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AssigneeDuras Trading Limited
InventorsAlbert Louis Victor Jozef Claessens, Austin McDonald, Gerhard Liepold, Donald Stollenmaier
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A closure for a transportable container used in the transfer of materials to or from an enclosed process area is described. The container docks with a port in a wall of the process area forming a sealed connecting chamber which is sterilized by irradiation. Communication between the interiors of the container and the process area is then established. The closure has a collar and a lid, which portions are formed so that all the surfaces which form part of the connecting chamber in use are in the direct line of the sterilizing radiation, which is normally ultra-violet or pulsed white light radiation. No relevant surface is shadowed from the radiation. The lid may be formed integrally with the collar with a thin web separating the two to define a fracture line. The lid is provided with a grip which can be grasped from within the process area. Application of a pulling force to the grip causes the lid to be pealed away from the collar without the generation of particulates.
A closure for a transportable container, the closure comprising a collar portion arranged to lock with and be dockable with a port located in a wall of a process area to form a sealed connecting chamber, a lid portion removably connected to the collar portion, such that following locking of the closure with the port, the lid portion is removable from within the process area to provide communication between the interiors of the container and the process area, the collar and lid portions being so formed and shaped that all surfaces thereof which form part of the sealed connecting chamber lie in use in the direct path of sterilizing ultra-violet or pulsed white light radiation generated within the chamber with no surface or portion of a surface being shadowed from the radiation, the lid portion includes a grip member grippable to assist removal of the lid portion from the collar portion without generation of particulate material and in that all external surfaces of the grip member lie in use in the direct path of the sterilizing radiation;
A closure for a transportable container, the closure comprising a collar portion arranged to lock with and be dockable with a port located in a wall of a process area to form a sealed connecting chamber, a lid portion removably connected to the collar portion, such that following locking of the closure with the port, the lid portion is removable from within the process area to provide communication between the interiors of the container and the process area, the collar and lid portions being so formed and shaped that all surfaces thereof which form part of the sealed connecting chamber lie in use in the direct path of sterilizing ultra-violet or pulsed white light radiation generated within the chamber with no surface or portion of a surface being shadowed from the radiation, the lid portion includes a grip member grippable to assist removal of the lid portion from the collar portion without the generation of particulate material and in that all external surfaces of the grip member lie in use in the direct path of the sterilizing radiation;
A closure for a transportable container, the closure comprising a collar portion arranged to lock with and be dockable with a port located in a wall of a process area to form a sealed connecting chamber, a lid portion removably connected to the collar portion, such that following locking of the closure with the port, the lid portion is removable from within the process area to provide communication between the interiors of the container and the process area, the collar and lid portions being so formed and shaped that all surfaces thereof which form part of the sealed connecting chamber lie in use in the direct path of sterilizing ultra-violet or pulsed white light radiation generated within the chamber with no surface or portion of a surface being shadowed from the radiation, the lid portion includes a grip member grippable to assist removal of the lid portion from the collar portion without the generation of particulate material and in that all external surfaces of the grip member lie in use in the direct path of the sterilizing radiation;
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