Tube type supply container for medical syringe

• US 4,232,670 A
• Filed: 05/24/1979
• Issued: 11/11/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company (ConocoPhillips)
• Original Assignee: Howmedica International Incorporated Zweigniederlassung
• Inventors: Harder, Hans E., Behrens, Klaus, Richter, Karl M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yasko, John D.
• Application Number:
  US06/042,035
• Time in Patent Office: 537 Days
• Field of Search: 128/224, 128/234, 128/218 R, 128/218 P, 128/218 PA, 128/215, 128/216, 128/260, 128/261, 128/235
• US Class Current: 604/218
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/8802 Equipment for handling bone cement or other fluid fillers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/8816 characterised by the conduit, e.g. tube, along which fluid flows into the body or by conduit connections
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 17/8825 characterised by syringe details A61B17/8822, A61B17/8827 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/00 Medical syringes, e.g. enemata; Irrigators A61M5/00 takes precedence; pistons A61M5/315

Abstract

A tubular supply container for use in a medical syringe to dispense bone cement has a pipe formed tube with a slidable plunger. A smaller diameter injection pipe is removably secured to the forward end of the pipe formed tube. A funnel may also be applied to the forward end of the tube to assist in filling the container or may be placed on the rear end to serve as a stand.

Claims

1. A tube-type supply container for viscous media, in particular bone cement, that is adapted to be inserted in an appliance provided with a manually actuable push rod, said supply container comprising:

a cylindrical tube, both ends of said tube being open, one of said ends having first thread means adjacent thereto;

injection pipe means including a relatively elongated pipe portion of relatively small diameter and a conically flared portion, said pipe portion being formed of a shearable, elastic material, said conically flared portion having second thread means by which the conically flared portion can be connected to one of the ends of said cylindrical tube by coaction with said first thread means;

a plug-like piston that is sealingly displaceable within said cylindrical tube and adapted to be actuated by said push rod; and

a funnel member having a cylindrical portion adapted to be slid on the outer side of either end of said cylindrical tube and having an abutment in its interior cooperating with either end face of said cylindrical tube.

2. A tube-type supply container set forth in claim 1, wherein said conically flared portion includes a tube-like extension adapted to be introduced into said elastic pipe portion and secured by a clamp.

3. The container according to claim 1 characterized in that a thread means (21) is formed on the outside of the tube (20) and on the inside of the cylindrical section (13) of the conically flared portion (12).

4. The container according to claim 1 characterized in that the abutment is formed of a ring-like band (43) in front of the transition to a conical part (42).

5. The container according to claim 1 characterized in that the plunger (30) has a forward cylindrical section (35) and a rearward formed section with ring-like circular flexible ribs (36), wherein the diameter of the cylindrical section (35) corresponds to the inner diameter of the tube (20) and the diameter of the ribs is somewhat greater than the diameter of the tube.

6. The container according to claim 5 characterized in that the ribs (36) have sawtoothed surfaces in cross-section, whereby when seen in the pushing direction, the forward surfaces (37) incorporate a smaller angle to the longitudinal axis than the rearward surfaces (38) and the apex of the ribs (36) is formed as a ring surface (39) parallel to the cylindrical section (35).