Hypodermic syringe tray
AssigneeAmerican Home Products Corporation
InventorsStephen W. Goodsir, Dominic A. Ventura
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Abstract
A hypodermic syringe tray adapted to hold at least one hypodermic syringe, comprising a barrel, plunger, cannula and cannula cover, in such manner as to secure said cannula cover and said plunger during thermal sterilization of the syringe and its contents.
Claims10
In a package bottom tray comprising a bottom, side walls and end walls, constructed to house at least one sterile, disposable hypodermic syringe equipped with a deformable cannula cover and containing a sterile liquid, the improvement which comprises cannula cover- and plunger-securing means disposed in such manner as to minimally exert an equal and opposite force to that exerted against said cannula cover and plunger by thermal expansion of liquid contained within said syringe, said cannula cover securing means abutting the distal end of the syringe ferrule, locking said cannula cover thereo.
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