| 摘要 |
<p>A method and apparatus for the treatment of contaminated medical waste, including solid and non-solid, potentially infectious materials, permits the collection of such medical waste at the point and at the time of its generation in a solid container (201), which is subsequently transported for pulverization, disinfection and safe disposal. A separate portable processing chamber (151), with an integral means to treat medical waste, is used at locations remote from its power unit for the collection of medical waste and then moved to the location of the power unit to drive the waste-treatment means within the chamber. The separate waste collection and treatment assembly includes a closable chamber (197), a rotating waste treatment system (161) that is rotatably carried within the chamber by bearings (166, 167) spaced on a supporting cylinder carried by the chamber bottom, a plurality of pivotable blades (181) that are carried by a rotating system and have a configuration which, in cooperation with surfaces of the chamber walls (152), provide effective disintegration, pulverization and blunting of solid waste and cutting and mincing of non-solid waste, and the circulation and disinfection of the medical waste within the separate chamber.</p> |
