Device for firmly locking a syringe on a body which may be coupled thereto

• US 4,785,858 A
• Filed: 07/20/1987
• Issued: 11/22/1988
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Farmindustria SA (Abbott Laboratories Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Farmindustria SA (Abbott Laboratories Incorporated)
• Inventors: Valentini, Luigi, Coccia, Mario
• Primary Examiner(s): Recla, Henry J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cusick, Ernest G.
• Application Number:
  US07/075,683
• Time in Patent Office: 491 Days
• Field of Search: 141/24-28, 141/311, 141/312, 141/319, 141/329, 141/330, 141/346, 141/368, 141/369, 141/370, 141/371, 141/372, 141/375, 141/382, 141/383, 141/384, 141/385, 141/386, 285/97, 285/82, 285/87, 604/403, 604/411, 604/414, 604/415, 604/905, 604/240, 604/242, 604/201
• US Class Current: 141/27
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/201 having one piercing end
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2055 having gripping means
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/2096 Combination of a vial and a syringe for transferring or mixing their contents
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 604/905 Aseptic connectors or couplings, e.g. frangible, piercable

Abstract

A body is provided with members for coupling it to one end of a bottle or the like. The body has a seat for housing the free end of a syringe, with a hole for allowing for the syringe needle to pass through. The free end of a syringe may be housed and threaded in the seat. On the side opposite surfaces of the body seat and at the syringe end provided for insertion in the seat, there are formed radially projecting longitudinal teeth and slanted resilient fins which are deflected by the teeth as the syringe is threaded to the body. The teeth abut against the fins, thereby preventing the syringe from being screwed off the body.

Claims

1. A device for transferring liquids, said device comprising:

(a) a syringe having a working end, the working end of said syringe having a radially inwardly facing surface and a radially outwardly facing surface;

(b) a syringe needle projecting from the working end of said syringe;

(c) a body having a seat sized, shaped, and positioned to receive the working end of said syringe;

(d) said seat having a radially inwardly facing surface, a radially outwardly facing surface, and a hole sized, shaped, and positioned to allow said syringe needle to pass therethrough;

(e) one of said radially inwardly facing surface and said radially outwardly facing surface of the working end of said syringe and said radially inwardly facing surface and said radially outwardly facing surface of said seat having threads for coupling said syringe to said body; and

(f) the working end of said syringe and one of said radially inwardly facing surface and said radially outwardly facing surface of said seat having;

(i) complementary and cooperating teeth and

(ii) slanted and resilient fins that permit the threading of the working end of said syringe into said seat but that permit the unthreading of the working end of said syringe from said seat.

2. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein:

(a) said threads on said syringe are internal threads formed on the working end of said syringe; and

(b) said threads on said body are external threads formed on the radially outwardly facing surface of said seat.

3. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein:

(a) said teeth are formed on an external surface of said syringe and project outwardly from said syringe toward said seat; and

(b) said slanted and resilient fins are formed in said radially inwardly facing surface of said seat and project inwardly toward said syringe.

4. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein:

(a) said body comprises a lug;

(b) said lug projects away from said seat;

(c) said syringe needle projects through said lug; and

(d) a tube can be coupled on said lug.

5. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein:

(a) said body comprises a major part and a minor part in the form of a sleeve press fit into said major part and having a radially outwardly facing surface;

(b) a collar is formed on the radially outwardly facing surface of said minor part of said body;

(c) said threads for coupling said syringe to said body are located on said radially inwardly facing surface of the working end of said syringe; and

(d) said collar on the radially outwardly facing surface of said minor part of said body engages said threads on said radially inwardly facing surface of the working end of said syringe.

6. A device as recited in claim 1 wherein said syringe needle is part of said body.