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US 10,743,963 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for collecting reusable material and cleaning surgical instruments
OwnerGeorge Frey, Benjamin Majors +3inventors
InventorsGeorge Frey, Benjamin Majors, Charles O'Neil, Geoff Lai, Russ Rydin
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Abstract
A system and method for cleaning instruments, which provides removal and collection of material from one or more surgical instruments. The cleaning apparatus may be a dry cleaning process or offered in conjunction with one or more fluids. In one embodiment, the cleaning apparatus continuously purges blood, bone and other debris quickly and may comprise a system for removing reusable material from the cleaning process for reuse.
Claims13
A device for cleaning, comprising:
- a housing;
- a first belt brush and a second belt brush, wherein a first belt brush direction of rotation is opposite in relation to a second belt brush direction of rotation;
- a motor operatively associated with a first coupling for mechanically linking a shaft of the motor to at least one belt drive of the first belt brush and a second coupling for mechanically linking the shaft of the motor to at least one belt drive of the second belt brush;
- at least one scraper that physically communicates with at least a portion of at least one of the first and second belt brush;
- a collection container positioned at least partially within the housing;
- a ramp positioned between the scraper and the collection container;
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- at least one filter media configured to be received within the housing and between at least a portion of the ramp and the collection container.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.