Disposable applicator
OwnerHarris A. Tiemann, Phillip D. Sharpinventors
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Abstract
A disposable applicator for implanting medicaments of various kinds into the human body without exposure of either the user or the recipient to pathogens of the other, and without exposure of either to latex rubber proteins. Differing variants may be sized variously for infants, children and adults, with various stop means for preventing insertion beyond a desired distance. In addition, other variants are particularly suited for use by untrained personnel or by persons with physical conditions which restrict their range of motion. A particularly preferred variant is sufficiently flexible so as to conform to body contours, thereby neither destroying nor irritating possibly sensitive skin tissue.
Claims15
A disposable suppository medicament applicator comprising:
- an applicator body having a plunger barrel formed therethrough from a plunger end thereof to a suppository receiving cavity formed at an insertion end thereof;
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- a plunger member having a flexible shaft, said flexible shaft having a plunger bulb secured to a first end of said flexible shaft and a thumb rest formed at a second end of said flexible shaft, said plunger bulb being sized to sealingly, slidingly contact a sidewall defining said suppository receiving cavity;
- said applicator body including a flexible bellows section having a plurality of circumferential accordion pleats formed therein in a manner to allow the position of said insertion end with respect to said plunger end to be adjusted by bending said bellows section to a desired angle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.