JP2009066294A - Denture washing machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that improvement of the result of washing and a washing effect, and compactness or the like are required in conventional denture washing machines though the ones using running water or ultrasonic waves have been proposed. <P>SOLUTION: A denture washing machine where the effect of washing the denture is improved is produced. By arranging a nozzle for jetting the running water toward the outer periphery from the rotation center nozzle of a washing basket where the denture is put in and a nozzle for jetting the running water toward the inside of the washing basket from a nozzle directed toward the inside of the washing basket from the outer periphery, and by washing the denture while rotating the washing basket, the washing effect is greatly improved. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention is a machine that cleans and stores dentures of a plurality of elderly people in a nursing facility in a short time without worrying about infection and uses the power of tap water to reduce the burden on helpers. About.

When a denture is cleaned at a nursing facility, the work performed by a caregiver is harsh.
In other words, during denture cleaning, it is easy to do denture cleaning that is a care helper, without having to get your hands dirty, that the denture of the person being cared for must be cleaned with a toothbrush and toothpaste separately for each individual. A machine is desired.

  The following patent document 1 and the like have proposed that a large amount of dentures should be cleaned with an ultrasonic device, but unfortunately, dentures that are cleaned are made of resin only and attenuate ultrasonic vibration. The teeth will not get dirty. In other words, spectacles, etc., vibrate vigorously with the ultrasonic vibration of the metal used in the spectacles, so that the vibration is transmitted to the plastic part and can be cleaned relatively easily. Since the denture vibrates in the same way as vibration, the denture does not vibrate and the denture does not get dirty as expected. In other words, it is difficult to remove the dirt on the denture, except for a denture with a metal incorporated therein.

  To clean with the use of tap water disclosed in Patent Document 2, it is designed to rotate with a water wheel using the tap water flowing into the drainage groove after hitting the denture, but the dirt of the denture adheres to the water wheel. This is a technology that has problems with the hygiene of washing tanks. It is necessary to consider that the washing tank can be kept clean.

  In addition, there is a cleaning that only taps the tap water from the outside, but because the shape of the denture is complicated, there are many places where the tap water is not exposed to the denture as expected. For this reason, the dentures are not dirty. Therefore, the proposal of this time is to smoothly clean the dentures with complicated shapes by placing the nozzle that fires the denture to be cleaned from the center and the nozzle that fires from the outside to the inside of the cage. To do.

  Conventionally, drainage is used to rotate the basket, so that the effect of rotation of the cleaning tap water nozzle is also delayed. From the beginning, the dentures in the basket were cleaned while rotating by controlling the launch angle from the tap water cleaning nozzle so that the effect of rotation was obtained.

JP 2003-135492 A JP2003-230575A

  Currently, it is said that there are over 5,000 nursing homes nationwide. After dinner, residents gather at the washroom next to the cafeteria or next door. Most of the residents have their dentures cleaned by a helper, except for some of the residents who can brush their teeth with their own brush. In this way, the person who has the denture washed cleans it with a toothbrush after putting it in a person's cup with water removed and passing it to a helper. In the future, the present invention creates a machine that is useful for reducing the burden of care work for cleaning a large number of dentures.

  To clean the dentures, first wash with simple water to remove the candy, then brush the dentures with a toothpaste for each person's dedicated toothbrush. After polishing, put the denture, water and sterilizer, water and disinfectant into a cup for each person and store it until the next morning.

  After dinner, the helper is busy, so the time it takes for the dentures to brush the dentures is at least 1 minute each for the upper and lower jaws, and 15 minutes for brushing the dentures for 6 people. It takes more than 30 minutes when the above is required and further washing with water is added. Moreover, it is very burdensome to work with each person's brush and dentifrice clearly distinguished. In other words, there is a heavy burden, such as not allowing manual cutting work such as making each person's dentifrice common.

  However, even after brushing for such a long time, if you apply plaque stain on the denture and then wash it with water, the stain will appear on the entire denture between the teeth and the back of the denture. You can see that the rest of the plaque remains. Short brushing is not enough. Moreover, it is basically necessary to clean the dentures every day to keep the dentures clean.

  If hand-drawn denture cleaning continues, most of the plaque is bacteria, so if an elderly person with a physical weakness who needs nursing care wears dental plaque with residual plaque, not only bad breath but denture stomatitis, swallowing Risk of systemic diseases such as pneumonia and intestinal infection.

To provide a simple machine that can reliably remove plaque and completely deodorize, sterilize, and store during nighttime bedtime.
In this machine, the cleaning solution containing the fragrance is used to clean the teeth, and then it is applied to the dentures to be cleaned first. While rotating the basket with dentures with the power of water, the stain on the dentures and the cleaning solution previously applied to the dentures are simultaneously washed.

  After the cleaning, put it in a storage cup with the name of the owner of the dentures, and remove the deodorant, disinfect, and remove the deodorant from the nozzle where the stored solution comes out. Apply a disinfectant, storage solution, cover and store in a storage state, and make a machine that can easily care for dentures.

  If this machine is used to care for elderly people, nursing work can be done easily even if there are many people, so the burden of care is reduced.

