Stopcock
AssigneeElcam Medical Agricultural Cooperative Association Ltd.
InventorsDavid Ziv, Tomer Gil
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Abstract
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention there is provided a stopcock including a housing element defining at least first, second and third ports, a handle element which is selectably positionable relative to the housing element, at least one fluid passageway communicating between at least two of the at least first, second and third ports, the at least one fluid passageway being selectably defined by at least one of the housing element and the handle element, the at least one fluid passageway being configured for enabling flushing an internal volume of at least one of the first, second and third ports by a fluid flow which does not flow entirely through the port whose internal volume is being flushed.
Claims19
A flushable fluid handling assembly, comprising:
- a housing element defining a central bore and at least first, second and third ports, said first and third ports being line connection ports and said second port being a syringe connection port;
- a handle element which is selectably positionable relative to said housing element;
- at least one fluid passageway communicating between at least two of said at least first, second and third ports, said at least one fluid passageway being selectably defined by rotational positioning of said handle element relative to said housing element;
- a first fluid flow guide associated with said at least one fluid flow passageway, said first fluid flow guide extends radially to an inner facing wall of said central bore, and
- a syringe connected to said second port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.