Patent ID: 6623351
Filing Date: 2003-09-23
Classification: A47K,E04H

Abstract:
A method of providing decontamination and collective protection to personnel exposed to contamination comprising:providing a contamination control area of air-tight plastic material for decontaminating personnel and equipment, providing a toxic free area of air-tight plastic material, connecting said toxic free area to said contamination control area through an air lock with air blowing from said toxic free area to said contamination control area, maintaining said toxic free area at an air pressure greater than atmospheric, and greater than the air pressure in said contamination control area, said air pressure being from a filtered, positive pressure source free of contaminants, thereby causing a flow contaminant-free air from the toxic free area into the contamination control area, and toward the source of contamination, decontamination occurring at the downstream end of said airflow, and admitting personnel to said toxic free area after decontamination in said contamination control area.