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US 4,634,428 AGranted
Cover for a disposable syringe
OwnerCwo-Liang Cuuinventor
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Abstract
A cover for a disposable syringe having a needle includes a cover body matchable with the syringe for covering therein the needle and a device, mounted in the cover body, for bending and retaining thereon the needle.
Claims7
A cover for destroying a needle on a disposable syringe after use, comprising:
- (a) a pair of tubular cover members, each being elongated in an axial direction lengthwise of the needle and bounding interiors in which the needle is enclosed;
- (b) one of the cover members being stationarily mounted on the syringe;
- (c) the other of the cover members being movably mounted on the one cover member for telescoping movement along the axial direction between extended and retracted positions in which the cover members axially overlap each other over a lesser and a greater distance respectively;
- (d) means for releasably holding the cover members in the extended position prior to use of the syringe to protect the needle;
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- (e) destroying means on the other cover member for bending the needle during said telescoping movement, and for retaining the needle within the other cover member even after said telescoping movement.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.