The apparatus described in the Pharmacopoeias was designed to provide a reproducible and standardised method of ensuring that disintegration has taken place. Each of the tablets to be tested is placed in vertical tubes arranged in a circular basket arrangement. The lower end of the tubes is covered by a sieve mesh.

3-tube bolus basket assembly "A"
PSDISASY-PS03
Standard 6-tube basket rack assembly "B"
PSDISASY-PS06