STORAGE AND DRYING CABINET

• US 3,683,638 A
• Filed: 10/05/1970
• Issued: 08/15/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: George S. Devon
• Original Assignee: George S. Devon
• Inventors: Devon, George S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wye, William J.
• Application Number:
  US05/078,113
• Time in Patent Office: 680 Days
• Field of Search: 62/264 34/1 21/54,102,74
• US Class Current: 62/264
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/10 Ultraviolet radiation

Abstract

This disclosure shows a drying and sterilizing cabinet especially suited for use in hospitals. The cabinet is sealed and has a dehumidifying chamber at its rear through which filtered air flows. Bacteria are killed by an arrangement of ultra-violet rays inside the cabinet.

Claims

1. A storage and drying cabinet comprising a cabinet enclosure made up of top, side and rear walls connected together, and a door swingably connected to the front of said cabinet, a grill at the bottom of said cabinet defining a space and a refrigeration unit in said space below said grill, an opening adjacent the top of said rear wall, a screen over said opening supported on said rear wall, and an ultra-violet light supported over said screen, heating means is provided in said space below said grill, an air tube is connected to the outside of said back wall of said cabinet, a refrigerated tube passes through said air tube, the upper end of said air tube being connected to said opening in said upper part of said rear wall, a receptacle at the bottom of said cabinet, the lower end of said tube being connected to an exhaust port in the lower part of said cabinet and blower means at the lower end of said air tube whereby air is drawn from lower part of said cabinet, passes over said refrigerated tube and thereby cools below the dew point and is exhausted into the top of said cabinet while the condensate from said air drains, through said air tube into said receptacle.

2. The cabinet recited in claim 1 wherein two said doors are swingably connected to the front of said cabinet and a central panel is supported between said doors, said doors making sealing engagement with said panel and said cabinet when in closed position, an ultra-violet tube connected to said panel on the inside thereof.

3. The cabinet recited in claim 2 wherein an ultra-violet light tube is fixed to said center panel, and an ultra-violet tube fixed to each side of said cabinet on the inside thereof.

4. The cabinet recited in claim 1 wherein a dehumidifying apparatus is disposed in the bottom of said cabinet and a screen partition separates said dehumidification unit from said cabinet.

5. The cabinet recited in claim 4 wherein said dehumidification unit comprises a filter member dividing a space in the bottom of said cabinet into two parts and an ultra-violet light in one said part and a refrigeration unit in the other said part, a fan associated with said refrigeration unit for drawing air from said cabinet, over said ultra-violet light, and over said refrigeration unit.

6. The cabinet recited in claim 1 wherein spaced tracks being attached at the rear end of said rear wall and extending forwardly therefrom, said spaced tracks having shoulders and clamp means for supporting articles, said clamp means having T-shaped heads slidably supported on said shoulders and slidable forwardly and rearwardly thereon whereby objects supported on said clamps may be moved forwardly or rearwardly in said cabinet.