Tabletop dual-chamber steam sterilizer with integrated water distiller

Abstract

A tabletop steam sterilizer system is housed within a tabletop cabinet housing having a water inlet that is adapted for connection to a municipal water supply, thus allowing its use anywhere that there is a standard water supply and without need of a distilled water supply. The tabletop steam sterilizer system includes a plurality of independently operable sterilizing chambers, each of which receives steam from a single steam generator. A single system controller provides for the on-demand sharing of system resources among the two sterilizing chambers. The tabletop steam sterilizer system also includes a water distiller system that receives water from the municipal or other non-distilled water supply, converts that municipal or other non-distilled water to distilled water, and supplies that distilled water to the sterilization chambers to carry out a sterilization cycle. Exhaust from the sterilization chambers may be recycled back to the distiller system for processing by the distiller system back into distilled water for subsequent sterilization cycles.

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