Patent ID: 9588022
Date: 2017-03-07
CPC Classifications: C12M,G01N,Y10T

Claim:
1. A sampling device for sampling through a sampling valve attached to a contents container used in an industrial processing plant and through a sample outlet connector attached to said sampling valve downstream of said sampling valve, a sample representative of a content of said contents container, comprising: a closed sample container with a flexible wall and with an interior, a coupling member unconnected to the sample outlet connector and ready for releasable coupling to the sample outlet connector, and a communicating passage between the coupling member and the interior of the sample container, at least the interior of the sample container being sterile, and comprising a sterility protection device ensuring the sterility of the interior of the sample container in the form of a three-way valve between the coupling member and the sample container, the three-way valve having a connection to the coupling member, a connection to the sample container, and an outlet, and the three-way valve being, before coupling the coupling member to the sample outlet connector, in a closed position in which it bars any access through the three-way valve to the sterile interior of the sample container.