Needle devices for medical use
AssigneeOwen Mumford Limited
InventorsJeremy Marshall, Stuart Weekes
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Abstract
A skin pricker has a barrel (1) housing a lancet (3) which is urged rearwardly by a spring (4 ). A plunger (2) can move the lancet (3) against the spring (4) to project the lancet's needle tip or tips (18) from the forward end of the barrel (1). The plunger (2) presses on the rear of the lancet (3) through a firing pin (16) integrally formed with the plunger and connected to it by a thin web (17). Increased pressure after needle tip projection shears the web and the lancet (3) is free to be returned by the spring (4), withdrawing the needle tip or tips.
Claims10
A needle device comprising a body with a needle at its forward end for skin penetration and an actuating member for exerting pressure on the body from the rearward end in the needle direction, the actuating member having a coupling to the body which includes a connection that fractures under pressure above a predetermined limit thereby to render the device non-re-usable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.