Device for facilitating engagement and disengagement between needles and associated syringes and sheaths and for receiving sharps
AssigneeCambridge Marketing, Inc.
InventorsJerome D. Ballard, Carol H. Ballard, Timothy D. Giles
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Abstract
A device for manipulation of a syringe needle and for sharps disposal is provided. Beneficially, in one aspect, single-handed use of the device is facilitated. In another aspect, the device includes advantageous features for guiding a needle tip into a needle cap. In yet other aspects, the device beneficially includes a protective cover which prevents accidental loss of used sharps from the device, and the device includes an aperture which engages a needle cap by cutting into the needle cap.
Claims20
A device for manipulation of a syringe needle and for receiving sharps comprising a hollow chamber for receiving sharps, a wall provided with at least one aperture adapted for capping and uncapping a syringe needle, and a base comprising a first adhesive surface, in combination with a surgical drape comprising on its underside a second adhesive surface.
A device for manipulation of a syringe needle and for receiving sharps comprising a hollow chamber for receiving sharps and an opening to said hollow chamber, and an end wall provided with at least one aperture adapted for capping and uncapping a syringe needle, wherein said end wall comprises at least one flange portion and is provided with a peripheral rim which extends from said end wall so that said at least one aperture is within a space defined by said rim, and wherein said opening is in a wall disposed generally perpendicular to said end wall.
A device for manipulation of a syringe needle and for receiving sharps comprising a hollow chamber for receiving sharps, an opening to said hollow chamber, an end wall provided with at least one aperture adapted for capping and uncapping a syringe needle, and a cover comprising a leg portion adapted to frictionally engage said opening and an end portion adapted to cover said at least one aperture.
A device for manipulation of a syringe needle and for receiving sharps comprising a hollow chamber for receiving sharps, an opening to said hollow chamber, and an end wall provided with at least one aperture adapted for capping and uncapping a syringe needle, wherein said at least one aperture tapers inwardly, and the end wall structure defining said at least one aperture is of sufficient cross-section and is a harder material than a polypropylene needle cap such that when a polypropylene needle cap is engaged in the at least one inwardly tapered aperture, said end wall remains rigid and said aperture cuts into the needle cap.
A device facilitating engagement and disengagement between a syringe needle and a syringe, the device comprising:
- a base, an end wall upstanding from said base and provided with an aperture therethrough, a cap for a syringe needle fixedly mounted in said aperture, and walls enclosing said cap, one of said walls enclosing said cap comprising an opening therein;
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- a cover having a first portion configured to frictionally engage said opening in said one of said walls and a second portion that prevents access to said cap when said first portion is frictionally engaged in said opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.