BARRY D TUERKHEIMER
Optometry in Fort Lauderdale, FL

4721124, Jan 26, 1988

Dec 1, 1983

6/556973

Barry Tuerkheimer - Plantation FL
Robert Cranmore - Ft. Lauderdale FL

B08B 302

134138

A system for storing, cleaning, and sterilizing soft and rigid contact lens. The system utilizes the circulation of cleaning fluid to clean lens which are suspended. The system consists of a container for housing a pair of off-set lens carriers and for functioning as a chamber for cleaning and sterilizing; a cap with apertures for providing a generally water-tight seal for the container and for supporting the lens carriers, and a base/pump housing connected to the bottom of the container for retaining the cleaning fluid and providing a pump mechanism for propelling the cleaning fluid into the cleaning chamber. The container has a floor with a plurality of angled apertures for providing a helically shaped spray of cleaning fluid onto the lens carriers upon manipulation of the base and pump housing. The base/pump housing attached to the bottom of the container is a flexible housing for storing the cleaning fluid and for providing a pump mechanism upon compression for forcing the cleaning fluid through the angled apertures into the cleaning chamber. An interior vessel is provided for water-tight attachment with the cover within the cleaning chamber to retain the two lens carriers side by side during storage.