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US 3,934,721 AGranted
Packaged catheter arrangement
AssigneeAffiliated Hospital Products, Inc.
InventorsRobert W. Juster, William E. Patton
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Abstract
A packaged catheter arrangement having a soft and pliable latex rubber catheter for body orifice use and having its shaft slidably removably disposed within a relatively rigid tube sheath of plastic to form a catheter handling assembly which is enclosed as a unit within a peripherally sealed peel-apart dual sheet overpackage. The tube sheath is sealed closed at one end and the catheter preferably has a pre-lubrication coating on its insertion shaft and enclosed within the closed-ended tube sheath.
Claims9
A packaged catheter arrangement, comprising
- a flexible rubber catheter having an easily flexible insertion shaft with an insertion tip at one end and having two divergent fluid passage arms,
- a flexible tube sheath, the tubular extent and shape of said tube sheath laterally enveloping and serving to protect the length of said catheter insertion shaft during and subsequent to assembly as a dual component unit of said packaged catheter arrangement,
- said tube sheath being closed at one end and open at its other end,
- the interior of said tube sheath being of a size to accommodate said catheter shaft, but insufficient to accommodate said two divergent fluid passage arms,
- and said catheter insertion shaft being removably disposed within said tube sheath with its insertion tip adjacent said closed end of said tube sheath and having its two divergent fluid passage arms adjacent and extending beyond said open end of said tube sheath.
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