Patent ID: 9693892
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: A61F,B01F,F25C

Claim:
1. A method for making sterile saline slush; the method comprising: placing an amount of sterile saline in a receptacle with a bottom wall and a cylindrical vertical wall, the bottom wall having an integral center feature with a set of ribs, the amount of sterile saline placed into the receptacle being insufficient to cover all of the cylindrical vertical wall; oscillating the receptacle with back and forth in movements of less than one full revolution around a centerline axis of the receptacle while at least a portion of the bottom wall and the cylindrical vertical wall are exposed to air cooled below a freezing temperature for the sterile saline contained in the receptacle to form a slush/saline slurry, and the oscillation of the receptacle causing an oscillation of the center feature with the set of ribs promoting movement of slush/saline slurry from the set of ribs radially outward towards the cylindrical vertical wall, up a portion of the cylindrical vertical wall, and then back towards the centerline axis of the receptacle.