Vial cap opener device
OwnerPeter J. Swartz, Ronald J. Sostekinventors
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Abstract
A vial sealing cap opening device comprised of a body member having a channel defined therein, the sides of the channel being spaced apart a distance slightly greater than the diameter of the vial sealing caps to be opened and a blade member disposed within the channel and elevated above the back wall of the channel a distance sufficient so that the blade's tip will enter a perforation in the vial sealing cap when the vial is inserted in the channel perpendicularly to the body member and manually moved against the blade. The device further includes a vial sealing cap lift tab deformer and sealing cap ring remover.
Claims7
A device for assisting in opening a vial having a vial sealing cap that incorporates a lift tab, comprising:
- a body member having a channel defined therein, said channel having a back wall, a top, an open front, a bottom, and sides which are spaced apart a distance at least slightly greater than the maximum width of the lift tab;
- a blade bridging a portion of the front of the channel and mounted on the body member so as to be approximately parallel to the back wall and spaced forward from it so that when the vial is held perpendicular to the blade adjacent to the back wall and moved so as to bring the vial cap into proximity with the blade, further motion of the vial causes the blade to enter into the space inside the vial cap immediately beneath a portion of the lift tab whereby the lift tab can be more readily separated from the surface of the vial cap;
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- means affixed to the body member for assisting in deforming the vial cap in such a way that a portion of the lift tab is caused to be partially bent away from and out of the outside surface of the vial cap, whereby the balance of the lift tab can thereafter be more readily removed through proper manipulation of the vial cap in relation to the blade.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.