BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION ASSEMBLY

• US 3,557,778 A
• Filed: 11/18/1968
• Issued: 01/26/1971
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Elbert L. Hughes
• Original Assignee: Elbert L. Hughes
• Inventors: Hughes, Elbert L.
• Application Number:
  US04/776,347
• Time in Patent Office: 799 Days
• US Class Current: 600/579
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/15003 for venous or arterial blood
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150221 Valves
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150259 Improved gripping, e.g. with high friction pattern or projections on the housing surface or an ergonometric shape
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150351 Caps, stoppers or lids for sealing or closing a blood collection vessel or container, e.g. a test-tube or syringe barrel caps for bottles or containers in general B65D41/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150389 Hollow piercing elements, e.g. canulas, needles, for piercing the skin
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150496 Details of construction of hub, i.e. element used to attach the double-ended needle to a piercing device or sampling device
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/154 Devices using pre-evacuated means
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2039/242 designed to open when a predetermined pressure or flow rate has been reached, e.g. check valve actuated by fluid
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2039/2473 Valve comprising a non-deformable, movable element, e.g. ball-valve, valve with movable stopper or reciprocating element
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2039/248 Ball-valve
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 39/24 Check- or non-return valves

Abstract

A blood specimen collection assembly having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet with valve means disposed within the assembly for movement to and from an open and closed position whereby to prevent the backflow of testing fluid from a specimen receptacle, which is coupled with the assembly, into the patient'"'"''"'"'s bloodstream during use of the assembly. The specimen receptacle is in the form of an evacuated container and is coupled with the collection assembly when the same is in use, the receptacle being in communication with the assembly to provide negative pressure through the assembly for opening the valve and withdrawing the specimen, the valve resuming its closed position upon filling of the receptacle.

Claims

1. A blood specimen collection assembly comprising:

a partially evacuated specimen receptacle;

a body having a chamber provided with a fluid inlet at one end and a fluid outlet at the opposite end, said chamber having a conical sidewall adjacent said fluid inlet and a plurality of radially spaced flutes adjacent said fluid outlet, surrounding said outlet and extending into said chamber;

a hollow needle extending from said one end of the body and in fluid communication with the chamber through said inlet;

a fitting closing said opposite end of the chamber and having said fluid outlet formed therein, said fluid outlet being in communication with said receptacle; and

check valve means in said chamber to permit flow of fluid through said chamber in one direction only, said check valve means including a ball larger in diameter than said fluid inlet and shiftable from a position in engagement with said conical wall whereby to close said fluid inlet and a position supported by said flutes in spaced relationship from said fluid outlet whereby to permit flow of fluid through said chamber, out of said outlet and into said receptacle.