SNAKE BITE KIT

• US 3,742,954 A
• Filed: 02/22/1972
• Issued: 07/03/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 02/22/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Frederick W. Strickland
• Original Assignee: Frederick W. Strickland
• Inventors: Strickland, Frederick W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosenbaum, Charles F.
• Application Number:
  US05/227,730
• Time in Patent Office: 497 Days
• Field of Search: 128/276-278,297,300,302,314
• US Class Current: 604/22
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/08 Cupping glasses , i.e. for enhancing blood circulation

Abstract

A snake bite kit having an elongated handle on one end of which is a lancing device with a poison extractor telescopically mounted along the other end of the handle. The lancing device is provided with a pair of cutting blades mounted on a flat spring with a trigger arrangement for releasing the blades in the cutting action. The poison extractor consists of a tubular member having a valved mouthpiece at one end for creating a suction in order to draw blood and the snake poison from one'"'"''"'"'s flesh.

Claims

1. A snake bite kit comprising an elongated handle member having an open chamber at one end, cutting blades, resilient means yieldingly mounting said blades in said chamber, trigger means pivotally mounted on said handle engaging and restraining said blades from swinging out of said chamber, means actuating said trigger for releasing said blades and swinging said blades beyond said chamber, further means mounted on said blades for returning said blades to said engaged position with said trigger means, a suction device telescopically mounted on said elongated handle, said suction device forming a chamber open at one end when removed from said handle, a duct at said other end, check valve means mounted in said duct, and a tubular tip member mounted at said duct to permit a person to withdraw air from said chamber past said valve and through said tubular tip member when said open end of said suction device has been placed on an incised flesh of a person bitten by a poisonous snake and the partial vacuum in said chamber withdraws blood and poison from said wound.

2. The structure as recited by claim 1 wherein said resilient means comprises a flat spring embedded at one end and said cutting blades mounted at the other end, said chamber having a first opening in alignment with said cutting blades, said chamber having a second opening with pivot means mounting said trigger means at said second opening, a second spring engaging said trigger means yieldingly maintaining said blades in engaged position whereby upon pivoting said trigger means said blades are released to swing through said first opening, and said further means comprises a rod extending through slots in said chamber and secured to said cutting blades for returning said blades to said engaged position with said trigger means.

3. The structure as recited by claim 2 wherein said check valve comprises a valve seat, a ball valve normally seated on said valve seat and a coil spring yieldingly urging said ball to be seated on said valve seat.