Intravenous catheter housing with retractable needle

Details Intravenous catheter housing with retractable needle Intravenous catheter housing with retractable needle

2005-08-16

2005-08-16

Hayes, Michael J. (Department: 3763)

Surgery

Means for introducing or removing material from body for...

Treating material introduced into or removed from body...

C604S164070

Reexamination Certificate

active

06929624

ABSTRACT:
A catheter housing assembly having a housing, a needle assembly with a rigid portion and a flexible portion, a recoil device positioned in an interior area of the housing for coiling the flexible portion of the needle assembly therearound, and a trigger connected to the housing so as to retract the rigid portion of the needle into the interior area of the housing. The rigid portion of the needle assembly extends tangentially outwardly of the housing. The flexible portion of the needle assembly has a bead, a flexible line extending through the bead, a first rigid spacer connected to the rigid portion of the needle assembly and a plurality of additional rigid spacers interposed in jointed relationship between the bead and the first rigid spacer.

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