Patent ID: 8499489
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: A01M

Abstract:
1. A method for killing organisms and removing of toxic substances from an enclosure, which comprises the steps of: providing at least one ingress duct communicating with said interior of said enclosure; heating an environmentally acceptable gas to a temperature lethal to organisms comprising insects and at least one of fungi and bacteria; directing said heated gas into said enclosure through said at least one ingress duct for a time sufficient to raise the temperature of said enclosure to said lethal temperature to thereby kill said organisms; applying a pressure differential to said enclosure relative to atmospheric pressure to draw said heated gas out of said enclosure; filtering said heated gas to remove from said enclosure any fine particulate remains from said organisms that are suspended in the heated gas; and exhausting said filtered heated gas from said enclosure to an external environment such that the particulate remains are substantially removed from said heated gas before its exhaustion.