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Vaccinating devices

  • US 3,136,314 A
  • Filed: 08/01/1960
  • Issued: 06/09/1964
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/01/1960
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A DEVICE FOR APPLYING A BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCE TO THE SKIN OF A PERSON BY PROVIDING SIMULTANEOUS MULTIPLE SKIN PUNCTURES COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION:

  • A PLURALITY OF SPACED, ELONGATED, POINTS CLUSTERED IN A PRE-DETERMINED PATTERN INTO A PRE-SELECTED REGULAR AREA WHOSE WIDTH DIMENSION IS IN THE ORDER OF 0.3 CENTIMETER;

    A RIGID, PRESSURE-TRANSMITTING BASE SUPPORTING THE CLUSTER OF POINTS CENTRALLY THEREOF ON ONE SIDE OF THE BASE, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BASE PROVIDING A MANUALLY ENGAGEABLE AREA THAT IS MANY TIMES GREATER THAN THE AREA IN WHICH THE POINTS ARE CLUSTERED AND AGAINST WHICH MANUAL PRESSURE MAY BE EXERTED DURING AN OPERATION, OF APPLICATION OF THE BIOLOGICAL SUBSTANCE, BY PRESSING THE CLUSTER OF POINTS AGAINST A SELECTED SKIN AREA OF A PERSON;

    AND A RAISED PLATFORM LOCATED CENTRALLY ON SAID BASE AND PROJECTING ABRUPTLY FROM SAID BASE AND BEING OF SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME AREA AS THE PRE-SELECTED AREA IN WHICH THE POINTS ARE CLUSTERED AND HAVING A WIDTH DIMENSION IN THE ORDER OF 0.3 CENTIMETER, AND SAID CLUSTER OF POINTS EXTENDING OUTWARDLY FROM SAID PLATFORM AND BEING OF A LENGTH TO EFFECT PENETRATION INTO THE DEEPER LAYER OF THE EPIDERMIS, BUT BEING SHORT ENOUGH SO THAT BLOOD WILL NOT BE DRAWN OR WILL RESULT IN SECONDARY INFECTION.

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