SYRINGE AND NEEDLE COVER REMOVER

• US 20120029439A1
• Filed: 11/17/2009
• Published: 02/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Owen Mumford
• Original Assignee: Owen Mumford
• Inventors: Hudson, Christopher, Nicholls, Clive
• Granted Patent: US 8,998,855 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/192
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/3215 Tools enabling the cap placement
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3202 Devices for protection of the needle before use, e.g. caps A61M5/50 takes precedence; for infusion spikes A61M5/1626; protectors for sharps A61B50/3001
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3204 Needle cap remover, i.e. devices to dislodge protection cover from needle or needle hub, e.g. deshielding devices

Abstract

Apparatus for loading into an injection device and comprising a syringe and a boot remover. The syringe has a syringe body, a needle and a boot providing a sterile cover for the needle. The boot remover has a body for substantially enclosing the boot and a lip or lips projecting inwardly to engage a junction between the boot and the syringe body. The boot remover also has, at its widest point, substantially the same outer dimension as, or a smaller outer dimension than, the syringe body. The apparatus can be loaded into an injection device through an opening at a distal end of the device such that, when loaded, a portion of the boot remover projects through a proximal end of the device to facilitate removal of the boot remover and boot by a user. This arrangement allows a user to remove the boot from the syringe by holding and pulling on said grip.

Claims

1. An apparatus for loading into an injection device and comprising:

a syringe having a syringe body, a needle and a boot providing a sterile cover for the needle; and

a boot remover, the boot remover having a body for substantially enclosing the boot and a lip or lips projecting inwardly to engage a junction between the boot and the syringe body, the boot remover having, at its widest point, substantially the same outer dimension as, or a smaller outer dimension than, the syringe body, wherein the apparatus can be loaded into an injection device through an opening at a distal end of the device such that, when loaded, a portion of the boot remover projects through a proximal end of the device to facilitate removal of the boot remover and boot by a user.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the projecting portion of the boot remover is provided with a gripping formation for assisting removal of the boot remover and boot by the user.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, said gripping formation being a waist or undercut to aid gripping by a user and/or to allow the grip to be engaged by a secondary boot removal tool held by the user.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, the boot remover being formed as two substantially identical portions provided with complimentary interlocking features such that the identical portions can be placed around the boot and snapped together to cause the lip or lips to engage said junction.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein said two substantially identical portions are hingeably connected together.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, the boot remover comprising a single moulded component provided with a slot extending in an axial direction along said body from said lip or lips, the slot being dimensioned to allow a boot to be loaded into the opening within the body in a transverse direction such that said lip or lips engage the junction between the boot and the syringe body.

7. An injection device comprising apparatus of claim 1, wherein the device further comprises means for assisting with the injection of medicament from the syringe.