Patent ID: 9579428
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: A61B,A61M,Y10T

Claim:
1. A medical/surgical waste collection assembly, said assembly including: a manifold, said manifold including: a waste collection unit including: wherein: said manifold housing and said first receiver are collectively configured so that said manifold housing is able to rotate in the bore of said first receiver; said manifold and said first receiver are formed with complementary alignment features that engage when the manifold is inserted into the bore of said first receiver so as to cause the outlet opening of said manifold housing to be, upon insertion into the bore, in a specific rotational alignment in the bore; and said first receiver is attached to said first canister so that the axis through the receiver bore is angled from the horizontal and said alignment features of said manifold and said first receiver are arranged so that, when said manifold is initially inserted into the bore of said first receiver, the outlet opening of said manifold housing is in a first rotational position about the axis through the receiver bore and, when said manifold housing is rotated in the bore, the outlet opening is in a second rotational position about the axis through the receiver bore so that the outlet opening is located below the position of the outlet opening when the outlet opening is in the first rotational position.