Method of applying a shield to a hypodermic needle

• US 3,200,486 A
• Filed: 09/16/1963
• Issued: 08/17/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Walter A. Shields
• Original Assignee: Walter A. Shields
• Inventors: Shields, Walter A.
• Application Number:
  US04/309,035
• Time in Patent Office: 701 Days
• US Class Current: 29/422
• 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: Y10T 29/49808 Shaping container end to encapsulate material
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Claims

1. THE METHOD OF APPLYING A PROTECTIVE SHIELD ON ONE END PORTION OF A HYPODERMIC NEEDLE MOUNTEDI N A CAP MEMBER WITH THE FIRST END PORTION OF THE HYPODERMIC NEEDLE EXTENDED FROM THE EXTERIOR OF SAID CAP MEMBER AND THE SECOND END PORTION OF THE HYPODERMIC NEEDLE EXTEND INTO THE CAP MEMBER, COMPRISING FEEDING TUBING OF PROTECTIVE MATERIAL AND OF GREATER LENGHT THAN THE SECOND END PORTION OF THE HYPODERMIC NEEDLE ONTO SAID SECOND END PORTION OF THE HYPODERMIC NEEDLE WITH THE FORWARD END OF THE TUBING ABUTTING THE INTERIOF OF THE CAP MEMBER, COLLAPSING SPACED PORTIONS OFTHE TUBING TO CLOSE THE TUBING AROUND THE SECOND END PORTION OF THE HYPODERMIC NEEDLE AND AT A POINT BEYOND THE EXTREMITY OF THE SECOND END PORTION OF THE HYPODERMIC NEEDLE, AND SEVERING THE TUBING BEYOND THE COLLAPSED PORTION POSITIONED BEYOND THE EXTEMITY OF THE SECOND END PORTION OF THE HYPODERMIC NEEDLE.