Modular Clean Room Structures and Laminations for the Life Sciences and Health-Care Industries

Abstract

Homogenous monolithic modular structures and laminations are usable alone and together to provide easily wipeable aseptic smooth surfaces free it seems, joins and other crevices where bacteria and contamination may lie that is suitable for clean rooms for the life-sciences and health care industries and other applications.

1 . Wall structural modules enabling to provide room structural walls having smooth, easily wipeable surfaces at floor-to-wall and wall-to-wall interfaces that eliminate if not prevent microbe buildup and/or contamination of any desired configuration in dependence on the number and arrangement of wall structural modules employed, comprising: 
 a base track component module having elongated, longitudinally extending side walls that are coved to provide easy wipeability, a top tongue and bottom radius edges that accept caulking;    a ceiling track component module;    an inside corner component module having an upstanding portion that terminates in a foot portion, the upstanding portion including upstanding, left and right panels and an upstanding, aseptic edge integrally joining the upstanding, left and right panels having a smooth, easily wipeable inside surface, the foot has coved surfaces that match the coved surfaces of the base track and is contoured to match the contour of the aseptic edge to provide easily wipeable floor to wall and inside corner surfaces;    an outside corner component module having an upstanding portion that terminates in a foot portion, the upstanding portion including upstanding, left and right panels and an upstanding aseptic edge integrally joining the upstanding, left and right panels having a smooth, easily wipeable outside surface, the foot has coved surfaces that match the coved surfaces of the base track and is contoured to match the contour of the aseptic edge to provide easy wipeability of the floor to wall and outside corner surfaces;    a partition wall component module;    a wall connector component module;    a base track to partition wall joint component module to attach the base track to the partition wall at its bottom; and    a ceiling track to partition wall joint component module to attach the ceiling track to the partition wall at its top.    
   
   
       2 . The invention of  claim 1 , further including a two-piece window frame component module and a glazing member adapted to provide an easily wipeable window in an opening provided therefor in said partition wall component module.  
   
   
       3 . The invention of  claim 1 , further including an end cap panel component module adapted to provide a protective termination for any exposed partition wall end that includes a coved foot that conforms to the curvature of the base track.  
   
   
       4 . The invention of  claim 1 , wherein said base and ceiling tracks and said joints are extruded of polyvinyl chloride.  
   
   
       5 . The invention of  claim 1 , wherein said inside and outside corners and said wall connectors are vacuum-formed and enable to clad over the corners of rooms and the corners of T-walls.  
   
   
       6 . The invention of  claim 1 , wherein said base track is hollow and includes a brace that divides the hollow interior into upper and lower cavities which may be employed as utility races.  
   
   
       7 . The invention of  claim 1 , wherein said ceiling track component includes an elongated top whose sidewalls taper downwardly to provide concave wipeable surfaces, is hollow, and includes a strength providing strut in the hollow interior.  
   
   
       8 . The invention of  claim 1 , wherein said inside and outside corner components each include at least one ridge adapted to provide seamless, easily wipeable laterally adjacent interfaces.  
   
   
       9 . The invention of  claim 1 , wherein said edge of said inside corner component has a generally C-shape.  
   
   
       10 . The invention of  claim 1 , wherein said edge of said outside corner component has a generally C-shape.  
   
   
       11 . The invention of  claim 1 , wherein said edge of said outside corner component has a generally V-shape.  
   
   
       12 . The invention of  claim 1 , wherein said wall connector component includes a two-piece male and female batten subassembly joining laterally adjacent partition wall components in such a way as to provide a crevice-free joint therebetween.  
   
   
       13 . The invention of  claim 1 , wherein said wall connector component includes a monolithic wall panel having an upstanding portion that terminates in a foot portion curved to match the curvature of the side walls of the base track and ridges laterally spaced from the sides adapted to allow seamless joining of laterally adjacent components.  
   
   
       14 . The invention of  claim 1 , wherein said base track joint includes a U-shape member having laterally extending flanges and grooves provided along the flanges, the U-shape member providing a groove that accepts the tongue of the base track.  
   
   
       15 . The invention of  claim 1 , wherein said ceiling track includes an elongated bottom groove and said ceiling track joint includes a U-shape member that provides a tongue adapted to be received in said groove of said ceiling track.  
   
   
       16 . The invention of  claim 1 , wherein said partition wall is a lightweight laminated structure having a core and skins that cover each side of the core.  
   
   
       17 . Monolithic lamination modules enabling to clad walls to provide smooth, easily wipeable aseptic surfaces that eliminate if not prevent microbe buildup and/or contamination, comprising: 
 a wall liner panel lamination component module having a generally rectangular upstanding wall portion terminating in an elongated base portion that is coved to provide ease of wipeability,    an inside corner lamination component module having an upstanding portion that terminates in a foot portion, the upstanding portion including left and right panels and an aseptic inside edge joining the left and right panels having a smooth, easily wipeable surface, the foot portion including a concave, easily wipeable surface extending along the length of the foot portion; and    an outside corner lamination component module having an upstanding portion that terminates in the foot portion, the upstanding portion including left and right panels and an outside edge joining the left and right panels having a smooth, easily wipeable surface, the foot portion including a concave, easily wipeable surface extending along the length of the foot portion.    
   
   
       18 . The invention of  claim 17 , wherein said wall liner panel, and inside and outside corner lamination components are of a size that matches the size of a standard wall.  
   
   
       19 . The invention of  claim 17 , wherein said wall liner panel, inside and outside corner lamination components are wainscot component laminations that are in size less than the height of a standard wall.  
   
   
       20 . The invention of  claim 17 , wherein said wall lamination component includes a rigidity imparting flange horizontally extending from said base.  
   
   
       21 . The invention of  claim 17 , wherein said wall lamination includes a laterally radiused edge providing a butt joint easy to heat-weld or caulk.  
   
   
       22 . The invention of  claim 19 , wherein the inside corner wainscot lamination includes a triangle-shape top wall to close off the wedge that otherwise would be defined at the inside corner of the wall to be clad thereby.  
   
   
       23 . The invention of  claim 19 , wherein the outside corner wainscot lamination edge is a rounded bull nose outside corner edge that provides ease of wipeability.