Syringe needle protector
OwnerChristopher Brandinventor
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Abstract
A lockable syringe needle protector is provided. The syringe protector includes a clamping member and a guard member. The clamping member includes at least one deformable flange portion and a toothed or ribbed surface. Insertion of the clamping member into the guard member creates a locking interaction between the toothed surface of the clamping member and a complementary toothed or ribbed surface of the guard member. A used syringe inserted into the protector is held by urging the clamping member into the guard member, thereby deforming the flange portion of the clamping member and compressibly holding the syringe in the protector.
Claims14
A syringe protector for enclosing the needle portion of a syringe, comprising:
- a clamping member having a toothed surface, an axial passage adapted to receive a syringe therethrough, and at least one flexible flange portion;
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- a guard member having a toothed surface and a deflecting surface;
- wherein interaction between the toothed surface of the clamping member and the toothed surface of the guard member lockably engages the clamping member and the guard member;
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- wherein the deflecting surface deflects the at least one flange portion so as to compressively grip a syringe inserted through the axial passage.
A syringe protector kit, comprising:
- a plurality of clamping members having a toothed surface, an axial passage adapted to receive a syringe therethrough, and at least one flexible flange portion;
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- a guard tray having a plurality of locking sites, each locking site adapted to receive one of the plurality of clamping members, each locking site having a toothed surface and a deflecting surface;
- wherein interaction between the toothed surface of a clamping member and the toothed surface of a locking site lockably engages the clamping member and the guard tray;
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- wherein the deflecting surface of a first locking site radially deflects the at least one flange portion of a first clamping member so as to compressibly grip the syringe inserted through the axial passage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.