Devices, systems and methods for cleaning and disinfecting footwear items are disclosed herein. In an aspect a cleaning belt element is configured to rotate a cleaning belt in a continuous loop around a first rotating cylinder and a second rotating cylinder wherein the first rotating cylinder and the second rotating cylinder are connected by the cleaning belt. In another aspect, a containment element is configured to receive the footwear item wherein the containment element comprises a shroud, one or more bristle protruding from at least one inside wall of the shroud, and a transparent floor layer wherein the received footwear item rests. In yet another aspect, an ultraviolet light element is configured to emit ultraviolet light from an ultraviolet light source wherein the ultraviolet light source is located below the transparent floor layer.

A footwear vacuum assembly includes a mat that is positionable on a floor such that the mat can be stepped upon by a user. The mat has a plurality of suction holes integrated into the mat and the plurality of suction holes can be stepped upon by the user. A suction conduit is integrated into the mat and the suction conduit is in communication with the plurality of suction holes. A nozzle is attached to the mat and the nozzle can be fluidly coupled to a suction hose of a vacuum source. The nozzle is in communication with the suction conduit to suck the debris from soles of the user's shoes into the vacuum source when the user steps on the plurality of suction holes.

Devices, systems and methods for cleaning and disinfecting footwear items are disclosed herein. In an aspect, an apparatus is disclosed comprising an ultraviolet light element configured to emit ultraviolet light toward a top covering element configured to receive one or more contaminated item, wherein the ultraviolet light element is located within a lower frame element. In another aspect, a grating element is disclosed comprising a frame of bars configured to support the one or more contaminated item; wherein the grating element is a ceiling enclosure portion of the lower frame element. In yet another aspect, a brush frame element mounted to an underside of the grating element is disclosed, wherein the brush frame element comprises a set of brush strips configured to protrude through at least one space between the frame bars.

The present disclosure relates to a sole cleaning apparatus, including a pedal having a plurality of vibration sealing column holes provided thereon. Movable vibration sealing columns protrude out from the sealing column holes. Convex pedal ridges are arranged around the sealing column holes, and the vibration sealing columns are higher than the pedal ridges when not pressed down. A vibration sealing chamber leading to a dust collecting and filter chamber is arranged below the vibration sealing column holes, and comprises a step and a spring component. The vibration sealing columns are columns with discs, and the columns vertically penetrate through the vibration sealing chambers and the discs are arranged on the steps. When the vibration sealing columns are pressed down, the vibration sealing columns are in contact with the vibration plates, and vibration generated by the vibration plates is transferred to a sole stepping on the pedal.

A treadable mat comprises at least one sanitisation portion (10; 110) treadable by a user and provided with sanitisation means suitable to dispense a sanitising substance. The sanitisation portion comprises a treadable support surface (14). The sanitisation means are housed in a sanitisation seat (16) formed in the sanitisation portion below said support surface 14. The sanitisation means comprise at least one tank (22; 120) containing the sanitising substance, at least one dispensing nozzle (24; 122) in fluidic communication with said tank (22; 120), said dispensing nozzle having an open end on said support surface, and actuator means (30; 130) operable to generate a spray or a vaporized or nebulised jet of the sanitising substance in the presence of a sanitisation command signal.

A shoe disinfecting device has a base and a lid defining an interior compartment to hold liquid disinfecting solution. The lid is upwardly biased (e.g., spring loaded) from a compressed position to an extended position and includes openings for passage of solution between the interior and a lid upper surface. Pressurization of the solution within the interior, responsive to forces depressing the lid from the extended to the compressed position, causes expelling of the solution through the openings and onto the upper surface. Upon release of the depressing force, biasing of the lid from the depressed to the extended position creates a vacuum within the interior and pulls remaining solution from the upper surface back into the interior. A removable disinfecting liquid container is in fluid communication with the interior via a liquid pump controlled to pump solution from the container to maintain sufficient quantities of solution within the interior.

A shoe sole cleaning device may include a fluid reservoir capsule having an inner chamber for containing a cleaning solution. The shoe cleaning device may also include a trough and a fluid pump operably connected to a fluid exit port of the fluid reservoir capsule to pump the cleaning solution from the fluid exit port to the trough. A brush may be disposed partially within the trough such that some of its bristles are at least partially submersible in the cleaning solution in the trough. A motor may cause the brush to rotate about an axial shaft picking up the cleaning solution from the trough to clean a shoe's sole. A fluid recycle conduit may transport the cleaning solution from the trough back to the inner chamber of the fluid reservoir capsule when the cleaning solution in the trough reaches a predetermined height.

A shoe cleaning apparatus including a housing unit having an interior compartment, an opening medially disposed through a top side of the housing unit, and a circular threaded aperture disposed through the top side proximal the opening. A horizontal axis rotary brush having a plurality of bristles is disposed within the opening of the housing unit. A motorized drive belt mechanism is disposed within the housing unit. The motorized drive belt mechanism is configured to rotate the horizontal axis rotary brush. A shoe drying mat has a rear surface attached to a bottom front edge of the housing unit. Each of a front splash guard and a back splash guard of a pair of vertically disposed adjustable dome-shaped splash guards is slidably attached to each of an inner front surface and an inner back surface, respectively, of the opening of the housing unit.

There is provided a dust suction apparatus comprising: a base; a side frame wherein the base and frame defines a dust suction space; a dust suction panel disposed in the dust suction space; and a dust-collection device air-communicated with the dust suction panel, wherein the dust suction panel includes a plurality of dust suction panel modules, wherein the dust suction panel modules are mounted in the dust suction space in a modular fashion to allow the plurality of dust suction panel modules to be removed individually.

A smart mat provides a frame having a platform spaced apart from a base plate so as to define a compartment between the platform and the base plate wherein one or more powered brushes are operatively associated with the frame so that an operative surface of at least one of the one or more powered brushes projects above the platform, and an artificial intelligence functionality operatively associated with the one or more powered brushes so that activation thereof is based on the AIF sensing a user.