Needle protection device with gauge specific color coding and method for menufactring thereof

A method of color coding a syringe having a needle fixedly attached thereto, comprising the steps of:

• determining the gauge of a chosen needle to be attached to the syringe;
• determining a specific color that corresponds to the gauge of the chosen needle from a color scheme that preassigns different colors to different gauged needles;
• choosing a plastics material that has the given color;
• forming a syringe having a syringe body and a needle hub at its distal end from the plastics material of the specific color;
• attaching the chosen needle to the hub of the syringe;
• forming a needle protection housing from the plastics material of the specific color;
• attaching the needle protection housing to the distal end of the syringe;
• wherein the syringe and the needle protection housing both have the specific color that correspond to the gauge of the chosen needle.

A method of manufacturing a color coded syringe having a syringe body and a needle protection housing, comprising the steps of:

• a) corresponding the gauge of the needle to be attached to the syringe with a given color;
• b) choosing a plastics material having the given color;
• c) forming at least one of the syringe body and the needle protection housing from the plastics material having the given color, wherein the syringe body is formed to have a distal portion and a needle hub, a groove formed circumferentially at the distal portion;
• d) forming the needle protection housing to have a collar hingedly connected thereto;
• e) attaching the needle to the needle hub of the syringe body;
• f) attaching the needle protective housing to the syringe by fitting the collar about the groove at the distal end of the syringe body so that housing is rotatable about the groove and pivotable relative to the syringe;
• wherein the gauge of the needle is determinable from the color of the at least one of the syringe body and the needle protection housing formed from the plastics medical having the given color.

A method of providing a color scheme to a syringe so that the gauge of the needle attached to the syringe is determinable from the color scheme of the syringe, comprising the steps of:

• a) corresponding the gauge of the needle to be attached to the syringe with a given color from a standard having a plurality of colors;
• b) forming a syringe having a syringe body with a distal portion and a needle hub, a groove formed circumferentially at the distal portion;
• c) forming a needle protection housing having a collar hingedly connected thereto;
• d) attaching the needle to the needle hub of the syringe body;
• e) attaching the needle protective housing to the syringe by fitting the collar about the groove at the distal end of the syringe body so that housing is rotatable about the groove and pivotable relative to the syringe;
• f) forming at least one marking having the given color on the syringe body so that the gauge of the needle of the syringe is determinable from at least the marking on the syringe body.