Patent ID: 8256057
Filing Date: 2012-09-04
Classification: A61B,B08B

Abstract:
1. A lumen pull through for an endoscope, the lumen pull through comprising a filament, and a profiled mass dependent from the filament, the profiled mass including a sheath at least in part on the filament and at least three directly adjacent fully circumferential radial fins of an at least approximately equal diameter carried by the sheath, the radial fins being axially spaced with respect to an axis of both the sheath and the filament, thereby providing at least two pairs of adjacent ones of said fully circumferential radial fins, said radial fins being each substantially radially directed with respect to said axis of said sheath and the filament, and being of a profile, mutual spacing and formed in a material so that each of said radial fins, without any substantial interference between the radial fins upon deflection, cleans an endoscope at least 1 mm in diameter smaller than a diameter of the radial fins by having said mutual spacing between said radial fins being greater than a radial distance of said fins extending from said sheath, said mutual spacing being between the adjacent fins of each of said at least two pairs of fully circumferential adjacent radial fins.