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Sterile connection apparatus

  • US 4,242,310 A
  • Filed: 11/13/1978
  • Issued: 12/30/1980
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1978
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. Sterile connection apparatus for enabling the connection of a first tube to a second tube, which comprises:

  • a housing including a base portion having a top edge and a cover portion having a bottom edge, said portions being adapted for interfitting with each other along their edges to provide a substantially closed interior volume;

    said housing including means for receiving and holding said first tube and means for receiving and holding said second tube;

    said receiving means comprising grooves in the edge of the base portion or the cover portion for receiving and holding said tubes with the portions of the tubes to be sterilized extending inside the housing and other portions of the tubes being outside the housing;

    means carried by said housing, located within said housing and operable from outside said housing for enabling manipulation of one of said tube portions inside the housing with respect to the other tube portion inside the housing; and

    means for sterilizing said inside tube portions within the substantially closed interior volume.

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