Swabbable needleless valve

Details Swabbable needleless valve Swabbable needleless valve

1997-08-28

1999-07-13

Chambers, A. Michael

Fluid handling

Processes

Cleaning, repairing, or assembling

2511491, 604256, 604905, F16L 3728

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059212640

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and method wherein a housing with an outlet has a cap with an inlet and is affixed to the housing with a flexible flange that depends from the inlet of the cap to engage and circumferentially seal a fitting as it enters the inlet, the housing containing an interior seat for a flexible plug that extends within the housing to the cap for circumferentially sealing the inlet at the flexible flange, with the plug expanding from a circular to an elliptical cross section by the insertion of a Luer fitment into the inlet of the cap to a stop position within the housing, and the plug having an interior passageway extending from an open end to a head with a slit extending therethrough at the inlet.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5269771 (1993-12-01), Thomas et al.
patent: 5308336 (1994-05-01), Hart et al.
patent: 5699821 (1997-12-01), Paradis

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