Patent ID: 6070751
Filing Date: 2000-06-06
Classification: A61B,A61M,B65F,Y10S

Abstract:
Hermetic container for holding clinical waste, which being of the type of those constructed by means of a functional combination of a main portion (1) and a cover, which may be coupled in an immovable manner, and in which said cover is provided at its base with a container-filling window, aided by a rotatory shutter disk, for sealing thereof, capable of being blocked from any rotational movement in a blocking position after filling of the container, wherein the cover (2) has a circumferential groove (8), with a throttled mouth, in which there moves with axial immobilization an extended flange (12) of the shutter disk (9), said shutter disk (9) has two ample windows (17) and (19), in diametric opposition, capable of being placed, in extreme rotatory positions of the disk (9), facing the container-filling window (16) of the cover (2), one of the windows (17) of the disk (9) acting as a means of access to the container for the clinical waste, when it is placed facing the window (16) of the cover in one extreme position of the disk; while at the other extreme position of the disk the other window (19) has a blocking button (22) capable of being moved toward the inside of the container and being secured to the edge of the window (16) of the cover to prevent rotational movement of the shutter disk and block access to the container.