Special receptacle or package – Nonspooled filamentary material
Patent
1992-05-07
1993-11-23
Gehman, Bryon P.
Special receptacle or package
Nonspooled filamentary material
206 633, 206408, 242129, 242159, B65D 8504, A61B 1706, B65H 1828
Patent
active
052635856
ABSTRACT:
A package for an elongated flexible fiber. The package comprises a pair of package portions which define a fiber receiving cavity therein. Lips around the perimeter of the package allow a fiber to be wrapped thereon and passed between the lips into the fiber receiving cavity. Each package portion defines a fiber end receiving cavity therein, each fiber end receiving cavity being adapted for receiving an end of the fiber. Each fiber receiving cavity may be deflected away from the opposite package portion, thereby freeing the corresponding end of the fiber. The natural spring action of the elastically flexible fiber will cause the end of the fiber to pop radially outwardly from the package. Terminals, operating tips and other devices may be attached to the ends of the fibers. After both ends of the fiber have been thus freed, the package may be repositioned along the length of extended fiber by simply rolling it so that one section of the fiber is rewound into the package, and the other section is further unwound therefrom. The invention is particularly adapted for use with light transmitting fibers, such as used with surgical lasers in medical environments. The package and fiber may be easily sterilized prior to use, and after use the fiber may be rewound into the package for easy disposal as biomedical waste. In non-medical areas, such as light transmitting fibers in the communication industry, the package is reusable.
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Exhibits A1, A2, B1 and B2--Polaroid photographs.
Gardetto William W.
Lawhon Harvey A.
Gehman Bryon P.
MicroBioMed Corporation
MyriadLase, Inc.
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