Patent ID: 6839982
Filing Date: 2005-01-11
Classification: A47K,A61M

Abstract:
1. In a combination dryer and atomized medicinal liquid apparatus for feet comprising a housing formed of a top portion perpendicularly depending from four side walls and a base portion perpendicularly depending from said four side walls and which collectively form an internal cavity; two recessed footprints forming concavities in said top portion; plurality of air discharge outlets formed in said top portion for discharging a pressurized stream of warm air in conjunction with an atomized stream of antifungal or other medicinal liquid upward onto the sole area of the user's feet; a series of air intake ports formed within said sidewalls and in fluid communication with said discharge outlets, said air intake ports capable of collecting ambient room air for subsequent discharge through the air discharge outlets; a motorized blower unit housed within said housing and in fluid communication with said intakes ports for air intake and in fluid communication with said discharge outlets for air discharge; electrical resistance heaters in thermal communication with said blower unit discharge for heating discharged air; and a pressurized canister of medicinal liquid located inside of a canister holder internal to said housing such that contents of said pressurized canister are released under the control of an electrically operated solenoid valve, where it travels through a section of tubing and is discharged through an atomizing nozzle, said atomizing nozzle thereby producing an atomized stream of medicinal liquid which is released at the end of a transfer tube and subsequently transferred into a chamber; the improvement comprising a shoe and boot dryer attachment that sits atop said dryer and atomized medicinal liquid apparatus for feet and is held in place by frictional contact only, said shoe and boot dryer attachment covering all said air discharge outlets such that the entire air output flow of said dryer and atomized medicinal liquid apparatus for feet is routed through said shoe and boot dryer attachment.