Plug body for a container

• US 4,254,884 A
• Filed: 10/15/1979
• Issued: 03/10/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 10/20/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (TOPPAN Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. (TOPPAN Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Maruyama, Takashi
• Primary Examiner(s): Norton, Donald F.
• Application Number:
  US06/084,560
• Time in Patent Office: 512 Days
• Field of Search: 215/232, 215/247, 215/248, 215/249, 215/364, 150/8
• US Class Current: 215/232
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/1406 Septums, pierceable membranes
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 51/002 Closures to be pierced by an extracting-device for the contents and fixed on the container by separate retaining means

Abstract

A plug body for a plastic container for blood or the like wherein a rubber plug has upper and lower surfaces covered to be positioned by thermoplastic films, the surface of the thermoplastic film is partly exposed to serve as an inserting opening for an injection needle or the like, and an injection molded portion is surrounded with thermoplastic material of the same quality as the thermoplastic film.

Claims

1. A plug body for a plastic container receiving therein liquids such as blood, in which a rubber plug whose upper and lower surfaces are covered with thermoplastic films is positioned in the center of the plug body, and the rubber plug is outer peripherally provided with an injection molded portion with thermoplastic resin of the same quality as said plastic films said portion having inserting openings exposing the surfaces of said films.

2. The plug body according to claim 1 wherein the injection molded portion has a flange portion adapted to be fused on a lip portion of the container.

3. The plug body according to claim 1 wherein the injection molded portion includes an annular body adapted to be fitted internally of a lip portion of the container.

4. The plug body according to claim 1 wherein the injection molded portion includes a flange portion adapted to be fused on a lip portion of the container and an annular body adapted to be fitted internally of said lip portion of the container.

5. The plug body according to claim 4 including a recessed portion disposed in a boundary between the annular body and the flange portion.

6. The plug body accoding to claim 1 wherein at least one of said inserting openings is divided by a reinforcing portion.

7. The plug body according to claim 6 wherein the reinforcing portion comprises a plurality of radial reinforcing members.

8. A plug body for a container comprising a rubber plug having an upper surface, a lower surface, and an outer periphery therebetween, a thermoplastic film covering said upper and lower surfaces of said rubber plug, and an injection molded member in contact with said outer periphery of said rubber plug, said injection molded member comprising a thermoplastic resin, whereby at least a portion of said thermoplastic film covering said upper and lower surfaces of said rubber plug are exposed so as to provide inserting openings for said plug body.

9. The plug body of claim 8 wherein said container includes a lip portion, said injection molded member including a flange portion adapted to be fused on said lip portion of said container.

10. The plug body of claim 9 wherein said injection molded member includes a depending annular body adapted to be fitted internally of said lip portion of said container.

11. The plug body of claim 8 wherein said plug body includes a reinforcing portion covering a portion of at least one of said inserting openings.

12. The plug body of claim 11 wherein said reinforcing portion comprises a plurality of radial reinforcing members.

13. The plug body of claim 8 wherein said container includes an annular projecting portion, said plug body including an annular recessed portion for cooperation with said annular projecting portion of said container.

14. The plug body of claim 8 wherein said injection molded member covers said thermoplastic film covering upper surface of said rubber plug and includes a plurality of openings therein.