Patent ID: 9192687
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: A61B,A61L

Abstract:
1. A disinfecting or sterilizing machine for disinfecting or sterilizing endoscopes, comprising: a frame; a casing covering the frame; the frame and the casing being conformed with respect to one another such as to define at least a tunnel having a first opening and a second opening which is opposite the first opening; an upper wall which at least partially superiorly delimits the tunnel; a first lateral wall positionable at the first opening such as to obstruct the tunnel; and a second lateral wall positionable at the second opening such as to obstruct the tunnel, the disinfecting or sterilizing machine further comprising: a bath dimensioned such as to receive at least an endoscope to disinfect or sterilize and which is dimensioned such as to transit along the tunnel; a bath support fixed to the bath, the bath support and the bath forming a bath group; and guide means for guiding the bath group along the tunnel between: a first endrun in which the bath projects externally from the first opening of the tunnel such as to be accessible for inserting or extracting the at least an endoscope and a second endrun in which the bath projects externally from the second opening of the tunnel such as to be accessible for inserting or extracting the at least an endoscope, wherein: the upper wall forms, with the bath, a closed chamber such as to disinfect or sterilize the at least an endoscope when the bath is internal of the tunnel; the first lateral wall, when at the first opening, is couplable alternatively and removably with the frame, such as to be solidly constrained to the frame and obstruct the tunnel or with the bath support such as to be solidly constrained to and be drawn by the bath group and enable the bath group to reach the first endrun; and the second lateral wall, when at the second opening, is alternatively and removably couplable with the frame, such as to be solidly constrained to the frame and obstruct the tunnel or with the bath support such as to be solidly constrained to and be drawn by the bath group and enable the bath group to reach the second endrun.