Patent ID: 8741069
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: A61B,A61F,B08B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. Apparatus for cleaning surgical instruments, said instruments having a body with a first end and a second end, an internal passageway, a housing formed at said first end, an actuating mechanism assembled at said housing, said housing having at least one end port communicating with said passageway, said passageway having an outlet at said second end, said apparatus comprising: a first plug, said first plug having a hollow flush cavity, means inside said first plug for gripping said first end and said actuating mechanism in a liquid-tight fit, said first plug having an inlet port communicating with said flush cavity, said flush cavity communicating with said at least one end port when said first plug grips said housing, whereby flush liquid injected into said inlet port enters said at least one end port, passes through said passageway in a flowpath away from said inlet port and exits said instrument through said passageway outlet, whereby contaminants in said instrument are flushed in a direction away from said housing.