Patent ID: 7208070

Claim:
A liquid bath treatment jig adapted to treat stents, the jig comprising: a set of a plurality of first stent-engaging formations adapted to be inserted inside respective stents; a complementary set of a plurality of second stent-engaging formations adapted to engage an outside wall of respective stents; wherein one of the first and second stent-engaging formations is conductive and the other is non-conductive; pairs of first and second formations being adapted to hold a stent between them at a first position on the stent, when the formations are in a first position relative to each other; pairs of the first and second formations being adapted to hold a stent at a different, second, position on the stent so as to expose said first position on the stent, in use, to liquid of the bath, when the formations are in a second, different, position relative to each other; and in which movement of the sets of first stent-engaging formations relative to the second set of stent-engaging formations is in a plane that is generally normal to an elongate direction of the first stent-engaging formations and adapted to occur without removing the stents from the first formations.