Clip for supplying implant projectiles
AssigneeMinnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
InventorsEarl Lee Fischer, Jay W. Gould, III
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Abstract
A clip for use with a gas-operated gun to package and supply to the gun hygienic projectiles for inoculating animals with a particular biologically active material. The clip contains a molded structure having a plurality of axially aligned adjacent cylindrical chambers receiving the implant projectile and each chamber is sealed by a rupturable sealing film at each end thereof. Indexing recesses are provided on said structure and associated with each of the chambers for indexing the clip in the gun to dispose seriatim the chambers in alignment with the bore of the gun.
Claims18
A clip for hygienic ballistic implant projectiles containing a biologically active material comprising:
- a rectangular structure having a plurality of chambers with parallel axes and indexing means associated with each of said chambers for use in registering said chambers in a gun and indexing the chambers seriatim,
- ballistic implant projectiles containing a biologically active material positioned in said chambers, and
- mechanically rupturable sealing means at each end of each of said chambers for individually isolating each of said chambers from the ambient environment and so that a device may penetrate the sealing means at one end of a chamber and force the projectile through the sealing means and out the chamber at the other end of the chamber.
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