Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
Patent
1995-10-13
1999-11-16
McDermott, Corrine
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
604208, 604218, A61M 500
Patent
active
059848979
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to dispensers for dispensing a dosage of a drug, this dispenser comprising a housing forming a cylinder which is at one end closed by an end wall provided with an outlet pipe, and at the other end closed by a plunger projecting from this open end of the cylinder and being axially displaceable into the cylinder towards the end wall.
Such dispensers are described in EP 407 276 and Danish patent application No. 1985/91. Whereas these publications describe excellent solutions of the dispensing problem, they do not deal with the security demands which must be made on such dispensers. These demands are: in the cylinder. is used or unused.
These demands may be fulfilled by a dispenser of the kind described in the introduction of this specification, which dispenser is characterized in that the outer end of the plunger is secured to the inner side of the bottom of a cup shaped cap which slides over the outer side of the cylinder when the plunger is pressed into this cylinder, the upper edge of the cylinder being provided with outwardly projecting hooks sliding in corresponding grooves in the inner surface of the side wall of the cap, these grooves ending at a distance from the edge of the open end of the cup, and openings being provided through the side wall of the cap at the ends of the grooves at the bottom of the cap.
A dispenser designed along these lines will fulfil the demands, as when engaging the grooves in the inner surface of the side wall of the cap, the hooks will abut the edge formed where the grooves end near the open end of the cap, and this will prevent the cap from being pulled off the cylinder once it has been mounted. When the piston is pressed home in the cylinder, the cap will slide over this cylinder, and the hooks will reach the openings through the wall of the cap near the bottom of this cap at the ends of the grooves, and the hooks will snap into these openings and thereby prevent the cap and consequently the plunger from being drawn back once it has been pressed home in the cylinder. The appearance of the device changes conspicuously when the device is used, as after use the cap hides the outer surface of the cylinder, and the hooks become visible in the openings at the bottom of the cap. Further, the hooks snapping into the openings will give an auditive indication of the fact that the plunger has been pressed home and the dosage is expelled.
Appropriately, a finger grip may be provided secured to the closed end of the cylinder, this finger grip comprising an annular part fitting over the closed end of the cylinder and having an inward flange abutting the end wall of this cylinder. When the cap is intended to slide over the cylinder, finger grips cannot be provided at the open end of the cylinder as they are in the known syringes. By the provision of the finger grips at the lower end of the cylinder as a separately moulded part secured to the cylinder, mouldings on the outer side of the barrel providing a local increase of the thickness of the wall are avoided. Local increases of the thickness of the wall could provoke unwanted sink marks on the inner surface of the cylinder during the hardening of the moulding material.
When the finger grip and the cap, the plunger, and the cylinder are made of differently coloured materials, the changes of the appearance of the device when changing from non-used to used condition become more conspicuous. The closed end of the cylinder being covered by the finger grip leaves the colour of the cylinder visible as long as the cylinder is not covered by the cap, i.e. in the non-used condition. In this condition also the colour of the plunger is visible through the openings at the bottom of the cap. When the device is used, and the cap covers the cylinder, the device will appear with the colour of the cap and the colour of the finger grip, and the colour seen in the openings will change from the colour of the plunger to the colour of the cylinder, as the hooks at the edge of the cylinder will appear in the openings, and the colour of th
REFERENCES:
patent: 4091812 (1978-05-01), Helixon
Elk Svend
Koster Hans
Petersen Kim Stengaard
Gring Kent
McDermott Corrine
Novo Nordisk A S
Zelson Esq. Steve T.
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