Dental practices running Quick cycles between patients use the HS-IC box to sterilise a full set of unwrapped instruments in one closed box. Podiatry clinics, GP minor surgery rooms, veterinary practices, and tattoo or piercing studios with a steam steriliser that offers a Quick cycle use it the same way: one set in a box.
At the bench, instruments go in side by side without overlapping, hinged ones opened, and the lid closes over them. The box then goes into the chamber, and steam reaches the set through the lid's rows of holes. Because the whole set travels in one box, one patient's instruments stay together from the bench to the chamber and back, and nothing from one set mixes with another. In a Quick cycle, two boxes are the limit, so a practice that turns sets around quickly plans its loads around that number, with other programmes following the steriliser's load limits.
When the cycle ends, the box comes out at the temperature of its contents and is left to cool before anyone lifts it. With the lid still on, the set can be carried chairside in one piece and opened where it is needed.
The perforated lid also marks the box's limit. It does not seal the contents, so sets that must stay packaged on a shelf go into pouches or wrapped packs instead. Fit depends on the chamber having room for the box. Nothing on it uses power, and the box ships empty, without instruments, a rack, or a steriliser.