HOLDER FOR INTRAVENOUS INJECTION CANNULA AND TUBING

• US 3,834,380 A
• Filed: 11/15/1972
• Issued: 09/10/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 11/15/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William A. Boyd
• Original Assignee: William A. Boyd
• Inventors: Boyd, William A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Truluck, Dalton L.
• Application Number:
  US05/306,610
• Time in Patent Office: 664 Days
• Field of Search: 128/348,349R,35R,351,214R,133,215,DIG.26 248/74A,25A
• US Class Current: 604/180
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/024 having a clip or clamp system
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2025/026 where the straps are releasably secured, e.g. by hook and loop-type fastening devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/02 Holding devices, e.g. on the body
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/26 Cannula supporters

Abstract

A holder for tubular items, particularly equipment used during intravenous injections, such as infusion tubing or the hub of an injection cannula, comprises a strip of adhesively-backed tape and a longitudinally split, elongate, cylindrical, clamping tube of flexible and preferably resilient plastic material securely attached to the top of the tape. A latch for positively keeping the clamping tube closed about a received item may be provided, preferably in the form of a securement flap attached to the clamping tube at one side thereof and interlocking means having component parts attached, respectively, to the securement flap and at the opposite side of the clamping tube. For holding both an injection cannula and infusion tubing during the administering of an intravenous liquid, two or more clamping tubes may be provided in juxtaposed position on a single piece of tape.

Claims

1. A holder for tubular items, especially items of equipment used during intravenous injections or the like, comprising a strip of adhesively-backed tape;

an elongate, cylindrical, clamping tube of flexible plastic material having a longitudinal split extending from end-to-end thereof, said clamping tube being firmly secured along the side thereof opposite said split to the upper face of said tape thereby forming mutually opposed, substantially semi-cylindrical, longitudinal projections extending along said tape which will flex open to receive the item to be held and wilL flex closed to hug said item; and

latching means on said holder and extending substantially the length of the clamping tube and across said split for holding the opposed, longitudinal, clamping tube projections in tightly hugging relationship about an item received by said clamping tube.

2. A holder according to claim 1, wherein the clamping tube and tape are of one-piece construction.

3. A holder according to claim 1, wherein one end of the clamping tube is beveled to facilitate placement of the item to be held in said clamping tube.

4. A holder according to claim 3, wherein the part of the interlocking means at the opposite side of the clamping tube is secured to the upper surface of the tape.

5. A holder according to claim 3, wherein the respective parts of the interlocking means are pads of artificial burr material.

6. A holder according to claim 3, wherein a plurality of longitudinally split, clamping tubes are secured in juxtaposition on the upper surface of the tape.

7. A holder according to claim 5, wherein at least one of the plurality is provided with latching means.

8. A holder according to claim 3, wherein the clamping tube is internally configurated in general conformity with the external diameter of the hub of an intravenous injection cannula and of attached infusion tubing.