Ampoule applicator

• US 3,217,712 A
• Filed: 01/22/1963
• Issued: 11/16/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Anthony David, Walter K. Blumenstein
• Original Assignee: Anthony David, Walter K. Blumenstein
• Inventors: Blumenstein, Walter K., ANTHONY DAVID
• Application Number:
  US04/253,152
• Time in Patent Office: 1,029 Days
• US Class Current: 604/138
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/206 With automatic needle insertion
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/2033 Spring-loaded one-shot injectors with or without automatic needle insertion multishot dosing syringes A61M5/31525, needle insertion only A61M5/3287
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/282 by compression of deformable ampoule or carpule wall

Claims

2. IN A AMPOULE AMPLICATOR HAVING A TUBULAR BODY STRUCTURE, AMPOULE INJECTION PLUNGER AND PLUNGER ACTUATING MEANS DISPOSED WITHIN SAID TUBULAR BODY STRUCTURE, SAID PLUNGER ACTUATING MEANS INCLUDING A SPRING COMPRESSING SLIDE MEMBER MOVABLE IN SAID BODY STRUCTURE, A FIRST TOGGLE LINK PIVOTALLY CONNECTED AT ONE END TO AID SPRING COMPRESSING SLIDE MEMBER, A SECOND TOGGLE LINK PIVOTALLY CONNECTED AT ONE END TO SAID BODY STRUCTURE, SAID TOGGLE LINKS BEING PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO EACH OTHER AT A COMMON PIVOT POINT INTERMEDIATE SAID ENDS, OPERATING HANDLE MEANS SECURED TO SAID SECOND TOGGLE LINK, SAID BODY STRUCTURE HAVING A HANDLE RECEIVING SLOT AND SAID HANDLE EXTENDING THROUGH SAID SLOT AND BEING MOVABLE BETWEEN A PLUNGER RETRACTED POSITION AND A COCKED OR OPERATING POSITION, SAID HANDLE, WHEN IN SAID PLUNGER RETRACTED POSITION, EXTENDING AWAY FROM SAID BODY STRUCTURE AND EXPOSING A PORTION OF SAID SLOT, SAID FIRST TOGGLE LINK HAVING AN EXTENSION PROJECTING BEYOND SAID COMMON PIVOT POINT A DISTANCE SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO THE LENGTH OF THE PORTION OF SAID SLOT EXPOSED WHEN SAID HANDLE IS IN SAID PLUNGER RETRACTED POSITION, SAID EXTENSION BEING ADAPTED TO MOVE INTO POSITION TO CLOSE SAID PORTION OF SAID SLOT WHEN SAID HANDLE IS MOVED INTO SAID PLUNGER RETRACTED POSITION.