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Heated dispenser for rubbing alcohol

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Too simple for a project page & which may never happen.

lion-mclionheadlion mclionhead 04/11/2020 at 19:300 Comments

Lions make wet wipes from alcohol, hot water, & paper towels.  They might eventually switch to reusable napkins, but nothing is worse than cold alcohol on a lion body. 

There are heated beverage dispensers, but not heated rubbing alcohol dispensers.  A rubbing alcohol dispenser needs to heat instantly & dispense a small amount.  You don't want to heat the entire bottle & waste energy or have to begin heating it long before using it. 

On the other side, there are very expensive bottle top dispensers for medical use, which aren't heated.  Then, there are weird push down dispensers.

The basic method of instantly heating fluid is a long tube coiled around a heating element.  The lion kingdom could wait a short time for the fluid in the tube to heat up.  The pump would be the outlet of the tube.  There are immersion heaters for boiling water & heating cars, which run on manes voltage or 12V.  

The cheapest, safest solution might be a bunch of ceramic resistors with a thermostat, a power switch, & a shutdown timer.  The heating system would have to be very compact, waterproof, & fit inside a conventional pump dispenser.  The dispenser would connect by a long tube to the alcohol bottle.  There would also be a low voltage power cord, probably 19V so it could run on a laptop power supply.  There would be some jig to store the whole thing & the power supply.  The power switch would probably be on the storage jig, control the manes voltage & have to be turned on a minute early to pre-heat it.

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