Tip cleaner for operating room instruments
CA 2136063 A1 · Owner: Miller, Gale W. · Inventors: Gay, Charles W.; Miller, Gale W.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A cleaning device for surgical implements comprising a base and upstanding bristles including, at least one sharp vertical edge and a flat top. The bristles of one section are short and rigid the, bristles of the second section are long are relatively flexible, and the bristles of an intermediate section vary in length from short to long with a substantial portion of the intermediate bristles being relatively rigid so that a suction tube can be cleaned by pressing it downwardly over the bristles. The base carries a resilient pad and a securing member such as a double-faced adhesive tape for mounting the unit upon a support surface.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed November 17, 1994. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 17, 2014.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 17, 2016.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
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Sources & verification
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