Surgery – Means for introducing or removing material from body for... – Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
Patent
1992-03-09
1994-05-03
Yasko, John D.
Surgery
Means for introducing or removing material from body for...
Treating material introduced into or removed from body...
604218, A61M 500
Patent
active
053083288
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention refers to a disposable or single-use syringe, the structure of which is such that after it has been used once it is impossible to use it again.
At the present time a number of single-use or disposable syringes are known, and which are used by medical staff both for giving injections and for extracting blood, or other similar uses.
The use of disposable or single-use syringes is a general practice in order to prevent all kinds of contagions, and this is becoming widespread among those persons addicted to drugs, in which case a single syringe is used several times over and even by several people, with the subsequent risk of contracting certain illnesses, ranging from the normal or typical hepatitis to the serious and fatal AIDS.
Undoubtedly there are syringes that have been constructed in such a way as to make re-use difficult, although in all cases they can be, and indeed are, tampered with and adapted by drug addicts so that they can be used again.
The syringe put forward here has been designed and conceived in such a way that, once it has been used, there is no possibility of its being used again as, on the one hand, a single use results in the cylinder no longer being usable and, on the other hand, tampering with the syringe in order to try to re-use the piston results in the end itself or the seal provided at the end of the piston being unusable. The syringe therefore cannot be used more than once even should an attempt be made to tamper with it.
To be exact, the syringe put forward is made up, in the conventional way, of a cylinder with a piston that moves up and down the cylinder. At the free end of the piston there is a seal to ensure that the liquid is drawn in correctly, as well as to inject the liquid previously drawn in. On the basis of this structure, the syringe in question shows the particular feature of the seal at the end of the piston being attached to the latter by means of one or more radial arms provided at the end of the piston, and which are hinged at the point of attachment or assembly in such a way that, during suction, the arm or arms can slide along the inside surface of the external cylindrical body whereas, during the impulse movement, the arm or arms, which have a pointed end and a sharpened or cutting section, produce a piercing action with the subsequent cutting of the cylindrical body during the impulse movement of the piston. In this way, the external cylindrical body is rendered useless after the syringe has been used for the first time. Should an attempt be made to tamper with the syringe in order to use it again, the only thing that can be done is to dismantle the cutting arm or arms but this involves dismantling the seal, which could no longer be attached to the piston since this must be done precisely by means of the aforementioned cutting arm or arms.
So as to make it easier to understand the features of this invention, there follows a detailed description on the basis of a set of drawings attached to the description, forming an integral part of the same, and in which the following has been depicted merely as a guide and in a non-restrictive way .
FIG. 1 shows a sectional view of the part of the syringe to which the improvement has been added, and corresponds to the syringe's absorption or suction stage during which the cutting arms are partially brought in and can slide along the inside of the external cylindrical body without the latter suffering any damage.
FIG. 2 is the same drawing as FIG. 1 but showing the impulse or ejection movement, with the cutting arms severing the external cylindrical body as the piston advances.
FIG. 3 shows another, similar view but with a different cutting-arm shape, the arms in this case being made up of a single-piece body with two opposing sections.
As can be seen in these figures, and in particular the first two, the syringe in question comprises the standard external cylindrical body (1) and the piston (2) which moves along the inside of the body (1). To the inside end of the piston is fitted the corresponding seal (3)
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