Surgery – Instruments – Cutting – puncturing or piercing
Patent
1996-05-20
1998-04-21
Buiz, Michael
Surgery
Instruments
Cutting, puncturing or piercing
606181, 606204, A61B 1734
Patent
active
057412910
ABSTRACT:
An acupuncture needle assembly includes an outer tubular member having an upper portion tube with open upper and lower ends, and with an elongated slot in the lower end, and a lower portion tube with open upper and lower ends and secured to the upper portion tube; a plug with an opening secured to the open upper end of the upper portion tube; an operating bar slidably positioned through the plug and in the outer tubular member, and having an upper part extending out through the upper end of the upper portion tube and having helical threads, a lower part for holding one end of a needle such that an opposite end of the needle can extend through the open lower end of the lower portion tube, and a hole in the lower part; a pin secured in the hole in the operating bar and slidable in the elongated slot in the upper portion tube to prevent rotation of the operating bar in the outer tubular member, while permitting axial movement of the operating bar in the outer tubular member; a cap securable to the lower end of the operating bar for securing one end of the needle to the lower end of the operating bar; an adjustment nut threadedly engaged on the upper part of the operating bar, to limit downward movement of the operating bar through the outer tubular member; and a spring biasing the operating bar upwardly in the outer tubular member.
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Buiz Michael
Goldberg Richard M.
Mulcare Nancy
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