Patent ID: 9629990
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61M,B65D

Claim:
1. A surgical preparation applicator device comprising: a pre-loaded container of surgical preparation liquid, the container having a body and a front closure at a front end of the container which can open to allow passage of the liquid out of the container; an applicator body which includes a receiving structure in which the container is received, the container and the receiving structure being capable of relative movement between an initial relative position and an open relative position, the applicator body also comprising an opener structure for opening the front closure of the container when the container is moved to the open relative position; a deformable, liquid-permeable applicator pad, the applicator body defining a flow path between the container and the applicator pad; and wherein the container has a plurality of separate chambers containing different component liquids of the surgical preparation liquid, each chamber having a front opening at the front end of the container, with the front closure closing off each front opening, whereby each chamber is opened by the opener structure when the container is moved to said open position, wherein said opener structure comprises cutters arranged to cut through the front closure which is a film, foil or other layer and wherein the opener structure comprises, for each cutter, an adjacent sweeper element positioned to push a cut section of the front closure out of the liquid flow path.