PURPOSE: To remove odor and harmfull gas in a shoe housing box completely and for a long life with a simple constitution by providing a heat generator having at least a catalyst-covered layer and a fan means inside of the shoe housing box having an opening/closing door.
CONSTITUTION: When a shoe 6 is placed into a box 9 having an opening/closing door 7, a fan 1 starts operating to send air in the box 9 to a heat generator. Hot air heated by the heat generator 2 is blown off through a hot air blowoff port 4 into the shoe housed in the box 9. Odor component contained in the air in the shoe housing space 8 is sent to the heat generator 2 by the fan 1 and oxidized and dissolved by catalysis of a catalyst-covered layer 3 which forms a surface of the heat generator 2 which is heated by the heat generator 2 to be active, and finally removed. A heat shelter 5 prevents the shoe 6 from being heated directly by infrared rays generated from the heat generator 2 to be of a high temperature. Protrusion of the hot air blowoff port 4 into the shoe housing space is effective in colliding hot air against a toe part of the shoe 6 which is hard to dry.
YOSHIDA AKIHIKO
WAKITA HIDENOBU
TACHIBANA KOICHI
NUMAMOTO HIRONAO
| JPH01244702A | 1989-09-29 |