Portable endermic injector

• US 4,850,967 A
• Filed: 06/15/1987
• Issued: 07/25/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sicim SPA (Landi Renzo S.p.A.)
• Original Assignee: Sicim SPA (Landi Renzo S.p.A.)
• Inventors: Cosmai, Pietro
• Primary Examiner(s): Pellegrino, Stephen C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lewis, Ralph
• Application Number:
  US07/062,807
• Time in Patent Office: 771 Days
• Field of Search: 604/68, 604/134-136, 604/71, 604/72
• US Class Current: 604/68
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/30 Syringes for injection by jet action, without needle, e.g. for use with replaceable ampoules or carpules

Abstract

Portable endermic injector of a mechanical type which comprises an aspiration and containment chamber, an assembly (12) to aspirate and to store, a cocking and trigger assembly (13) and an assembly (14) to read the quantity aspirated. A containment assembly (11) comprises the aspiration and containment chamber and a piston (19) and is screwed onto a frontal container (15). The assembly (12) to aspirate and to store energy comprises apparatus to regulate the pre-loading of a spring assembly (28) which includes spacer rings (226) and apparatus (15-23) having variable axial reciprocal positions. The reader assembly (14) comprises a threaded portion (46) and a slider (47) cooperating with a graduated area (50).

Claims

1. Portable endermic injector of a mechanical type, comprising:

a frontal container (15);

a containment assembly (11) fitted in said frontal container;

a containment and guide sleeve (23) which extends rearward from the frontal container (15);

an aspiration and storage means (12) including an abutment ring (26) axially reciprocable in said containment and guide sleeve (23), means (27) preventing rotation of said ring in said containment and guide sleeve (23), an actuation shaft (29) fixed to said ring (26) for axial reciprocation therewith in said containment and guide sleeve (23), and a spring assembly (28) cooperable with said actuation shaft (29) for urging same axially toward said containment assembly (11);

cocking and trigger means (13) actuable to momentarily anchor to said actuation shaft (29);

means (14) associated with at least one of said frontal container (15) and containment and guide sleeve (23) for reading the quantity aspirated;

in which;

said containment assembly (11) includes an injection head (16) facing forward from said frontal container (15), an aspiration and containment chamber in said injection head (16) for holding liquid to be injected, and a piston (19) slidable in said aspiration and containment chamber and connected to said actuation shaft (29);

said aspiration and energy storage means (12) comprises means for regulating the preloading of said spring assembly (28) and comprising a

(A) spacer ring (226) insertable between said spring assembly (28) and said abutment ring (26), and

(B) means axially adjustably interconnecting said frontal container (15) and said containment and guide sleeve (23);

said reading means (14) comprises a threaded track (46) on a reader sleeve (24) disposed outside of said containment and guide sleeve (23), graduation marks (50) and means locating same on a surface disposed radially outboard of one of said frontal container (15) and containment and guide sleeve (23), and slider means (47,

     247) threadedly adjustable on said threaded track (46) and cooperable with said graduation marks (50) for indicating the quantity of a medicament injected by said injector.

2. Injector as claimed in claim 1, in which the injection head (16) is screwed onto the frontal container (15) and on which is screwed a rear containment cap (18) that intercepts the piston (19) axially.

3. Injector as claimed in claim 2, in which a packing is fixed with respect to the rear containment cap (18) and injection head (16) and slidably receives the piston (19).

4. Injector as claimed in claim 2, in which the injection head (16) comprises, at its front, a nose protruding forward from said frontal container (15) and anchorage rods (17) extending radially out from said nose.

5. Injector as claimed in claim 1, in which a plurality of spacer rings (226) are placed between the spring assembly (28) and the abutment ring (26).

6. Injector as claimed in claim 1, including a perforated cap (30) surrounding said actuation shaft (29) and surrounded by said sleeve (23) at the end thereof remote from said abutment ring (26).

7. Injector as claimed in claim 1, in which the means axially adjustably interconnecting the frontal container (15) and the containment and guide sleeve (23) is a threaded connection, and including a reciprocal fixture dowel (22) insertable in said threaded connection to lock said container (15) and sleeve (23) is a desired relative axial position.

8. Injector as claimed in claim 1, in which the means axially adjustably interconnecting the frontal container (15) and the containment and guide sleeve (23) includes a resiliently thrust, reciprocal fixture push button (52).

9. Injector as claimed in claim 1, in which the means axially adjustably interconnecting the frontal container (15) and the containment and guide sleeve (23) comprises a threaded connection which is axially adjustable.

10. Injector as claimed in claim 1, in which the slider (47) slides on lengthwise guides (49) included in a hand grip (32) located on the end of said sleeve (23) remote from said frontal container (15).

11. Injector as claimed in claim 1, in which the slider means (47) comprises a tooth (48) that cooperates with the threaded track (46).

12. Injector as claimed in claim 11, in which the slider means comprises an annular slider (247) which is resiliently and axially thrust by a spring (68) towards a hand grip (32) and is positioned between the reader sleeve (24) and the containment sleeve (23).

13. Injector as claimed in claim 12, in which the reader sleeve (24) with the reader assembly (14) comprises a reader catch (56) with an engagement tooth (57) able to cooperate with the threaded track (46).

14. Injector as claimed in claim 13, in which the reader catch (56) is pressed resiliently against the annular slider (247).

15. Injector as claimed in claim 13, in which the pitch of the threaded track (46) is coordinated with the pitch of a second threaded track (146) on the actuation shaft (29).

16. Injector as claimed in claim 1, in which the graduation marks (50) cooperable with the slider (47-247) are proportioned directly to the volume of the aspiration and containment chamber in the containment assembly (11).

17. Injector as claimed in claim 1, in which the cocking and trigger means (13) includes an annular lever (41) which engages a two-positional trigger (62), both of which are disposed adjacent the end of the sleeve (23) remote from the frontal container (15), and means operatively connecting said annular lever (41) with the end of said actuation shaft (29) remote from said frontal container (15) for freeing the actuation shaft (29) to be shifted forward toward said containment assembly (11) by said spring assembly (28).

18. Injector as claimed in claim 1, including the trigger (62) comprises an annular groove (64) that cooperates with the annular lever (41) and with a safety arm (66), the trigger (62) being rotatable about its own axis.

19. Injector as claimed in claim 1 in which the cocking and trigger means (13) includes an actuator (40) adjacent the rear end of the actuator shaft (29) and means responsive to forward shifting of said actuator (40) for freeing the actuator shaft (29) to be shifted forward toward said containment assembly (11) by said spring assembly (28), an axially shiftable trigger (162) adjacent the rear end of said shaft and said actuator, and radial levers (71) interposed between said trigger (162) and actuator (40) for causing said forward shifting of said actuator (40) in response to axial shifting of said trigger (162), said trigger (162) also being rotatable on the axis of said shaft (29).

20. Injector as claimed in claim 19, in which the trigger (162) has an active position and a safe position, the active position being determined by the cooperation of an indentation (70) in the trigger (162) and a pin (174), and means supporting the pin (74) with respect to and to the rear of said reader sleeve (24).