Container with bristles for cleaning instruments
OwnerGastone Giorniinventor
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Abstract
An open-ended container has a sidewall from the inside of which emerge bunches of bristles converging onto the axis of symmetry or center of the container, which allow instruments with a tool or other element at its tip to be cleaned from residues after use, e.g., dental instruments, and then be disinfected or lubricated. The container also maintains the instrument in an upright position suitable for being handled again, and during the withdrawal phase of the instrument from the container, it repeats the cleaning operation, e.g., the brushing on the bristles, which had previously been done during the insertion of the tool into the container.
Claims12
A container for cleaning slender instruments comprising:
- a container housing having a substantially cylindrically shaped side wall defining an internal chamber;
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- a plurality of bristle bunches removably mounted in said side wall and radially extending therefrom to converge generally toward the center of said internal chamber of said container housing, said bunches of bristles being longitudinally positioned in said side wall so as to brush against instruments inserted into said container and to maintain said instruments in an upright position, said bunches of bristles having a length approximately one-half of the diameter of the container housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.