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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 1988
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1986
Eugene Letner, Montgomery, AL (US);
Benco Industries, Inc., Fort Deposit, AL (US);
Abstract
A portable knockdown decontamination chamber is disclosed for use with a liquid decontaminant supply to apply a confined liquid decontaminant wash to a subject located in the chamber. A base of the chamber includes an upwardly opening channel formed generally around its periphery. A wall construction having arcuate corner panels and planar panels therebetween includes a lower edge shaped to fit in the channel so that the corner and planar panels are supported on the base with the lower edge residing in the channel. The base is formed by a subbase and a liner that have interacting rib structures, and the ribs are configured to provide a drainage network so that liquid accumulating in the channel is drained into a sump formed at one end of the base. A top has a downwardly opening groove extending generally around its periphery for receiving an upper edge of the wall construction so that the top can be placed in a supporting relationship on the wall construction. The configuration of the arcuate corner panels and the channel and groove in the base and top produces a coupling of the wall construction between the base and top that resists horizontal loading in all directions.