SYRINGE PACKAGE

• US 3,783,996 A
• Filed: 03/14/1972
• Issued: 01/08/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sherwood Medical Company (Medtronic Plc)
• Original Assignee: John D. Ruck, William L. Gerard
• Inventors: Gerard, William L., Ruck, John D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dixson, Jr., William T.
• Application Number:
  US05/234,560
• Time in Patent Office: 665 Days
• Field of Search: 206/17.5,16.5,16.6,43,69,63.2R
• US Class Current: 206/364
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/0262 manually, e.g. by squeezing a bulb
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/807 Tamper proof

Abstract

A three-piece syringe package which, when separated, is adapted to contain a fluid for performing an irrigation procedure. The package has a tubular base portion and a tubular cap portion separated by a tubular collar, the latter having a central opening receiving the syringe. A sealing tape joins the base, cap and collar such that the interior of the package may be sterilized as a completed unit.

Claims

1. A syringe package comprising a base member having a closed end and an open end, a cap member having a closed end and an open end, a collar having an axial opening for receiving the barrel of a syringe to hold a syringe centrally in said base and cap members, said collar having an end portion telescopically receiving one of said members with a radial space between telescoping portions thereof which connects with the interior of said one member, an opposite collar end portion telescopically receiving the open end of the other oF said members, and an intermediate laterally outwardly extending collar portion defining opposed shoulders engageable respectively with the open ends of said base and cap members to space the open ends thereof apart, closure means secured to said base and cap members and said collar for detachably joining them to form a relatively rigid package, said intermediate collar portion having at least one axially extending recess in the periphery thereof providing a gas path connected with said radial space, said closure means permitting the flow of sterilizing gas from the exterior of the package into said recess so that sterilizing gas passes through said recess and said radial space and into the interior of said one member of the package.

2. The syringe package as set forth in claim 1 wherein said intermediate collar portion has an axial passage therethrough within the interior of the package to pass sterilizing gas from the interior of said one member to the interior of said other member.

3. The syringe package as set forth in claim 1 wherein said closure means includes sealing tape having an adhesive coating thereon, said tape extends around said intermediate collar portion with portions of said tape adhering to said base and cap members.

4. The syringe package as set forth in claim 3 wherein said intermediate collar portion includes a plurality of axially extending recesses in the periphery thereof connected with the interior of said one member and defining plural spaced lugs around said intermediate collar portion.

5. The syringe package as set forth in claim 3 further including spacing means between said telescoping portions of said collar and said one member to radially space the same apart.