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Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 1993

Filed:

Mar. 12, 1992
Applicant:
Inventor:

Joel Hughes, Wilmington, NC (US);

Assignee:

Container Products Corp., Wilmington, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
376310 ; 376313 ; 134 21 ; 976D / ; 252626 ;
Abstract

A decontaminating apparatus for cleaning radioactive contaminated surfaces and recovering for disposal the contaminated material, including a first recovery unit comprising a vacuum creating source in association with a second recovery unit that filters and demists the vacuum recovered contaminated material, and a third recovery unit that initially vacuum recovers the contaminated material and separates the same into fluid and air borne contaminates. The second and third recovery units each having a critical mass control responsive to the volume of contaminated material vacuumed from the surface being decontaminated.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Hughes, Joel. (1993). Decontamination apparatus (U.S. Patent No. 5178823). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/5178823

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