Adhesive Brush for Complete Removal of Acari and Bacteria from Fabrics
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for removing acari, bacteria, moths, ticks, and fleas from fabrics and animal hair are not effective in completely eliminating these organisms and their secretion products, leading to recurring infestations and requiring expensive chemical treatments that may exacerbate allergies.
Innovation Solution
Development of adhesive compositions with high plasticizer concentrations to create a very fluid adhesive polymer, combined with acaricidal, bactericidal, and insecticidal active ingredients, applied in adhesive brushes to ensure complete removal and repellency of these organisms from fabrics and hair.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If conventional adhesive brushes are used to remove organisms from fabrics, then large-sized residues can be removed, but small-sized organisms like bacteria, acari, moths, fleas or ticks cannot be completely removed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the viscosity parameter of the adhesive by incorporating plasticizers in specific amounts (1-100 parts by weight based on base copolymer). This parameter modification allows the adhesive to become sufficiently fluid to capture small organisms while maintaining adhesive properties for complete removal.
Solution Approach 2:
The adhesive composition is formulated as a composite material containing base copolymer, plasticizers, and optional active ingredients. This composite structure combines the adhesive properties of the polymer with the fluidity-enhancing plasticizers to achieve both complete removal and capture of small organisms.
2Reliability
If chemical compounds like permetrine-based sprays are used to prevent acari, then acari-repellency is achieved, but allergy symptoms may worsen due to reactions with acari secretion products
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a disposable adhesive brush that physically removes acari and deposits them on the adhesive layer. This single-use approach eliminates the need for persistent chemical treatments, avoiding allergic reactions while providing effective acari removal and repellency.
Solution Approach 2:
The adhesive brush extracts and removes acari, their secretion products, and carcasses from the fabric surface, placing them on the adhesive layer. This physical extraction eliminates the source of allergic reactions rather than using chemical compounds that may exacerbate allergies.
3Reliability
If expensive acari-preventing treatments are used, then some prophylactic effect is achieved, but complete removal of acari colonies and their secretion products is not accomplished
Solution Approach 1:
The adhesive brush combines removal and prophylactic functions in a single operation. The adhesive layer captures not only live acari but also their secretion products and carcasses, providing both immediate removal and long-term prophylactic effect by eliminating all allergenic materials from the fabric.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The adhesive compositions effectively remove and prevent the re-infestation of acari, bacteria, moths, ticks, and fleas, with high removal efficiency and no residual left on fabrics or animal hair, while providing acari-repellency, thus addressing the limitations of existing technologies.
Implementation Method 1
containing high concentrations of a plasticizer so as to make the adhesive polymer very fluid thus reducing the viscosity thereof
Implementation Method 2
adhesive compositions capable of completely removing acari, bacteria, moths, ticks, fleas from fabrics and animal's hair
Data Source
AI summary
An adhesive composition capable of completely removing acari, bacteria, moths, ticks, fleas containing high concentrations of plasticizer, so that to make the adhesive polymer contained therein very fluid to allow said micro-organisms to be removed while, at the same time, leaving no residual on the fabric. The adhesive composition object of the present invention may optionally contain active ingredients which are released from the adhesive composition during the step of removing the organisms from the fabric or the animal's hair in a concentration so that the taking root of new colonies of organisms of the same type as those removed, on the fabric or animal's hair, is not promoted. These adhesive compositions properly applied on suitable supports are used for preparing adhesive brushes.