摘要 |
PURPOSE: To enable articles to be cleaned and sterilized without the necessity of a treating vessel in a sterile room by forming a discharging port so as to be closed by a valve, and at the same time to work as an intake port using a coupling so that an intaking/discharging vessel for articles becomes connectable while being supported by the coupling airtightly. CONSTITUTION: A discharging port 5 on the distant side from a treating vessel has a coupling 9, ad is connectable with a vessel 11 containing articles to be closed so as to support it airtightly through a counter-part coupling 10. The vessel 11 has a funnel-shaped lower component 13 having an intake/discharging port to be has a funnel-shaped lower component 13 having an intaking/discharging port to be closed by a butterfly valve 12. A tube 14 having a spraying nozzle 15 communicates with the vessel 11, and a hose 16 is connectable with the tube 14. When two butterfly valves 6, 12 are opened, articles to be treated have been transferred from the vessel 11 into a treating vessel 1. The vessel 11 is cleaned by being sprayed over its wall face with warm water which is supplied through a spraying valve 15, The water flows into the treating vessel 1, and at the same time, hot steam is supplied there through a tube 7 to wash the articles in the fluid bed of stem. |