Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
Patent
1991-01-25
1992-04-14
Yasko, John D.
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
604198, 604263, A61M 532
Patent
active
051043840
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to injection devices, such as syringes, and accessories therefor.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
After use of a syringe to perform an injection or take up a sample of blood from a patient, there is a risk that doctors or nurses will accidentally prick themselves with the needle of the syringe. This phenomenon is known as "needle stick" and can be highly dangerous due to the risk of transfer of blood-related diseases.
DESCRIPTION OF THE RELATED ART
European Patent Specification No. 0268445A discloses an accessory for an injection device of the kind in which liquid is drawn or expelled along a hollow needle, the accessory comprising a protective sleeve for surrounding the needle and having two sleeve parts which are movable relative to one another in the direction of the length of the needle from a contracted position, in which the point of the needle projects from the sleeve to an extent to enable an injection to be effected, to an extended position, in which the point of the needle is located within the sleeve to shield the point of the needle. Such an accessory will be referred to hereinafter as "an accessory of the type referred to".
In order to substantially eliminate the danger of needle stick after the injection has been performed, the disclosed accessory includes retaining means for retaining the sleeve in the extended position after the injection has been effected and for preventing the point of the needle from being exposed solely by application of pressure to the end of the sleeve in the direction of contracting movement and biasing means for resiliently biasing the sleeve towards its extended position.
It is to be understood that the term "injection device" is used in this context to cover both a device, such as a syringe or a drip feed, for introducing a substance into a site penetrated by a needle, and a device, such as a blood collection needle, for taking up a substance from a site penetrated by a needle.
OBJECTION OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide an improvement of the accessory of the type referred to.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
According to the present invention there is provided an accessory of the type referred to, in which the sleeve parts comprise an inner sleeve part and an outer sleeve part, and in which the two sleeve parts are guided relative to one another by a projection on one sleeve part engaging within a track in the other sleeve part, wherein at least a portion of the track is formed by a slot extending through the wall of a collar forming a portion of said other sleeve part which is separately formed from the remainder of said other sleeve part and which is fitted to an end portion of the remainder of said other sleeve part when the accessory is assembled.
Preferably the projection is provided on an outer surface of the inner sleeve part and the track is provided in an inner surface of the outer sleeve part, and the collar forms a portion of the outer sleeve part and is fitted within an end portion of the remainder of the outer sleeve part.
Such an arrangement is advantageous as it enables the projection on the inner sleeve part to be engaged within the slot in the collar prior to assembly of the collar within the end portion. Also it provides for ease of forming of the track during manufacture since a through-slot having a complex shape can easily be formed in the wall of the collar prior to insertion of the collar such that the end portion surrounds the portion of the collar in which the slot is formed. This avoids the need to form a track of complex shape in the inner wall of the outer sleeve part by means of an inner mandrel from which the outer sleeve part must be subsequently removed and avoids distortion of the shape of the track caused by deformation of the outer sleeve part on removal from the inner mandrel.
The invention also provides an accessory of the type referred to in which retaining means are provided for retaining the sleeve in a partially contracted position in which t
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Sterimatic Holdings Limited
Yasko John D.
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