Electric heating – Metal heating – Cutting or disintegrating
Patent
1993-06-07
1994-07-12
Crane, Daniel C.
Electric heating
Metal heating
Cutting or disintegrating
7234296, A61G 1200, A61L 1100, B23K 1122
Patent
active
053290879
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus are disclosed for destroying syringe needles. The apparatus has an incinerator unit (16) into which a syringe needle may be inserted, crimped by a crimper (30), the needle measured between its tip and the sealing crimp, burned by passing an electric current corresponding to its measured length between the needle tip and the sealing crimp, and the burned needle severed by a cutting blade (36).
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Armstrong Douglas L.
Boylston Byron L.
Deveau Mark G.
Kohl Brad A.
Sadow Scott
Crane Daniel C.
Kohl Brad A.
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