The U 168/1 serves operating theatre suites, day surgery units and sterile services departments that reprocess theatre shoes in a Miele PG 8535 or PG 8536. Theatre support workers and decontamination technicians load it, and Miele markets it for theatre shoe reprocessing. The basket sits among Miele's accessories for medical washer-disinfectors, listed as both a lower basket and an insert for theatre shoes.
Loading starts at the holders. Each theatre shoe goes onto one of the 20 holders, which stand at a strut height of 295 mm, and the basket takes shoes up to size 45. A full load is 20 shoes, or ten pairs. With the ML/2 in its bracket, the loaded basket then goes into the machine, which recognises it as the mobile unit. After the programme, the shoes come off the holders they were loaded onto.
Footwear has its own basket here. Each holder is for a shoe, so theatre footwear goes through the machine as its own load, and the capacity of each run is known before it starts. The same ML/2 strip also scontrols the spray arm o a single bracket supports both functions that Miele names
Departments running both of these machines can move the basket between them, since the PG 8535 and PG 8536 each take it. Its stainless steel construction weighs 3.20 kg, or 5.20 kg packed. The basket runs without power, so it has nothing to charge or electrically test. Material number 05878590 identifies it for reorders; the; the earlier number was 69116803Dwas 69116803D