  Caregivers can always eat clean dentures. In addition, since it is stored with deodorant, disinfectant, and storage solution, infections do not occur, so there is an effect that it can comfortably care for a care recipient.

  FIG. 1 shows a front view of a denture washing machine. Reference numeral 1 denotes a switch box having switches 1A and 1B for controlling electrical components for supplying cleaning liquid, tap water, deodorization, disinfection, and storage liquid, respectively. 2. When 1A is pushed in the washing tank, the washing liquid is applied to the denture with the pump 16, and then the timer works to open the solenoid valve to send tap water and wash it. When the switch 1B is pressed, the pump 17 for sending deodorizing, disinfecting and preserving liquid is operated to deodorize, disinfect and store the denture. FIG. 2 is a plan view of a denture washing machine, and FIG. 3 is provided with a nozzle for storing a deodorizing, disinfecting and preserving liquid on a denture cup. FIG. 3 is a side view of the denture cleaning machine.

FIG. 4 is a front perspective view of a denture cleaning machine, 4 is a denture cleaning liquid tank section, 5 is a deodorizing / disinfecting / storage liquid tank, 2 is a cleaning tank, and 3 is cleaned as described above. This is a place where deodorizing, disinfecting and preserving liquid is sprayed on the denture cup 7.
The lid 19 is a lid for the washing tank and serves to prevent water from splashing when washing in the washing tank 2.

  The part where the deodorant / disinfectant / storage solution is applied after the denture cleaning is set only when the stopper member 24 is installed and the cup lid 7a is opened so that it cannot be set if the cup lid 7a is left in place. I made it.

  FIG. 5 is a rear perspective view of the denture washing machine, and 15 is for washing tap water with a tap water pipe. Reference numeral 16 denotes a drain pipe which drains the waste liquid used in the cleaning. 6 is a handle used to carry the denture washing machine.

  FIG. 5 is a rear perspective view of the denture washing machine, and shows the arrangement of the pump and the electromagnetic valve 15. The pump 16 sends the cleaning liquid. The electromagnetic valve controls tap water. The pump 17 sends deodorizing, disinfecting and preserving liquid. A circuit for controlling these electrical components is a control circuit installed in 18 circuit boxes.

  FIG. 6 is a front view of the denture cleaning tank. 20 forms the outer wall of the washing tub with the outer cylinder of the denture washing tub. Cleaning is performed in the 20 outer walls.

FIG. 7 is a plan view of the cleaning tank, with the center nozzle of 8A in the middle. This 8A functions as the center shaft of the turntable 22. In the rotary table 22 shown in the cross section of a part of the side view of FIG. 8, 13 ball bearings are attached to the rotary plate 22. It is rotatable through 13 ball bearings around an 8A center shaft.
10A and 10B rotation transmission shafts are set on the turntable.

  FIG. 9 is a perspective view of the washing tank, in which the denture basket 9 is placed on the turntable 22. The cleaning liquid ejected from the pump 17 is applied from the 12 nozzles 12A. Details will be described later.

FIG. 10 is a front view of the denture cup 7, which has a handle 7 c, is attached with a lid 7 </ b> A, is rotated with 7 b as a fulcrum, and is inserted into a denture basket 9 that can be freely inserted and removed. Odor / disinfection. Apply the storage solution and store the denture. FIG. 11 is a plan view of the denture cup 7 where the name of the owner of the denture is written.
FIG. 12 is a side view of the denture cup 7 where a name is written on the handle 7c.
In FIG. 13, a denture cage 9 is disposed in the denture cup 7 so as to be freely inserted and removed.

  FIG. 14 is a perspective view of a spray nozzle. 8A has a center nozzle 8B and two side nozzles. Three nozzles are placed in the 8 tap water conduit as shown in the figure. Next, tap water is jetted as a jet stream from eight spray nozzle assemblies through which tap water controlled by a timer or the like passes.

  If the drive of the pump 15 or the electromagnetic valve is pulse-driven to apply the spray liquid when the cleaning liquid is sprayed, the denture can be applied evenly and the cleaning effect is improved.

Since the nozzle of 8B is installed so that tap water is slanted against the denture basket 9, the denture basket is started to rotate by the pressure of the jet of tap water sprayed from the nozzle of 8B.
Further, since the 8A nozzle sprays tap water from the center toward the outer periphery, the denture basket rotates, so the tap water discharged from the 8B nozzle also removes the denture from the inside.
That is, dirt is blown away from the outer circumference toward the outer circumference at 8A and from the outer circumference to the inside at 8B, so that the denture can be dirtied. When tap water is used in this way, there is no miscellaneous bacteria in the tap water, so it is hygienic and economical and has a water pressure, so that the dirt can be removed while rotating the denture basket and has a cleaning ability.

  FIG. 15 is a perspective view of the rotating part of the center nozzle part. A denture cage 9 (not shown in this figure, but depicted in FIG. 8) is placed on a rotating turntable 22. The turntable 22 is provided with 13 ball bearings around the center nozzle of 8A. In the denture cage 9, 10 guide pins first enter the mesh space and rotate integrally with the turntable 22.

