Fluid handling – With cleaner – lubrication added to fluid or liquid sealing... – Cleaning or steam sterilizing
Patent
1990-10-01
1991-10-22
Chambers, A. Michael
Fluid handling
With cleaner, lubrication added to fluid or liquid sealing...
Cleaning or steam sterilizing
251148, 137594, 137241, F16K 5100
Patent
active
050586190
ABSTRACT:
A connector assembly for coupling a fluid transfer line to a resterilizable port. The connector assembly includes a two-position connector coupled at one end to one side of an on-off valve. At the other end, the connector has a means, e.g. threaded nut, for coupling the connector to the resterilizable port which is shown as a resterilizable spool valve. The output of the spool valve is a nipple that can be coupled to a fluid passage in the connector when the connector is placed in a first position. When so coupled, a fluid transfer passage will extend from the on-off valve through the connector and through a passage in the spool valve. The connector may be placed in a second position wherein the nipple is decoupled from the fluid passage in the connector. In this position, the assembly, i.e. spool valve and connector, can be sterilized by passing a sterilization medium, e.g. pressurized steam, through the assembly.
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Chambers A. Michael
New Brunswick Scientific Co., Inc.
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