Patent ID: 7766162

Claim:
A receptacle for a catheter, which receptacle ( 1 ) comprises a storage space ( 3 ) designed for receiving a catheter, and an opening ( 4 ) connected to the storage space, through which opening a catheter in its longitudinal direction is pushable into and pullable out of the storage space ( 3 ), wherein the receptacle ( 1 ) comprises a holding device ( 7 ) arranged in the storage space ( 3 ), which holding device is arranged to keep a catheter inserted into the storage space ( 3 ) in a spiral-shaped path under mutual separation of the different spiral turns of the spiral-shaped path so that the catheter is prevented from coming into contact with itself along the spiral-shaped path, the holding device ( 7 ) is arranged to keep a catheter inserted into the storage space ( 3 ) in a helicoidal path, and the holding device ( 7 ) comprises a sleeve ( 10 ) rotatably arranged in the storage space ( 3 ), which sleeve is so arranged that a catheter that is pushed into the receptacle via said opening ( 4 ) comes into contact with the inner side ( 10 a ) of the sleeve to thereby facilitate the pushing of the catheter into the storage space.