Patent ID: 8012339

Claim:
A hand-held spray bottle comprising: a tank for holding a supply of liquid to be treated; a functional generator carried by the hand-held spray bottle, which receives the liquid from the tank and comprises an anode chamber and a cathode chamber separated by an ion exchange membrane and which electrochemically activates the liquid that is passed through the functional generator to produce an anolyte liquid in the anode chamber and a catholyte liquid in the cathode chamber; a flow path, which combines an entire flow of the anolyte liquid produced from the anode chamber with an entire flow of the catholyte liquid produced from the cathode chamber to form a blended anolyte and catholyte liquid along a single path, without separate storage of the anolyte liquid or catholyte liquid along the flow path, downstream of the functional generator; a spray output, which is coupled to the flow path and dispenses the blended anolyte and catholyte liquid as an output spray; and a pump, which is coupled to the flow path and configured to pump the liquid from the tank, through the functional generator and out the spray output.