Syringe for one sole use

• US 4,950,243 A
• Filed: 11/28/1988
• Issued: 08/21/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Miracle C. Estruch
• Original Assignee: Miracle C. Estruch
• Inventors: Estruch, Miracle C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yasko, John D.
• Application Number:
  US07/276,591
• Time in Patent Office: 631 Days
• Field of Search: 604/110, 604/218, 604/228, 604/111, 604/187
• US Class Current: 604/110
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/5066 Means for preventing re-use by disconnection of piston and piston-rod

Abstract

The object of the present invention is a syringe the essential function of which is to avoid that it is used again after having been used once. This is achieved by means of a piston joined to a pusher which inside the cylinder of the syringe does not reach the end, as there has to be provided a second pusher situated preferably in the centerof same which separates the piston of the pusher resting the piston at the interior end of the syringe, and the pusher free. In order to avoid that the end joined to the needle be manipulated, there can be provided a fixed needle, or either a channel between the cylinder and the corkscrew needle, impossible to be manipulated.

Claims

1. A single use hypodermic syringe, comprising,

a cylinder having a tip which includes a fluid outlet opening,

a piston which is movable in the cylinder to expel liquid through the fluid outlet opening,

a pusher for pushing the piston forwardly toward the fluid outlet opening, said pusher having a first part that is shorter than the piston and is detachably connected to the piston, said pusher having a second part that is long enough to move the piston to the end of the cylinder, and

means for detachably connecting said pusher to the piston so that said piston will not move when the pusher moves rearwardly.

2. A syringe according to claim 1 wherein the pusher is connected to the piston by cohererence, said pusher being detachable from the piston in response to a slight separation force.

3. A syring according to claim 1 having means for limiting the movement of the first part of the pusher so that the piston must separate from the first part of the pusher before the piston is able to reach the end of the cylinder.

4. A syringe according to claim 1 wherein the cylinder has means for preventing the piston from moving away from the end of the cylinder.

5. A syringe according to claim 4 wherein the means for preventing the piston from moving is an enlarged upper end within the cylinder.

6. A syringe according to claim 4 wherein the means for preventing the piston from moving is a sawtooth device.

7. A syringe according to claim 4 wherein the means for preventing the piston from moving includes a bulbous chamber in the cylinder which is engaged by a bulbous section on the piston.

8. A syringe according to claim 1 wherein the piston and cylinder have oval cross sections, said pusher being threaded to the piston and being too short to move the piston a substantial distance forwardly, and a longer pusher which is substitutable for the threaded pusher, said longer pusher being unconnected to the piston.