Apparatus and process for producing a filter element
AssigneeGambro Lundia AB
InventorsChristof Beck, Rainer Blickle, Stefan Ermantraut, Bernd Hertzler, Steffen Wagner
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus used in the production of a sterilizing filter for dead-end filtration of medical liquids which comprises a plurality of microporous hollow fiber membranes having a large inner diameter, and to a process for operating the apparatus.
Claims15
An apparatus for producing a filter element, comprising a picker arm having a plurality of grooves, wherein each groove is configured to hold a hollow fiber membrane having an outer diameter which is larger than 3 mm and smaller than 4.5 mm, and being in fluid connection with a suction device;
- wherein the picker arm being mounted on a moveable block and being rotatable around its longitudinal axis (C), around a horizontal axis (A) of the moveable block which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis (C) of the picker arm, and moved in a vertical direction (Z) with the moveable block;
- a slide moveable in a horizontal direction (X) and being configured to receive a fiber cartridge holding a plurality of hollow fiber membranes having an outer diameter which is larger than 3 mm and smaller than 4.5 mm arranged in parallel and oriented in a direction perpendicular to the horizontal direction (X);
- at least one heated metal pin having a conical shape, the maximum diameter of the heated metal pin being larger than an inner diameter of the hollow fiber membranes, the least one heated metal pin moveable in a vertical direction (Z1) and, optionally, in a horizontal direction (XI).
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