Small volume collection container
AssigneeBecton, Dickinson and Company
InventorsShruti Wigh, Arun U. Nair, Michael Baker, Syed Zulfiqar Abbas Zaidi
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Abstract
A specimen collection container assembly including a collection tube having a first open end and a second open end, and an interior reservoir formed within the collection tube. The assembly further includes a cap configured to be couplable to the collection tube to close the first open end, as well as a plug configured to be couplable to the collection tube to close the second open end. The collection tube also includes a flat mouth portion extending 360° around the first open end.
Claims16
A specimen collection container assembly comprising:
- a collection tube having a first open end and a second open end;
- an interior reservoir formed within the collection tube;
- a cap configured to be couplable to the collection tube to close the first open end;
- and
- a plug configured to be couplable to the collection tube to close the second open end,
- wherein the collection tube further comprises:
- a flat lip portion extending 360° around the first open end to define an opening of the first open end;
- and
- a scoop portion formed in the flat lip portion and within an interior wall surface proximate the flat lip portion, with the scoop portion formed at the flat lip portion and extending away therefrom toward the interior reservoir, and with the scoop portion formed about only a portion of a circumference of the flat lip portion;
- wherein a thickness of the flat lip portion located in the scoop portion is less than a thickness of a remainder of the flat lip portion outside of the scoop portion.
A specimen collection tube comprising:
- a first open end;
- a second open end;
- an exterior sidewall;
- an interior reservoir formed within the exterior sidewall;
- a flat lip portion extending 360° around the first open end to define an opening of the first open end;
- and
- a scoop portion formed in the flat lip portion and within an interior wall surface proximate the flat lip portion, with the scoop portion formed at the flat lip portion and extending away therefrom toward the interior reservoir, and with the scoop portion formed about only a portion of a circumference of the flat lip portion;
- wherein a thickness of the flat lip portion located in the scoop portion is less than a thickness of a remainder of the flat lip portion outside of the scoop portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.