Safety device for filling liquids in drug bottles and drawing said liquids therefrom

• US 4,909,290 A
• Filed: 09/19/1988
• Issued: 03/20/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 09/22/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Farmitalia Carlo Erba SRL (Pfizer Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Farmitalia Carlo Erba SRL (Pfizer Inc.)
• Inventors: Coccia, Mario
• Primary Examiner(s): CUSICK, ERNEST
• Application Number:
  US07/246,093
• Time in Patent Office: 547 Days
• Field of Search: 141/329, 141/330, 141/25-27, 141/383-386, 141/387-389, 604/407, 604/411-415, 604/905, 604/198, 604/201, 604/204
• US Class Current: 141/329
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/201 having one piercing end
• 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

The device includes a syringe and an apparatus for coupling the syringe to a drug holding bottle and the like, the apparatus defining an enclosed chamber wherein there is housed a needle to be coupled to the syringe and the free end of which is arranged is front of a tightness resilient member located at a seat adapted to receive the mouth of the bottle, the syringe being firmly and fixedly clamped, in a tight way, in a syringe seat formed in the apparatus.

Claims

1. A safety device adapted to be connected to an opening of a bottle comprising:

a syringe comprising a movable needle, said needle having a tip at its lower end, said syringe further comprising a tubular wall projecting from the syringe and surrounding an upper end of said needle, wherein projections are formed on an exterior surface of said tubular wall; and

an apparatus defining an enclosed chamber for housing said movable needle, said tip of said movable needle being positionable to a position beyond said chamber when said device is connected to said bottle, said apparatus further defining a cylindrical wall projecting from said chamber and comprising recesses formed at its upper end, said tubular wall being forcefitted into said cylindrical wall into a position in which said projections are force-fitted into said recesses;

wherein said syringe is non-removably coupled to said apparatus.

2. A safety device according to claim 1, wherein said apparatus comprises:

an inner body, a middle body and an outer body, said cylindrical wall defining said inner body, said inner body being non-removably coupled to said syringe, said inner body being housed within said middle body and said middle body being housed within said outer body, said inner body, middle body and outer body being coupled to one another with said inner body being axially displacable with respect to said middle body and said outer body;

wherein said inner body is movable with respect to said middle body and said outer body from a position in which said movable needle is housed within said chamber to said position in which said tip of said needle is disposed beyond said chamber.

3. A safety device according to claim 1, wherein a free edge of said cylindrical wall forms a rim at its upper end, said rim being adapted to restrain at least one of said projections.