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US 11,291,814 B1Granted
Apparatus for holding roll-on medications
OwnerRyan A. Swierinventor
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Abstract
An apparatus for holding a roll-on medication applicator including a curved handle and a sleeve in which the applicator is held. The handle has upper and lower flanges supported by a web attached to the sleeve. The flanges are widened and thickened with undulations and curve over and merge at a free end of the handle. The sleeve has a closed end with an air hole and a side wall with a slit opening at an open end. The slit widens into a finger hole proximate the closed end.
Claims10
An apparatus for holding a roll-on medication applicator comprising
- a handle having upper and lower flanges supported by a web, said handle being curved and having a first and a second end, said upper and lower flanges at the first end of the handle having undulations to engage a user's four fingers on the upper flange and a thumb on the lower flange or vice versa;
- said upper and lower flanges and web attached to an outside of a sleeve having a sidewall, said sleeve having an open top and a closed bottom having an air hole, said upper flange proximate the closed bottom and said lower flange proximate the open top, said web attached parallel to a center axis of the sleeve and said upper and lower flanges attached perpendicular to the center axis of the sleeve;
- and,
- said sidewall of the sleeve having an inner surface dimensioned to frictionally engage an outer wall of the medication applicator, said sidewall having a slit opening at the open top, said slit terminating into an enlarged aperture forming a finger hole through which the outer sidewall of the medication applicator is configured to be accessed.
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An apparatus for holding a roll-on medication applicator comprising
- a handle having upper and lower flanges supported by a web, said handle being curved and having a first and a second end, said upper and lower flanges at the first end of the handle having undulations to snugly engage a user's four fingers on the upper flange and a thumb on the lower flange, said upper and lower flanges widening and thickening through the undulations at the first end;
- said upper and lower flanges and web attached to an outside of a sleeve having a sidewall, said sleeve having an open top and a closed bottom having an air hole, said upper flange proximate the closed bottom and said lower flange proximate the open top, said web attached parallel to a center axis of the sleeve and said upper and lower flanges attached perpendicular to the center axis of the sleeve;
- and,
- said sidewall of the sleeve having an inner surface dimensioned to frictionally engage an outer wall of the medication applicator, said sidewall having a slit opening at the open top, said slit terminating into an enlarged aperture forming a finger hole through which the outer sidewall of the medication applicator is configured to be accessed.
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