US 12,226,540 B2
Particle size and wetness reduction devices for fog generating equipment
D. P. Tyson Bernthal, St. Augustine, FL (US)
Assigned to D. P. Tyson Bernthal, St. Augustine, FL (US)
Filed by D. P. Tyson Bernthal, St. Augustine, FL (US)
Filed on Aug. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/233,319.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/460,868, filed on Apr. 20, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/446,367, filed on Feb. 17, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0285824 A1, Aug. 29, 2024
Int. Cl. B01D 45/08 (2006.01); A61L 2/22 (2006.01); B05B 7/00 (2006.01); B05B 7/24 (2006.01); B05B 17/06 (2006.01)
CPC A61L 2/22 (2013.01) [B01D 45/08 (2013.01); A61L 2202/11 (2013.01); A61L 2202/15 (2013.01); A61L 2202/25 (2013.01); B05B 7/0012 (2013.01); B05B 7/2491 (2013.01); B05B 17/0615 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A structure for receiving fog particles from a fog-producing device, the structure comprising:
a tubular body defining a hollow interior and a first and a second opposing open ends, the first and second open ends providing access to the hollow interior, the first open end for attaching to the fog-producing device and for receiving fog particles therefrom;
a plurality of spaced-apart redirectors mounted on opposing surfaces of a relatively planar substrate, the substrate and the plurality of spaced-apart redirectors disposed within the hollow interior, the plurality of spaced-apart redirectors arranged to create nonlinear fog flow pathways on the opposing surfaces, fog particles travel along nonlinear fog flow pathways on the opposing surfaces as the plurality of spaced-apart redirectors repeatedly after a direction of fog flow and fog flow does not reverse direction between the first and second open ends, fog particles-striking or passing proximate the plurality of spaced-apart redirectors, wherein fog particles of a first size having a first inertia follow nonlinear fog flow pathways and exit the structure at the second open end for treating a target, and fog particles of a second size having a second inertia collide with a redirector, fall out of nonlinear fog flow pathways, and do not exit the structure at the second open end, wherein a first size is smaller than a second size and a first inertia is less than a second inertia.