US 4,527,563 AGranted

Sterile earlobe piercing assembly

OwnerVladimir Reilinventor

Life of this patent

Estimating the term…

Loading patent…

Abstract

An ear stud implacement system that embodies a guntype stud setting member wherein sterility in high hygiene conditions are maintained in the piercing of ears and the setting of studs or posts thereinto in secure relationship with the back clasp or nut of the stud or post. The improved system utilizes a stud gun having the components that come in contact with the earlobe and the like, that are disposable such that germs or even disease are not transmitted through the stud gun components from one person's ears to another's. The system allows for implacement of sterile components and the placement of stud and back in the ear under sterile conditions not requiring touching of, for example, the stud and clasp with human hands or the touching of the replaceable components of the stud gun with human hands thereby decreasing the risk involved, of one getting their ears pierced, of contracting hepatitis due to the fact that another's blood may be on the stud gun components to, quite possibly, infect another during the ear piercing operation.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A sterile stud implacement system comprising the combination:

a pistol-like member having a handle portion and a barrel portion, said barrel portion carrying a plunger for axial movement from a first, cocked position to a second, released position and being operatively connected to a trigger member, said trigger member having a clasp carrying portion and being positionable in a first, clasp carrying position and a second, clasp setting position, the triggering of said trigger member causing said plunger member and said clasp carrying portion to be forcibly driven towards each other to engage at an intermediate alignment member operably associated with said barrel portion the end surface of said plunger member having a recess receiving a separable and disposable stud driver wherein said stud driver has an integral construction having a solid, cylindrical portion adapted to be received in said plunger member and enlarged, annular flange and an extending, hollow, cylindrical portion adapted to loosely receive the head of a stud therein, said clasp carrying portion, intermediate alignment member and said stud driver being releasably and disposably retained in operative relationship for singular, sterile, stud and clasp implacement in an earlobe or the like.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.