Patent ID: 9050570
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: A61L,B01J,B65B,C01B

Abstract:
1. A device for facilitating a chemical reaction comprising: an upper member having a predetermined configuration, said upper member being rigid and not reconfigurable thereby maintaining the configuration of dry sodium chlorite disposed into an upper chamber, resulting in a continuously full upper chamber of said sodium chlorite; a lower member having a predetermined configuration, said lower member being rigid and not reconfigurable thereby maintaining the configuration of dry acid disposed into a lower chamber, resulting in a continuously full lower chamber of said dry acid, said maintained configurations of said sodium chlorite and said acid cooperating to provide consistent chlorine dioxide generation irrespective of packet orientation; a dissolvable member disposed between and ultimately enclosed by said upper and lower members such that said upper and lower chambers have substantially equal volumes, whereupon, said upper and lower members are joined, thereby sealing said upper and lower chambers and enabling said joined upper and lower members to be disposed in water such that said lower member engages the water first, said joined upper and lower members ultimately swelling with absorbed water until all water has been absorbed; and a holder member for receiving a predetermined quantity at water and said joined upper and lower members with said dissolvable member there between, whereby said lower and upper member configurations cooperate to allow water to engage said dry acid mixture in the lower chamber followed by the now acidic liquid catalyst in the lower member being absorbed by the upper member through periphery contact at the sewn edges and engaging the substantially dry reactant in the upper chamber beginning the conversion of sodium chlorite to chlorine dioxide and to ultimately form slurries that completely dissolve the dissolvable member, thereby allowing said slurries to engage in the continuous reaction between said acid slurry and sodium chlorite slurry to produce chlorine dioxide gas until all chemicals have been exhausted, said chlorine dioxide gas passing through said upper and lower members and into a space to be disinfected and/or deodorized, said upper and lower members being dimensioned and configured to cooperate with selected quantities of dry sodium chlorite and dry acid mixtures to generate a predetermined quantity of chlorine dioxide gas over a predetermined time period, said predetermined quantity of water being absorbed relatively quickly by said lower member, then absorbed by said upper member through sewn edges after said joined lower and upper members are disposed in said water.