Patent ID: 7901642
Filing Date: 2011-03-08
Classification: A61L

Abstract:
1. A sanitizing and/or disinfecting apparatus for spraying a sanitizing and/or disinfecting chemical including alcohol into a target space, comprising: a spray gun having an end nozzle; a chemical container containing the chemical, attached to said spray gun; a gas cylinder filled with a compressed carbon dioxide gas as a carrier gas; a pressure reducing valve, attached near an outlet of said gas cylinder, for decompressing the gas discharged from the outlet to a pressure between 10-80 Mpa; and a gas hose directly connected to the pressure reducing valve and the spray gun, wherein the spray gun sprays the chemical into the target space by a function of the carrier gas injected from the end nozzle, the spray gun, the end nozzle and the gas hose have dimensions that permit a feed rate of the gas that does not cause said carbon dioxide gas to freeze due to decompressing in the pressure reducing valve during continuous spray for at least 15 minutes wherein an area of a liquid jet orifice is 36% as large as an area of a gas jet orifice.