Patent ID: 7784501
Filing Date: 2010-08-31
Classification: C01B,F17C,H01M,Y02E,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A system for distributing a product releasably incorporated within a carrier to a user, and for recovering spent from a user, the system comprising: a mobile delivery vehicle, the vehicle comprising a first storage vessel for receiving and storing fresh from a fresh delivery means, and for receiving and storing spent from a spent delivery means, the storage vessel including means for separating fresh from spent; a first user, the first user comprising a fresh storage vessel for receiving, storing, and delivering fresh, and further comprising a first spent storage vessel for receiving, storing, and delivering of spent; a fresh transferring means for linking the first storage vessel and the fresh storage vessel of the first user for transferring fresh to the first user; a spent transferring means for linking the first storage vessel and the spent storage vessel of the first user for transferring spent from the first user, a second user, the second user comprising a second fresh storage vessel for receiving and delivering fresh from the mobile delivery vehicle, and further comprising a second spent storage vessel for receiving, storing, and delivering spent to the mobile delivery vehicle; a contamination storage vessel, an intermediate spent storage vessel wherein the intermediate spent storage vessel is disposed in the communicable connection between the spent removal apparatus and the spent storage vessel, wherein the intermediate spent storage vessel further includes a controllable communicable connection for selective transfer of spent from the intermediate storage vessel to the contamination storage vessel or the spent storage vessel; and, wherein the fresh transferring means and spent transferring means are controlled so as to load fresh onto and remove spent from the user on a substantially equal exchange basis.