Container with a tangential port
AssigneeBaxter International Inc.
InventorsDaniel R. Lynn, Billy W. Minshall, Allen R. Wons, David P. Fisher
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Abstract
A container has first and second walls, each formed of a thermoplastic sheet having a peripheral edge. A peripheral seal joins the peripheral edges together to form an interior chamber enclosed by the first and second walls. A port communicates with the interior chamber. The port is spaced from and does not extend through the peripheral seal. The port comprises a hollow thermoplastic tube, which extends through a slit in one of the first and second sheets and is oriented tangentially thereto. The slit is fused by heat about the tube, forming a heat fused junction. A medical product or a blood filter material can be housed in the interior chamber.
Claims4
A container comprising first and second walls each formed of a thermoplastic sheet having a peripheral edge a peripheral seal joining the peripheral edges together to form an interior chamber enclosed by the first and second walls, and a port communicating with the interior chamber spaced from and not extending through the peripheral seal, the port comprising a hollow thermoplastic tube extending through a slit in one of the first and second sheets and being oriented tangentially to the one sheet, the slit being fused by heat about the tube forming a heat fused junction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.