Protective device
AssigneeSuperior Diapering Products Ltd.
InventorMarjorie L. Chase
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Abstract
A protective device to protect against needle stick injuries in health care. The device has a base. There are troughs in the base to receive and protect fingers. Each trough has an inner wall that, with the other inner side wall defines a retaining passage between the troughs and on its inner surface a grip for the fingers. The device may also be able to hold a sample tube and include an indent adjacent one edge to place over a subcutaneous implanted injection port.
Claims7
A protective device to protect against needle stick injuries in health care comprising:
- a base;
- a pair of troughs in the base to receive and protect the fingers, where the bottom of said pair of troughs is located in a plane different from that of the base, and
- each trough has an inner side wall and an opposed outer side wall;
- where the opposing inner side walls of the troughs are connected at the top of the trough, defining a retaining passage between the troughs and a grip for the fingers on the surface remote from the retaining passage.
A protective device to protect against needle stick injuries in health care comprising:
- a base comprised of a peripheral apron having a relatively wide area at one end with an opening dimensioned to receive a sample tube;
- a pair of troughs in the base to receive and protect fingers;
- each trough having an inner side wall and an opposed outer wall, said inner side walls of said trough defining a retaining passage between said troughs and a grip for the fingers on the sides remote from the retaining passage, the troughs depending towards a wall at one end to protect the fingers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.