Medicinal Expanded Vile Holder with Sharps Injury Preventer and Storage System
OwnerBrent Alan Dallmaninventor
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Abstract
A jacket retains a cylindrical drug vial and includes a substantially planar base having a length and a width, the length being greater than the width. A throughhole is sized to receive at least the lid of the vial therethrough. Two ramped devices project from a bottom surface of the base and are substantially aligned along the length of the base. The ramped devices are disposed on opposite sides of the throughhole.
Claims20
A jacket for retaining a cylindrical drug vial, the vial having a diameter oriented in a horizontal direction, the jacket comprising:
- a collar of variable shape including but not limited to conical, pyramidal, elliptical, flat ring or inverted cone providing a barrier between the needle puncture location on the vial and the body of the vial where the user holds the vial, the collar having a vertically oriented channel sized to receive the vial therein;
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- at least one leg extending downwardly from the collar, the leg having an outwardly facing panel configured to have information printed thereon.
A jacket for retaining a cylindrical drug vial, the vial having a diameter oriented in a horizontal direction, the jacket comprising:
- a collar having an upwardly facing surface, the collar having a width at least 20% greater than the diameter of the vial, the collar having an opening sized to receive the vial therein;
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- a body attached to a bottom of the collar and having a vertically oriented channel in communication with the collar opening and sized to receive the vial therein, the body including an opening configured to enable the vial to be visible when the vial is in the channel.
A drug vial storage system comprising:
- a jacket comprising:
- a collar having a vertically oriented opening sized to receive the vial therein;
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- at least one leg connected to the collar, the leg having an outwardly facing panel configured to have information printed thereon, a bottom end of the leg including at least one slot therein, a location of the slot along the lower end being dependent upon contents of the vial to be retained by the jacket;
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- a tray having a plurality of sets of recesses therein, at least one of the sets of recesses matingly receiving the lower end of the leg such that a portion of the tray between the recesses is received in the slot of the leg, locations of the recesses in the tray being dependent upon contents of the vial to be retained by the jacket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.