CLEANING PARTICULATE MATTER AND CHEMICAL CONTAMINANTS FROM HANDS AND ELASTOMERIC ARTICLES

An apparatus (20) has a hand-cleaning volume (28) sized to receive a gloved or ungloved human hand (30). The apparatus (20) includes a mechanical-cleaning device (32) and a chemical-cleaning device (60), operated sequentially to remove particles and chemical contaminants such as organics. The mechan...

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Hauptverfasser:	FOSTER, MARVIN, STEWART, THERESE, SIAS, RALPH M, SIAS, HEATH E
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng ; fre
Schlagworte:	CHEMICAL ASPECTS OF BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, ORSURGICAL ARTICLES CLEANING CLEANING IN GENERAL DISINFECTION, STERILISATION, OR DEODORISATION OF AIR HUMAN NECESSITIES HYGIENE MATERIALS FOR BANDAGES, DRESSINGS, ABSORBENT PADS, OR SURGICALARTICLES MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR STERILISING MATERIALS OR OBJECTS INGENERAL PERFORMING OPERATIONS PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL TRANSPORTING
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Zusammenfassung:	An apparatus (20) has a hand-cleaning volume (28) sized to receive a gloved or ungloved human hand (30). The apparatus (20) includes a mechanical-cleaning device (32) and a chemical-cleaning device (60), operated sequentially to remove particles and chemical contaminants such as organics. The mechanical-cleaning device (32) has a pressurized gas source (34) positioned to direct a flow of pressurized activated gas into the hand-cleaning volume (28). The chemical-cleaning device (60) has an activating nebulizer (62) operable to emit an activated cleaning mist into the hand-cleaning volume (28) so that the activated cleaning mist contacts the hand (30) in the hand-cleaning volume (28). The hand (30) is cleaned by directing a flow of pressurized ionized gas over the hand (30), and thereafter flowing a mist of activated cleaning solution over the hand (30). The cleaning solution preferably includes hydrogen peroxide. The cleaning may be applied to other elastomeric articles as well.