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US 6,024,480 AGranted
Vial package for a bone cement mixer and dispenser
AssigneeImmedica
InventorsJames P. Seaton, Donald Barker
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InventorsJames P. Seaton, Donald Barker
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Lower and upper covers permanently secured together form a vial enclosing chamber in a cap assembly which encloses the top of a bone cement mixing apparatus mixing chamber having prepackaged premeasured bone cement powder. The vial contains a monomer bone cement liquid and may be glass. The vial has two valve seats in corresponding ports on opposing vial side walls sealed by a releaseably secured preferably glass valve member threaded to a nozzle attached to the cap assembly. The vial ports are aligned with a mixing chamber liquid inlet port to permit the cement liquid to flow into the mixing chamber from the opened valves. The vial may be supplied enclosed in a separate package and includes valves on a valve stem attached to the package for opening and sealing the vial. In the alternative, the vial is frangible glass and may be opened by fracturing it and retaining the fragments in the vial receiving chamber to release the liquid to the mixing chamber.
A vial package assembly for a liquid containing glass vial comprising:
A vial package assembly comprising:
A bone cement mixing apparatus for mixing a bone cement powder with a monomer liquid contained in a closed vial, said apparatus including a housing having a cement mixing chamber, at least one liquid receiving port and a mixed cement dispensing port, means coupled to the chamber for mixing bone cement powder and liquid in the chamber and for dispensing the mixed cement through said dispensing port, the combination therewith comprising:
A bone cement mixing device comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.