PURPOSE: To provide a container that allows to use a capsule in the state that requires a high degree of sterility.
CONSTITUTION: The container protects a sterile capsule containing predetermined amounts of a multi-component hardening material such as bone cement. The container can transmit externally applied pressure to the capsule. Material components contained in the capsule are made into contact and mixed in a vibrating mixer. Even when the mixer is not operated in a sterile environment, the capsule maintains sterility essential to the operating room. To transmit the pressure required for actuating the capsule, the container consists of two shell portions 1 and 2 that can be moved against each other by external compression force. When the container is opened, the capsule is protected by means of a ring 3 or apron from contact with non-sterile container surface 5.
