Cleaning and liquid contact with solids – Apparatus – For work having hollows or passages
Patent
1999-08-06
2000-04-18
Gulakowski, Randy
Cleaning and liquid contact with solids
Apparatus
For work having hollows or passages
134177, 134186, 21032169, 210636, 210646, B08B 302, B01D 6126
Patent
active
060502789
ABSTRACT:
A dialyzer precleaning system for coupling a source of fluid to a used dialyzer. The precleaning system includes a precleaner header that includes a housing with a needle receiving channel and a connected waste discharge channel, a needle with a plurality of fluid discharge perforations is received within the needle assembly receiving channel, and a coupling arm for attaching the precleaner header to a dialyzer header cap. The needle protrudes into the dialyzer header so that fluid may be discharged through the inside of the needle out the fluid discharge perforations into the dialyzer header. Waste fluid from the dialyzer header is discharged back into the needle assembly receiving channel along the outside the needle into a fluidly connected waste discharge channel and out a waste discharge outlet. The needle may also rotate and retract. The invention also includes a method of precleaning a used dialyzer including providing a precleaner header coupled to a dialyzer header cap, discharging a pulsating stream into the dialyzer header, forming a waste stream, and draining the waste stream from the dialyzer header through the precleaner header. The method may also include reverse flushing the dialyzer, reverse flushing the dialyzer while introducing a pulsating stream into the dialyzer header, flushing the dialyzer using a cross flow arrangement, and flushing the dialyzer from the arterial dialyzer header cap to the venous dialyzer header cap. The invention may also include a base unit that automates the transfer of fluids and waste.
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Andrus Robert G.
Arnal Kevin R.
Luhring David A.
Toy Jeffrey C.
Chaudhry Saeed T.
Gulakowski Randy
Minntech Corporation
Wrigley Barbara A.
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