System and method for the sterile filling of containers
AssigneeGrifols Worldwide Operations Limited
InventorsJordi Boira Bonhora, Carlos Roura Salietti, David Pages Becerra
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Abstract
A system for the sterile filling of containers for pharmaceutical products, which includes a device for sterilizing containers and a machine for filling sterilized containers, wherein the device for sterilizing containers includes at least one autoclave, and wherein the system includes an automated container-accumulation device and means for automatically transporting the containers sterilized in the autoclave from said autoclave to the container-filling machine via said container-accumulation device.
Claims15
A system for the sterile filling of containers for pharmaceutical products, comprising:
- a device for sterilizing containers;
- and
- a sterilized-containers filling machine,
- wherein the device for sterilizing containers comprises at least a first autoclave, and wherein the system comprises an automated container-accumulation device and means for automatically transporting the containers sterilized in the autoclave from said autoclave to the sterilized-containers filling machine via said container-accumulation device;
- wherein the container-accumulation device comprises an accumulating plate, wherein the sterilized-containers are directed to the accumulation plate via the means for automatically transporting the containers, and wherein the accumulation plate is configured to direct the at least some of the sterilized containers to the sterilized-containers filling machine via the means for automatically transporting the containers.
A method for the sterile filling of containers for pharmaceutical products, comprising steps of:
- cleaning the containers;
- automatically directing a group of the clean containers to an autoclave;
- sterilizing the group of clean containers in the autoclave;
- directing the sterilized containers to a clean zone, via an accumulation plate in an accumulation device;
- and
- filling the sterilized containers in the clean zone.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.