Patent ID: 11918696
Assignee: JUSTRITE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, L.L.C.
Field: Electrical machinery, apparatus, energy (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  B  F  E | IPC A  F

Claim 14:
15. A method of disinfecting an interior compartment of a safety cabinet, the safety cabinet including an enclosure and at least one door, the enclosure including an inner shell and an outer shell in a double walled configuration, the inner shell defining an interior compartment and a compartment opening, the interior compartment being accessible via the compartment opening, and the at least one door being rotatably mounted to the enclosure and moveable over a range of travel between an open position and a closed position, the at least one door adapted to occlude the compartment opening of the enclosure when the at least one door is in the closed position, the method comprising:
electrically connecting an interior lighting system disposed in the interior compartment to an external electrical component via an electrical connection disposed through the inner shell and the outer shell of the enclosure and configured to isolate the interior compartment from an exterior environment, the interior lighting system including at least one ultraviolet light source;
attaching the at least one ultraviolet light source to a shelf adjustably mounted to the enclosure within the interior compartment in one of a range of indexed vertical positions;
removably connecting the at least one ultraviolet light source to the external electrical component via an electrical connector mounted to the shelf and electrically connected to the at least one light source and to a conductive strip mounted to the enclosure, the conductive strip being disposed along a vertical axis and including a plurality of sockets disposed over the range of indexed vertical positions, and the electrical connector removably connected to the conductive strip via a respective one of a plurality of sockets of the conductive strip;
occluding the compartment opening by moving each of the at least one door to the closed position; and
activating, for a predetermined period of time sufficient to reduce at least one of a microorganism and a pathogen disposed within the interior compartment, the at least one ultraviolet light source of the interior lighting system.