein the filter is disposed between the plurality of vent openings and the extraction fan;
and wherein the extraction fan is configured to draw air flow and at least some of the excess mist through the plurality of vent openings and through the filter.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/837,134Filed 15 Jul 2010 · continuation
Priority: 5 Jan 2006
Published: US 2010/0291847 A118 Nov 2010
Granted: 1 Oct 2013
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

A61M 35/25
Non-portable devices, e.g. spraying booths: specially adapted for the application of sunscreen, tanning or self-tanning lotions
A45D 2200/057
Means for supplying liquid to the outlet of the container: spray nozzles; Generating atomised liquid
B05B 7/2405
Apparatus to be carried on or by a person, e.g. by hand; Apparatus comprising containers fixed to the discharge device: using an atomising fluid…
B05B 7/2497
An atomising fluid, e.g. a gas, being supplied to the discharge device: several liquids from different sources being supplied to the discharge device

Family

Application60/756,304Us provisional application · filed 5 Jan 2006
Application11/650,323Parent of this continuation · filed 5 Jan 2007
Application12/546,056Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Aug 2009
US 2010/0291847 A1Pre-grant publication · published 18 Nov 2010
US 8,201,288 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2007/0197982 A1Published application
US 2009/0314857 A1Published application
US 8,545,461 B2This patent

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