Patent Application
20220280670
In modern time, cleansing the surface of a commonly used object is an essential procedure, in order to prevent the spread of diseases. However, for businesses within the retail industry, sanitizing the surfaces of shopping carts, baskets, and wheelchairs, is an extensive process that demands large volumes of manual labor to ensure proper execution and public safety, especially in unique times of a COVID pandemic. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem.
An apparatus or system is to simplify the process of sanitizing shopping carts, wheelchairs, baskets and other commonly used objects. A system, that limits the amount of manpower and manual labor. There have been no products available as original equipment or as an aftermarket to address this problem either. There exists a need for a device and a system that is not being met by any known or disclosed device or system of present.
The main purpose of the Portable Sanitizer Spritzier Station is to provide an efficient and prompt system of thoroughly sanitizing mobile vessels, specifically, shopping carts and wheelchairs. The Portable Sanitizer Spritzier Station is designed to alleviate the burden of hand-cleaning individual shopping carriers by sanitizing numerous items at once.
A sanitizing station as disclosed includes an undercarriage of frontward and backward motion rollers and sidewards rollers configured to ambulate the station in a first mode and to convey carts there through in a second mode and to collect used sanitizer for recycle and refuse. The disclosure also includes an upper structure of clear side panels and clear tarp ends and inside guide rails between conveyor belts and a sanitizer pipe network directing sanitizer upward from a floor thereof and downward from a ceiling thereof. The disclosure further includes a controller configured to determine one of the first and the second modes and to determine a time limit for the sanitizer to be sprayed through the sanitizer pipes and to control the rollers and conveyor belts.
Throughout the description, similar reference numbers may be used to identify similar elements depicted in multiple embodiments. Although specific embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated, the invention is not to be limited to the specific forms or arrangements of parts so described and illustrated. The scope of the invention is to be defined by the claims appended hereto and their equivalents.
Reference will now be made to exemplary embodiments illustrated in the drawings and specific language will be used herein to describe the same. It will nevertheless be understood that no limitation of the scope of the disclosure is thereby intended. Alterations and further modifications of the inventive features illustrated herein and additional applications of the principles of the inventions as illustrated herein, which would occur to one skilled in the relevant art and having possession of this disclosure, are to be considered within the scope of the invention.
Throughout the present disclosure, the term spritzier and ‘spray’ are used interchangeably.
The Portable Sanitizer Spritzier Station features a rectangular shape and is constructed from reliable plexiglass, granting an inclusive view of the sanitization process. A durable plastic tarp panel is positioned above the entrance and exit section of the system, providing a simple yet protected access to objects of various sizes managed within. The product is comprised of pipes carrying disinfectant fluids and sprayers to effectively project the cleaning material onto the objects in an effective and liberal manner, covering all exposed areas. The Portable Sanitizer Spritzier Station is also equipped with a guide rail constructed from high-quality metal to secure placement of the items funneled through the unit. Three novel conveyor belts line the Portable Sanitizer Spritzer Station, supporting the decontamination of several items at once, with the conveyor belts powered by sturdy cylinders and rollers to ensure a leveled and uninterrupted transition. Furthermore, the Portable Sanitizer Spritzier Station can be programmed to operate for a set amount of time via the control box. The Portable Sanitizer Spritzier Station helps in preventing disease transmission and increasing customer satisfaction.
Although the operations of the method(s) herein are shown and described in a particular order, the order of the operations of each method may be altered so that certain operations may be performed in an inverse order or so that certain operations may be performed, at least in part, concurrently with other operations. In another embodiment, instructions or sub-operations of distinct operations may be implemented in an intermittent and/or alternating manner.
