Dispensing – Collapsible wall-type container – With wall-collapsing means
Patent
1997-02-14
1999-03-16
Douglas, Steven O.
Dispensing
Collapsible wall-type container
With wall-collapsing means
251 6, 606209, A61B 1700
Patent
active
058819169
ABSTRACT:
An instrument for use with resilient tubing such as wound drainage tubing, catheters, chest tubing, common duct T tubing, I.V. tubing and other deformable tubing comprising in combination a U-shaped body having a pair of cylindrical rollers mounted for rotation on each end of the opened end of the U-shaped body, said rollers being oriented parallel to each other and to the sides of the U-shaped body, spaced apart and in relationship for movement into and out of engagement with opposite sides of the tubing whereby the user's hand can grasp the U-shaped body for moving the rollers at right angles to and against the tubing while also moving the rollers along the length of the tubing and where the U-shaped body has sufficient spring force to retain the device on the tubing when not in use and where the rollers are secured by a pair of slotted tabs affixed to each side of the open end of the U-shaped body and allow the rollers to be removed and inter-changed with rollers of various sizes to accommodate correspondingly sized tubing and the rollers and tabs are kept in allignment by an end retainer and a guide retainer disposed at the ends of the cylindrical rollers, respectively.
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Douglas Steven O.
Naragon Frederic E.
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