Closed stopcock
AssigneeElcam Medical Agricultural Cooperative Association Ltd.
InventorsGilad Mermelshtein, Hilel Yeshayahu, Ilan Shopen
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Abstract
A stopcock, comprising a housing element defining a central bore and at least first, second and third ports; and a handle element which is selectably positionable relative to the housing element; at least one of the housing element and the handle element defining: a first fluid flow passageway communicating between two of the at least first, second and third ports; a second fluid flow passageway communicating between at least two of the at least first, second and third ports, and a fluid flow guide associated with the second fluid flow passageway, the fluid flow guide extending radially towards an inner facing wall of the central bore.
Claims13
A stopcock comprising:
- a housing element defining a central bore and at least first, second and third ports;
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- a handle element which is selectably positionable relative to said housing element;
- said housing element and said handle element being arrangeable in multiple mutual positions,
- at least one of said housing element and said handle element defining:
- a first fluid flow passageway communicating between two of said at least first, second and third ports;
- a second fluid flow passageway communicating between at least two of said at least first, second and third ports, selection of said ports being in accordance with a relative position of said handle element relative to said housing element;
- said first fluid flow passageway including a side-to-side extending bore extending through said handle, and said second fluid flow passageway including a first fluid flow guide, and
- a second fluid flow guide extending radially and partially bifurcating one of said at least one of the first, second and third ports, said second fluid flow guide being associated with at least one of said first fluid flow passageway and said second fluid flow passageway, and wherein said first fluid flow passageway is fluidly isolated from said second fluid flow passageway in at least one of said mutual positions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.