Hospitals, clinics and laboratories that reprocess mixed loads in a Miele PG 8535 or PG 8536 use the U 874/1 as the lower level of the load. Theatre and sterile services staff and laboratory technicians place inserts and mesh trays on the basket, and the whole carrier goes into the machine as one part. Miele files it as a carrier or basket carrier for laboratory and medical washer-disinfectors.
Miele names ten areas of application: laboratory glassware, MIS instruments, GYN instruments, ENT instruments, theatre shoes, basins, kidney dishes, surgical instruments, mesh trays and different utensils. A department that handles several of these can keep one kind of basket on hand and change the inserts to suit the list for the day. Each kind of item has a place on the carrier once the right insert is chosen.
A bracket for a magnetic strip is fitted for ML/2 automatic unit recognition, so the washer can identify the basket when the strip is in place. Vertical clearance varies with the upper basket, so staff choose the upper level and the inserts together when they plan a load. Fixing that pairing before the load is built keeps the clearance in view from the start.
The basket is made of stainless steel and weighs 2.10 kg net, or 2.97 kg gross. It measures 515 × 531 × 50 mm, and its carton of 545 × 530 × 100 mm calls for a clear receiving point on delivery. Material number 06442940 and EAN 4002513808919 identify the basket for reorder, and the earlier material number is 69187403D.