Patent ID: 8828327

Claim:
Apparatus for sterilizing a tubular medical line port, comprising: an imperforate cap molded of a pliable plastic and having an open annular cavity with an integral floor and dimensioned and contoured to receive therein through a mouth a tubular medical line port with a friction fit for scrubbing surfaces of said port with a sterilizing fluid contained in said cavity; flexible scrubber protrusions extending into said cavity from a central portion of said floor of said cavity for scrubbing interior portions of a medical line port; said floor flexibly displaceable whereby said floor will displace outwardly when said scrubber protrusions engage a valve within said port for thereby scrubbing exposed surfaces of said valve while preventing opening of said valve: said floor having an inwardly convex cross section such that said floor protrudes within said cavity and integrally molded with the remainder of said cap, said cross section being thinner than side walls of said cap whereby said floor will flexibly bulge outward upon application of predetermined forces applied to said scrubber protrusions; said scrubber protrusions being integrally molded of said pliable plastic with said cap.