Dental burr holder and sterilizer

Claim 1

FOR USE IN ENCLOSING AND SYSTEMATICALLY STORING A PLURALITY OF READILY ACCESSIBLE MAGNETIZABLE ARTICLES; A PORTABLE HOLDER AND STERILIZER COMPRISING A CASE MADE OF NON-MAGNETIC MATERIAL AND HAVING A RECEPTACLE PORTION ADAPTED TO BE CHARGED WITH A PRESCRIBED AMOUNT OF STERILIZING MEDIA, AND A PERMANENT MAGNET MOUNTED FOR ACESSIBLE USE IN SAID CASE, SAID MAGNET HAVING SURFACE FOR DETACHABLE ANCHORAGE OF THE ARTICLES THEREON AND ALSO HAVING HANDLING MEANS POSITIONED EXTERIORLY OF THE SURFACES OF THE CASE, SAID MAGNET COMPRISING A SHAFT MOUNTED FOR ROTATION WITHIN THE CONFINES OF SAID RECEPTACLE PORTION, SAID SHAFT BEING OF A CROSS-SECTION APPRECIABLY LESS THAN THE CROSS-SECTION OF SAID RECEPTACLE PORTION AND BEING DISPOSED IN A PLANE BELOW THE PLANE OF THE UPPEEER EDGES OF SAID RECEPTACLE PORTION AND A PREDETERMINED DISTANCE ABOVE THE PLANE OF THE BOTTOM OF THE RECEPTACLE PORTION AND FUNCTIONING IN PART AS A GAUGE INDICATIVE OF THE PROPER LEVEL OF THE STERILIZING MEDIA AND AS SUCH TO ENABLE THE USER TO PERMIT THE LOWER HALF-PORTION OF THE SHAFT TO CONTACT THE STERILIZING MEDIA AND THE UPPER HALFPORTION TO ASSUME A PLANE ABOVE THE PLANE OF THE NORMAL LEVEL OF THE STERLIZING MEDIA.