HAND CLEANSING/SANITIZING METHOD AND APPARATUS

• US 20100303671A1
• Filed: 06/01/2010
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jerome C. Bertrand
• Original Assignee: Jerome C. Bertrand
• Inventors: Bertrand, Jerome C.
• Application Number:
  US12/791,752
• Publication Number:
  US 20100303671A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 422/29
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/202 Ozone
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/208 Hydrogen peroxide
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/22 Phase substances, e.g. smokes, aerosols or sprayed or atomised substances
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/24 Apparatus using programmed or automatic operation
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/11 Apparatus for generating biocidal substances, e.g. vaporisers, UV lamps
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2202/15 Biocide distribution means, e.g. nozzles, pumps, manifolds, fans, baffles, sprayers
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 1/06 in annular, tubular or hollow conical form
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 12/122 responsive to presence or shape of target B05B12/124 takes precedence

Abstract

Systems and methods for cleansing and/or sanitizing using a gaseous media are disclosed. Various hand cleansing and/or sanitizing formulations can be emanated from a system in a discrete packet of gaseous media such as a vortex ring. A hand cleansing and/or sanitizing formulation can be projected to a hand with excellent accuracy and cohesiveness. The gaseous medium can include a permanent gas and/or vapor, and can have a liquid and/or solid in a stable aerosolized form.

Claims

1-21. -21. (canceled)

22. A hand cleansing-sanitizing system comprising:

a. a first vortex ring delivery module that is leftward directed;

b. a second vortex ring delivery module that is rightward directed;

c. a control module;

d. an ingredient source;

e. a gaseous medium chamber;

and wherein said control module, said ingredient source and said gaseous medium chamber are commonly shared by said first vortex ring delivery module and said second vortex ring delivery module such that an ingredient injected from said ingredient source via said control module into said gaseous medium chamber is delivered by at least one of said first vortex ring delivery module in a left vortex ring to a left hand and of said second vortex ring delivery module in a right vortex ring to a right hand.

23. The hand cleansing-sanitizing system of claim 22, further comprising at least one of a baffle plate in a space to one of said first vortex ring delivery module and said second vortex ring delivery module such that effusion of any excess of said ingredient into an environment is limited while one of said left vortex ring and said right vortex ring is delivered towards a hand inserted in said space.

24. The hand cleansing-sanitizing system of claim 23, further comprising a sensor to detect a hand in said space.

25. The hand cleansing-sanitizing system of claim 22 being wall mounted.

26. The hand cleansing-sanitizing system of claim 22, further comprising a floor stand.

27. The hand cleansing-sanitizing system of claim 26, further comprising:

a. two foreground of said first vortex ring delivery module and said second vortex ring delivery module;

b. two background of said first vortex ring delivery module and said second vortex ring delivery module; and

b. two partitions each of which separating one of said foreground delivery modules from one of said background delivery modules such that said hand cleansing-sanitizing system is capable of concurrently processing a right and a left hand of one person facing said hand cleansing-sanitizing system from the foreground, and a right and a left hand of a second person behind said hand cleansing-sanitizing system facing forward.

28. A method for hand cleansing-sanitizing comprising the steps of:

a. placing a hand in front of a vortex ring delivery module;

b. injecting a cleansing-sanitizing ingredient into a gaseous medium chamber thereby creating a gaseous mixture containing said injected cleansing-sanitizing ingredient;

c. delivering said gaseous mixture in a vortex ring from said vortex ring delivery module towards said hand in a fashion such that said vortex ring dissipates in a brief swirling over said hand thereby reaching various areas including crevices on a front and of a back of said hand and applying said cleansing-sanitizing ingredient thereon.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein said hand is a single hand.

30. The method of claim 29, wherein said vortex ring is a single vortex ring.

31. The method of claim 28, wherein multiple of said vortex ring are delivered during step c).

32. The method of claim 31, wherein said multiple vortex rings are delivered at an interval.

33. The method of claim 28, further comprising following step b) and prior to step c) the step of injecting an indicator ingredient to said gaseous medium, said indicator ingredient being operable to disclose a sufficiency of cleansing-sanitizing at said various areas.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein said indicator ingredient is chromophore that is manifesting a color in bonding with a protein of bioactive contamination.

35. The method of claim 34, further comprising following step c) the steps of injecting a second indicator ingredient to said gaseous medium and delivering a second vortex ring containing said second indicator ingredient, whereby said second indicator ingredient discolors said first indicator ingredient.