TOOL FOR ADMINISTERING PILLS TO ANIMALS

• US 3,757,781 A
• Filed: 09/17/1971
• Issued: 09/11/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ray F. Smart
• Original Assignee: Ray F. Smart
• Inventors: Smart, Ray F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaudet, Richard A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): McGowan, J. C.
• Application Number:
  US05/181,533
• Time in Patent Office: 725 Days
• Field of Search: 128/264,217,231,261,260,265,263,221,271,127,130 221/268
• US Class Current: 604/59
• CPC Class Codes: A61D 7/00 Devices or methods for introducing solid, liquid, or gaseous remedies or other materials into or onto the bodies of animals for reproduction or fertilisation A61D19/00 ; devices for implanting pellets, radon seeds or the like A61M37/0069
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 37/0069 Devices for implanting pellets, e.g. markers or solid medicaments for introducing of radioactive sources for interstitial radiation therapy, i.e. brachytherapy A61N5/1027

Abstract

An elongated hollow sleeve having a split sleeve member constructed of resilient material telescoped over one end thereof and including a plunger insertable in the other end of the sleeve. The other end of the sleeve and the plunger include coacting portions for support of the tool in one hand and manipulation of the plunger for projecting the latter through the sleeve and into the sleeve member whereby a tablet or capsule frictionally supported within the split sleeve member may be ejected therefrom by the plunger when the tool has been positioned with the split sleeve member disposed in the back of the mouth of an animal to which a medicant is to be administered. In addition, the tool further includes a squeeze bulb removably engageable with the end of the sleeve remote from the sleeve member after removal of the plunger in order that the tool may also be used in the manner of an eye dropper for administering liquid medicants.

Claims

1. A straight elongated tubular body having a longitudinal bore extending therethrough, an elongated resilient and slightly radially expandable sleeve, a first end portion of said sleeve being slightly expanded and removably telescoped over one end of said body, the other end portion of said sleeve having circumferentially spaced endwise outwardly opening longitudinally extending radial slots formed therein and projecting endwise outwardly from said one end of said tubular body, a straight elongated plunger having a diametrically enlarged head on one end, the other end of said plunger being removably slidingly telescoped into said bore from said other end of said body and projectable through said bore from said one end of said body into the interior of said other end portion of said sleeve, the length of said plunger, from said other end thereof to said diametrically enlarged portion thereof being generally equal to the length of said body plus the length of the endwise outwardly projecting other end portion of said sleeve, the other end of said body being provided with a radially outwardly projecting circumferentially extending enlargement spaced from the corresponding terminal end of said body and provided with a circumferential groove generally semicircular in cross-sectional shape, the radius of curvature of said groove being such to enable the adjacent sides of the first and second fingers of the user of the tool to be seatingly received in diametrically opposite portions of the groove, the end portion of said bore opening through said one end of said body tapering at least slightly toward its open end, the end of said elongated plunger disposed in said one end of said body being diametrically reduced throuGhout a longitudinal extent of said plunger greater than the longitudinal extent of the tapering portion of said bore and reciprocal through said tapered portion.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein said body is constructed of transparent material and said one end of said body includes longitudinally spaced indicia.