FIG. 16 is a front view of the 9 denture cage, and the 9A cage is in the shape of a circular cage and is cleaned in a cage containing a denture to be cleaned. 9B is a stand that partitions the center of the basket.
FIG. 17 is a plan view of the cage, and FIG. 18 is a side view of the cage. FIG. 19 is a perspective view of a denture basket. The denture cage 9 having such a shape can be inserted into and removed from the denture cup. 9c part takes this with a handle and puts it in and out of the denture cup.

  Here, denture cleaning will be described. 9 is a denture basket, and the denture is removed and put into the mesh of the denture basket. Reference numeral 20 denotes a cleaning tank outer frame, reference numeral 12 denotes a cleaning liquid injection nozzle, and reference numeral 10 denotes a pin that is provided from the turntable 22 to transmit rotation of the denture basket. The turntable 22 uses the resin ball bearing 13 to smoothly rotate the shaft.

  When the switch 1A is pressed, the pump 15 is operated to pump the cleaning liquid from the cleaning liquid tank 4, and the cleaning liquid is sprayed from the 12 cleaning liquid spray nozzles 12A, and the cleaning liquid is supplied from the 4 cleaning liquid chambers to the denture of the 9 denture basket. Spray the cleaning solution.

  Next, the rotation of the denture basket is out of rotation balance when the denture is inserted, so that the denture pops out when the basket is greatly shaken by the rotation. In order to avoid this, it is safe to suppress the blurring of the cage with the frame 23 surrounding the cage, since the denture remains on the frame even if it pops out. Even if the denture pops out with this frame attached, it should be on the frame even if it pops out.

The dentures that have been cleaned are pulled up and attached to the denture cup 7 while still in the denture basket 9. This is put in as shown in the perspective view (FIG. 6) of the denture washing machine. Next, when the switch 1B is turned ON, the deodorizing / disinfecting / preserving solution 5 is sprayed from the nozzle 14 and the sprayed liquid is applied to the denture, deodorizing / disinfecting, and applying appropriate humidity to the denture Save.
The storage covers the lid of 7a to prevent the storage solution from volatilizing and the denture from drying out.

  There is a place where the name of the owner of the denture is written in the lid 7a portion of the plan view of FIG. 11, and it is not confused with other people. In addition, the name can be entered at the handle shown in FIG. FIG. 13 is a perspective view of a cup with a denture basket 9 inside.

  FIG. 5 is a rear perspective view of the denture washing machine, and shows the arrangement of the pump and the electromagnetic valve 15. The pump 16 sends the cleaning liquid. The electromagnetic valve controls tap water. The pump 17 sends deodorizing, disinfecting and preserving liquid. A circuit for controlling these electric components is a control circuit installed in 18 circuit boxes.

  Until now, when using this machine to brush individual dentures, it was necessary to distinguish between individual brushes and individual toothpastes, taking care not to mix them. However, if this machine is used, if the cup and the denture belong to the individual, the burden is higher than the conventional manual cleaning, in which all work must be confirmed to match the personal property. , Greatly reduce.

  Cleaning the dentures of a large number of people in a facility that provides care work is a difficult task and can provide a compact machine that can store dentures easily and cleanly, thus reducing the burden of care work. The work of care helpers can be greatly reduced and the quality of life of the elderly can be improved.

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Explanation of symbols

1: Switch box 2: Cleaning tank 3: Deodorizing / disinfecting / storage liquid 4: Cleaning liquid chamber 5: Deodorizing / disinfecting / preserving liquid chamber 6: Handle 7: Cup for denture 8: Tap water conduit 9: Basket for denture 10 : Guide pin 11: Washing tank outer wall 12: Cleaning liquid injection nozzle 13: Resin ball bearing 14: Nozzle 15: Electromagnetic valve 16: Pump 17: Pump 18: Circuit box 22: Turntable 23: Wheel surrounding the cage

Claims (4)

  In a denture cleaning machine, a nozzle for spraying cleaning liquid on the denture to be cleaned and a nozzle for injecting tap water are arranged from the center of rotation of the basket into which the denture is placed toward the outer periphery, and directly tap water is supplied from the outside of the basket. The denture washing machine characterized by disposing nozzles that fire toward the inside of the toothpaste so that the basket containing the dentures can be directly rotated, so that tap water is uniformly applied to the dentures for washing.   A denture cleaning machine for storing dentures after washing with a cleaning solution containing an aromatic component in a denture cleaning solution and cleaning with a deodorizing / disinfecting / storage solution.   In a denture washing machine, even if the denture protrudes from the basket by providing a gap around the outer periphery of the cage in which the denture is put, and a frame is provided on the outer periphery of the cage. A denture washing machine that is placed on the frame and prevents it from falling down.   In a denture washing machine, when the deodorizing / disinfecting / storage liquid is applied after the cleaning is complete, the denture will not be applied to the denture if it is left covered, so the deodorizing / disinfecting / storage liquid can be applied without opening the lid. A denture cleaning machine with a protective member installed so that no cup can be installed on the machine.

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