Patent ID: 7615037
Filing Date: 2009-11-10
Classification: A61B,A61M,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A manifold for connection to a receiver of a medical/surgical waste collection unit, the receiver having a rotating valve disk that selectively allows/blocks fluid flow through the receiver, the valve disk having a longitudinal axis that extends through the valve disk, said manifold including: a housing, said housing having: opposed proximal and distal ends; a proximal section that extends forward from the proximal end, the proximal section at least partially defining a housing void space; a longitudinal axis that extends between the proximal and distal ends and through the proximal section and the housing void space and wherein, at least the proximal section is shaped to be disposed in the waste collection unit receiver and, when, in the receiver, rotate about the housing longitudinal axis; at least one fitting connected to said housing adjacent the distal end, said fitting dimensioned to receive a suction line and having a fluid communication path into the housing void space; and a base plate that extends over the proximal end of said housing so as to define a proximal end of the housing void space so that when said manifold is disposed in the receiver, said base plate is located adjacent the receiver valve disk, said base plate having a center through which the housing longitudinal axis extends and shaped to have an opening through which fluid can flow from the housing void space into the waste collection unit, the opening further shaped to receive a drive member integral with the valve disk, the center of the opening being located in said base plate at a location laterally offset from the base plate center so that rotation of said housing about the housing longitudinal axis results in like rotation of the base plate opening and the rotation of the valve disk around the longitudinal axis of the valve disk, the rotation of the valve disk moving the valve disk between positions in which the disk allows fluid flow through the receiver and in which the disk blocks fluid flow through the receiver.