Screen basket for sterilizating containers
AssigneeAesculap AG
InventorWolfgang Taschner
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Abstract
A screen basket is provided for sterilizing containers, having a bottom with openings therein. Holding elements are fixed on the bottom, each having an extension which extends through at least one opening of the bottom. A releasable fixing member provided for each extension is placed on the underside of the bottom, to facilitate the installation and removal of the holding elements. Each extension has at least one recess on a side surface thereof. The fixing members carry a detent element which engages the recess in the corresponding extension. The detent element is held on the fixing member for removal from the recess by elastic deformation.
Claims16
A screen basket for sterilizing containers comprising:
- a bottom with openings therein;
- at least one holding element fixed on said bottom and having an extension which extends through at least one opening of the bottom;
- a releasable fixing member surrounding the extension on the underside of the bottom, said fixing member carrying a detent element and having contact surfaces formed by a wedge which is oriented towards an insert opening for the extension, said detent element being constructed and arranged to releasably engage a recess on a side surface of said extension by elastic deformation;
- wherein:
- said detent element comprises two parallel resilient detent arms, the mutual spacing of which is less than the outer diameter of the extension, and
- said two detent arms are mounted in the fixing member for displacement parallel to their longitudinal direction toward said wedge with free ends thereof constructed and arranged to be spread apart by said contact surfaces when displaced toward said wedge.
A screen basket for sterilizing containers comprising:
- a bottom with openings therein;
- at least one holding element fixed on said bottom and having an extension which extends through at least one opening of the bottom;
- a releasable fixing member on the underside of the bottom, said fixing member having an insert opening through which the extension passes and carrying a detent element constructed and arranged to releasably engage a recess on a side surface of said extension by elastic deformation;
- wherein:
- said detent element engages said recess with a bent end of a detent arm that overlaps a portion of said insert opening;
- said detent arm is resiliently mounted in the fixing member via an integrally formed spring wire between the detent arm and the fixing member, a portion of the detent arm emerging from the fixing member to enable displacement of said bent end transversely to said insert opening when the emerging portion is pushed;
- and
- said spring wire is mounted to said fixing member via a bent end portion thereof that engages a retaining recess in the fixing member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.