| 摘要 |
An incentive-based grocery cart washing and disinfecting system including a consumer special-offer coupon applying apparatus, for use in a batch or continuo us process comprising a housing having at least one pipe manifold with nozzles posi tioned therein to provide at least one treatment zone selected from pre-wash, wash, dis infecting, and rinse zones. In addition, blown air water-stripping/drying zones may be prov ided, with a heating source to assist drying. Following drying, a strip of specially a dapted grocery coupons is optionally applied to the grocery cart handle, so that the co upons can be redeemed by customers during their subsequent shopping. The housing is genera lly a linear tunnel permitting access of soiled carts at one end and removal of the cl ean, disinfected carts at the other end. A cart pusher system may be employed to tran sport the carts through the tunnel either singly or in nested groups. A convenient antimic robial disinfecting solution is a water solution of hypochlorite. A single zone system is disclosed in which in a selected, optionally preprogrammed, sequence of application of pre -wash, wash, rinse, and disinfecting fluids are delivered to selected surfaces of the c art, followed by blown air, preferably heated, for stripping/drying,. The coupon strip compris es a leader portion and a coupon portion, and the leader can be wrapped and fixed aro und the grocery cart handle manually or by means of the automated machinery described. T he system of the invention may be a fixed or mobile system, with the use preferably being on site at stores.
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