Two-chamber mixing syringe
AssigneeMerck Patent GmbH
InventorErich Kobel
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Abstract
A two-chamber syringe assembly for medicinal purposes consisting of a piston syringe having a chamber for a liquid; a container as a second chamber for a solid or another liquid; a stopper with an axial bore connecting the syringe to the vial; and a second stopper sealing the axial bore and adapted to be ejected with the liquid in the syringe into the container by inward activation of the piston of the syringe.
Claims9
A two-chamber syringe assembly for initially isolating a first liquid component to be provided in one chamber thereof from a second component to be provided in a second chamber thereof and thereafter mixing the two components;
- comprising a piston and cylinder type syringe having an axially-bored dispensing fitting at one end of the cylinder, with the cylinder forming a chamber for the liquid component when the piston is in outward retracted position at the opposite end of the cylinder;
- a container providing a second chamber for the second component and having an opening at one end;
- a first axially bored resilient stopper in the form of a sleeve, with one end thereof adapted for sealed engagement with the open end of the container and the bore thereof adapted to mounting the dispensing fitting of the cylinder therein in sealed engagement therewith at its other end;
- and a second stopper adapted for mounting in the bore of the first stopper below the dispending fitting in sealed engagement with the first stopper to seal off the piston cylinder chamber and included liquid component from the other component in the second chamber during storage and transport, the second stopper being ejectable from the bore of the first stopper after mounting therein into the second chamber upon actuation of the piston inwardly of the cylinder to communicate the two chambers for mixing the components in the second chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.