Intravenous needle and flow tube stabilizing means

• US 3,167,072 A
• Filed: 10/11/1962
• Issued: 01/26/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ellen Stone Hester, Virginia Anderson
• Original Assignee: Ellen Stone Hester, Virginia Anderson
• Inventors: ELLEN STONE HESTER, VIRGINIA ANDERSON
• Application Number:
  US04/229,931
• Time in Patent Office: 838 Days
• US Class Current: 604/179
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/024 having a clip or clamp system
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/02 Holding devices, e.g. on the body
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/26 Cannula supporters

Claims

1. A DEVICE FOR STABLY ANCHORING A HOLLOW SURGICAL NEEDLE AND COUPLED FLOW TUBE AT THE POINT OF APPLICATION OF SUCH NEEDLE TO A PATIENT, SAID DEVICE COMPRISING A CRADLE OF A LENGTH TO RECEIVE THE PROXIMATE ENDS OF THE COMPONENTS OF AN ASSEMBLY INCLUDING SUCH NEEDLE, TUBE AND ANY INTERMEDIATE COUPLING WHICH FUNCTIONALLY CONNECTS SUCH TUBE TO SUCH NEEDLE, SAID CRADLE INCLUDING A BOTTOM, SIDE WALLS EXTENDING UPWARDLY FROM SAID BOTTOM IN SPACED RELATIONSHIP TO EACH OTHER, TO FORM A TROUGH, SAID SPACING BEING SUCH AS TO CAUSE SAID WALLS TO FRICTIONALLY GRIP SUCH ASSEMBLY ADJACENT THE TUBE AND THEREOF WHEN POSITIONED IN SAID TROUGH WITH THE NEEDLE EXTENDING FROM AN END OF SAID TROUGH, A WALL JOINING SAID SIDE WALLS AT ONE END OF SAID TROUGH TO PROVIDE AN END WALL, SAID END WALL HAVING A NEEDLE RECEIVING PERFORATION THEREIN AND A SLIT FROM THE UPPER EDGE OF SAID END WALL TO SAID PERFORATION TO PERMIT DEPRESSING OF A NEEDLE DOWN THROUGH THE UPPER EDGE OF SAID END WALL TO LODGE THE SAME IN SAID PERFORATION, MEANS FOR SUPPORTING SUCH NEEDLE IN SAID CRADLE AT SUBSTANTIALLY THE DESIRED ENTRANCE ANGLE TO A VEIN OF A PATIENT, MEANS ADJACENT THE OPEN END OF SAID TROUGH FOR AT LEAST PARTIALLY ENCIRCLING SUCH ASSEMBLY WHEN INSTALLED SISTING DISLOCATION OF SUCH ASSEMBLY WHEN INSTALLED IN SAID TROUGH, AND MEANS FOR ADJUSTABLY INSTALLING SAID CRADLE IN POSITION ON A PATIENT.