Container system for dangerous materials
AssigneeThe Radiochemical Centre Limited
InventorRonald J. Furminger
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Abstract
A container system comprising an outer container containing a glass or plastics vial wherein the latter is to be opened without the danger of injury to the operator due to spillage from the vial. The outer container has a screw-top lid which has an engaging cavity whereby, once unscrewed from the container, it may be engaged with the top of the vial itself (which is revealed when the lid is unscrewed) and manipulated to remove the vial top in safety.
Claims10
A container system comprising:
- a container having a body and a removable lid, said body having an externally threaded end, said lid having first and second opposing lid ends, said first lid end having internal threads for allowing said first lid one end to threadably engage said container externally threaded end thereby closing said container;
- a vial adapted to fit within said container and having a vessel and a removable top releasably fitted to said vessel;
- said second lid end having a first engaging means for, when said lid is removed from said container, engaging the outer periphery of said removable top for releasing said removable top from said vessel by a manipulation of said lid;
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- a tray having a second engaging means for engaging said container body and removably fixing said container body to said tray and having a third engaging means for, when said lid is removed from said container, engaging said lid and removably fixing said lid to said tray.
A method of opening a vial, having a vessel and a removable top thereon, which is positioned inside a container, having a body and a removable lid threaded therewith, comprising the steps of:
- placing the container on a tray and engaging a portion of said container, with a first engaging means on the tray for nonrotatably fixing the container to the tray;
- unscrewing the removable lid from the container and removing it therefrom;
- engaging the removable top with a second engaging means located on the removable lid and manipulating the removable lid for releasing the removable top from the vessel;
- removing the removable top from the vessel by further manipulating the removable lid;
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- positioning the removable lid on the tray and frictionally engaging a third engaging means located on the removable lid with a fourth engaging means located on the tray for removably fixing the removable lid to the tray.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.