GERMICIDAL TOILETRY CABINET FOR DIFFERENT PERSONAL HYGIENE ITEMS

• US 3,776,694 A
• Filed: 04/03/1972
• Issued: 12/04/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Leo C. Leittl
• Original Assignee: Leo C. Leittl
• Inventors: Leittl, Leo C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Richman, Barry S.
• Application Number:
  US05/240,396
• Time in Patent Office: 610 Days
• Field of Search: 21/12R,DIG.2,83,88,54R,53,74R,74A,105 312/206,209
• US Class Current: 422/24
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 2/10 Ultraviolet radiation
• CPC Class Codes: A61L 9/20 Ultraviolet radiation

Abstract

A cabinet housing having a swingable door and an electric switch actuated by the door and an electric lamp disposed within the housing. The housing has openings for the emission of rays of light, and the lamp is actuated by opening and closing the door. A tooth brush rack is mounted in the housing, and another support member, for tooth water picks, combs, and the like, is also mounted in the housing for receiving these other items, all for sterilization of the tooth brushes and water picks and like items, by the action of the germicidal lamp, a unitary piece extends through the width of the cabinet at the top thereof and provides the rack, and a bracket is affixed to the unitary piece and supports the electric switch and shields the electric switch from being approached exteriorally of the switch.

Claims

1. A germicidal cabinet for receiving ahd sterilizing various personal hygiene items including tooth brushes, comprising a cabinet housing including a back wall and opposite side walls and a top wall and a bottom wall and having an open front opposite said back wall and defined by all the other said walls, a door hinged onto said housing for swinging movement on said housing for closing over said open front of said housing, a unitary piece attached to said cabinet and disposed therein and having a first portion extending through the upper portion of said cabinet from adjacent said top wall and along said open front in a location spaced from said back wall to form a compartment with said top wall and said back wall, said first portion of said unitary piece including a horizontally extending por-tion spanning the space to said back wall and closing off the base of said compartment and with said horizontally extending portion having an opening therein, and said unitary piece including a second portion extending along said rear wall and being attached thereto, and said unitary piece including a third portion terminating in an end extending away from said rear wall and across the central axis of said opening and into the center of said cabinet, a tooth brush rack included in said extending end of said third portion and being spaced from said horizontally extending portion and extending between said opposite side walls for the entire width of said cabinet for suspendingly supporting tooth brushes in said cabinet, an electric switch and an electric ballast disposed in said compartment, and a germicidal lamp electrically connected to said switch and extending into said compartment through said opening in said unitary piece horizontally extending portion and being positioned spaced above said rack and being removable through said opening for replacement of said lamp.

2. The germicidal cabinet as claimed in claim 1, wherein said opposite side walls and said top wall have louvers therein opening into said compartment for flow of air through said compartment and out of said cabinet.

3. The germicidal cabinet as claimed in claim 1, including a bracket attached to said unitary piece and disposed within said compartment, and said switch being mounted on said bracket and disposed to be actuated by swinging movement of said door.

4. The germicidal cabinet as claimed in claim 3, wherein said cabinet has a hole in said rear wall adjacent each said opposite side wall for mounting said cabinet, and said bracket has a portion extending across a line extending from said switch to the nearer one of said holes, to shield against access to said switch through said hole.

5. The germicidal cabinet as claimed in claim 1, wherein said extending end of said third portion is bent upwardly and terminates with said rack being at the terminal end thereof, and the upward bend being located directly beneath said lamp and arranged to present a trough for the reception of items to be sterilized.

6. The germicidal cabinet as claimed in claim 5, including a support member mounted on one of said opposite side walls at a location below the level of said rack and frontwardly of said rack and being spaced from said back wall, for supporting an item in the path of direct rays from said lamp.