Sterilizer with inflatable article holder
AssigneeBen Venue Laboratories, Inc.
InventorSaul Kaye
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Abstract
Apparatus for holding medical and other devices while sterilant gas is passed over and through the device. The apparatus comprises an inflatable cuff which inflates by interior pressure as the pressure in the sterilizer chamber decreases, and relaxes as chamber pressure increases, thereby alternately holding the device and exposing its surfaces to the sterilant gas and desorbing gas.
Claims7
A device for holding medical instruments during sterilization comprising in combination a gas-tight sterilizing apparatus and an inflatable holder, said holder comprising sealed inflatable means maintained in a rigid holder within said sterilizing apparatus, said inflatable means being in a relaxed, non-rigid state at ambient pressure within said sterilizing apparatus thereby permitting the surfaces of said instruments to be contacted by a sterilizing medium and in an inflated state, for securely holding said instruments, under conditions of reduced pressure within said sterilizing apparatus.
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