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Footwear cleaner and disinfectant

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NSWCCD

An apparatus for cleaning and disinfecting footwear or the foot of a user. More particularly, a user controlled multi-functioning device that performs both cleaning and disinfecting of footwear upon contact. The cleaning and disinfecting apparatus includes one or more cleaning rollers physically contacting the footwear or foot and one or more disinfectant sources, which may be radiation sources that emits UV rays e.g., or charge particle source that emits a cold plasma blast.

Inventors: 
Gulian, Ana M.; Gulian, Paul M.
Patent Number: 
Technical domain: 
Other Fields
FIle Date: 
2011-06-16
Grant Date: 
2014-01-21
Grant time: 
950 days
Grant time percentile rank: 
17
Claim count percentile rank: 
2
Citations percentile rank: 
1
'Cited by' percentile rank: 
1
Assignee: 
US NAVY