Emergency syringe

• US 4,314,556 A
• Filed: 04/21/1980
• Issued: 02/09/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Austin C. Ma
• Original Assignee: Austin C. Ma
• Inventors: Ma, Austin C.
• Primary Examiner(s): YASKO JR, JOHN D
• Application Number:
  US06/141,877
• Time in Patent Office: 659 Days
• Field of Search: 128/218 R, 128/218 D, 128/218 DA, 128/218 M, 128/234, 128/272.1, 128/272.3, 128/215, 128/216
• US Class Current: 604/187
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2005/3128 Incorporating one-way valves, e.g. pressure-relief or non-return valves
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/24 Ampoule syringes, i.e. syringes with needle for use in combination with replaceable ampoules or carpules, e.g. automatic ampoules or carpules A61J1/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3129 Syringe barrels A61M5/3205 and A61M5/50 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/3137 Specially designed finger grip means, e.g. for easy manipulation of the syringe rod

Abstract

A hypodermic syringe of the type having a containment chamber for a long term storage of a liquid drug contained therein. The chamber is preferably of a tubular glass construction which includes at one end a truncated conical forward portion having an exit path which is normally blocked by a rubber stopper while the liquid drug is in storage. The stopper lies inside the chamber and is held in fixed displaced relation to the needle of the syringe on an extension support comprising part of a nose piece of generally cylindrical shape that overlies the conical portion of the chamber in concentric slideable engagement therewith. A rear piece in concentric fixed engagement with the rear portion of the chamber retains a plunger at that end of the chamber whereby the liquid drug contained therein may be dispensed from the chamber after the fluid path is opened. The nose piece and the rear piece terminate at about the mid-section of the container in annular flanges displaced parallel to each other whereby compressive force applied to such flanges results in movement of the nose piece toward the rear of the syringe disengaging the stopper from the conical portion of the glass tube container thus opening a fluid path for dispensing the drug through the needle of the syringe. In a preferred embodiment overlapping snaps are provided to lock the two flanges in parallel engagement after the nose piece is pulled rearwardly to open the fluid path.

Claims

1. In a hypodermic syringe of the type having a containment chamber for long term sealed storage of a liquid therein and having means for dispensing the stored liquid through a channeled needle after the containment chamber is unsealed, the combination comprising:

a constricted opening in said chamber forming a fluid path therein, said fluid path being in substantial proximity to said dispensing means,

a stopper inside said chamber in blocking engagement with said fluid path,

means for pushing said stopper further into said chamber without increasing the pressure in said chamber and for holding said stopper in fixed displacement from said fluid path thereby unsealing said chamber, and

means for forcing said liquid through said fluid path and in to said dispensing means.

2. The combination defined in claim 1 wherein which said containment chamber comprises a tubular glass burette and wherein said constriction comprises a truncated conical forward portion of said burette.

3. The combination defined in claim 2 wherein said pushing means comprises a nose piece of substantially cylindrical cross-section overlying said constriction of said burette in relative slidable engagement therewith and having a centrally located extention support for holding said stopper whereby rearward movement of said nose piece relative to said burette unseals said chamber.

4. The combination recited in claim 3 further comprising a rear piece of substantially cylindrical cross-section overlying the rearward portion of said burette in substantially fixed concentric engagement therewith.

5. The combination recited in claim 4 further comprising annular flanges at least one of which is located on said nose piece and at least one of which is located in opposing parallel ralation thereto on said rear piece whereby the application of a compressive force between said flanges results in motion of said nose piece towards said rear piece thereby unsealing said chamber.

6. The combination recited in claim 5 further comprising means for retaining said flanges in fixed parallel displacement relative to one another when said chamber is sealed and means for retaining said flanges in fixed parallel displacement when said chamber is unsealed.

7. The combination recited in claim 4 further comprising means on said rear piece folded into a nonconstricted second opening in said chamber for retaining said forcing means in said chamber.

8. An emergency hypodermic syringe comprising:

a substantially tubular burette having openings at the respective longitudinal ends thereof, one such opening being substantially smaller in diameter than the nominal diameter of the burette, said smaller opening being formed at the terminus of a truncated substantially conical portion of said burette,

a stopper of substantially elastic material positioned within said burette in substantial proximity to said conical portion and of substantially conical cross-section of sufficient dimension to block said smaller opening when in compressive concentric engagement with said conical portion,

a channeled needle for injecting said syringe and for dispensing a liquid therethrough,

a nose piece of substantially cylindrical cross-section overlying said conical portion of said burette in relative slideable engagement therewith and having means for holding said stopper and said needle in fixed relative displacement whereby motion of said noise piece towards said burette disengages said stopper from said conical portion, and

a plunger enclosing the other opening of said burette for forcing said liquid out of said burette after said stopper is disengaged from said conical portion.

9. An emergency hypodermic syringe as defined in claim 8 further comprising:

a rear piece of substantially cylindrical cross-section overlying the rear-most portion of said burette in concentric fixed engagement therewith.

10. An emergency hypodermic syringe as defined in claim 9 further comprising at least one flange on each of said nose piece and rear piece, said flanges being in displaced parallel position relative to one another whereby a compressive force applied therebetween results in motion of said nose piece towards said burette for disengaging said stopper from said conical portion.

11. An emergency hypodermic syringe as defined in claim 10 further comprising means for securing said flanges in fixed relative displacement to each other after said stopper is disengaged from said conical portion.