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US 6,551,819 B1Granted
Container for semen and other biological liquids
AssigneeMinitube of America, Inc.
InventorLudwig Simmet
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Abstract
A container for biological fluids useful in artificial insemination is disclosed. The inventive container has a nozzle for delivery of the biological liquid, wherein the nozzle has means for bending such that the container may be used in a vertical position while attached to a horizontal catheter. The nozzle also has means to facilitate opening the tube without tools.
Claims5
A stack of biological liquid containers, comprising:
- a first container having a hollow body of plastic material having a sealable first end through which biological liquid is introduced and a second end having an integrally molded nozzle having an inner diameter, wherein a wall connects the first end and the second end, portions of the nozzle which define a section which bends without forming kinks, the nozzle terminating in a tip having at least one tab extending therefrom, the tab being severable from the tip, the tip with the tab having a dimension which is greater than said nozzle inner diameter;
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- a second container, substantially identical to the first container, and received within the first container, wherein the second container tip tab engages against the first container second end, the second container tip with tab thus being too large to be inserted into the inner diameter of the first container nozzle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.