Method and apparatus for self injecting medicine

• US 5,873,859 A
• Filed: 04/24/1997
• Issued: 02/23/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Robert L. Muntz
• Original Assignee: Robert L. Muntz
• Inventors: Muntz, Robert L.
• Primary Examiner(s): YASKO JR, JOHN D
• Application Number:
  US08/839,957
• Time in Patent Office: 670 Days
• Field of Search: 604/207, 604/208, 604/187, 604/414, 604/411, 604/407, 141/27
• US Class Current: 604/207
• 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: A61M 5/1782 Devices aiding filling of syringes in situ combination of a vial and a syringe for transferring or mixing their contents A61J1/2096, filling of medical containers in general B65B3/003

Abstract

A new Method and Apparatus for Self Injecting Medicine for offering a device designed to assist individuals who must give self injections. The inventive device includes a support base, a track, a sub-base, syringe plunger retainer, syringe nose retainer and a medicine vial support. In use, a syringe is inserted and retainably, removably attached with the handle between the first wall and the second wall and the plunger therefore protrudingly extending out a first end of the device and wherein a nose of the syringe is retainably and removably held within a syringe nose retainer by biasedly opposing spring fingers wherein arcuate bottle mating surface engages a periphery of a medicine vial and therefore supports and retains the medicine vial from movement to and aft and rotationally and wherein adjustment of the medicine vial can be accomplished linearly within the sliding track and the medicine vial can therefore be slid to allow a needle of the syringe to protrudingly extend into the medicine vial, therefore allowing removal of liquid medicine by the drawing back of a plunger of the syringe.

Claims

1. An apparatus for self injecting medicine comprising:

a support base, a track, a sub-base, a syringe plunger retainer, a syringe nose retainer, and a medicine vial support where the syringe plunger retainer is fixedly attached to the sub-base and the syringe nose retainer is also fixedly attached to the sub-base and wherein the sub-base is fixedly attached to the support base and wherein the medicine vial support is adjustably attached to the tracks which in turn are fixedly attached to the support base;

wherein the support base further comprises suction cups which are attachedly fixed to a bottom of the support base and where there is at least one suction cup or a plurality of suction cups; and

wherein the syringe plunger retainer is comprised of a first wall, a second wall, a handle aperture, an adhering surface, a syringe nose retainer, a syringe aperture, and a resilient spring material where the first wall, the second wall, and the syringe nose retainer are each fixedly attached orthogonally to an upper side of the sub-base and where the first wall and the second wall each include the handle aperture which in turn is an upward oriented concave arcuate notch and therefore defines the adhering surface which is made into resilient spring material and thereby, the first wall and the second wall further include the adhering surface in each.

2. The apparatus for self injecting medicine of claim 1, wherein the syringe nose retainer includes the syringe aperture which in turn is an upward oriented concave arcuate notch and therefore defines the adhering surface which is made into resilient spring material and thereby the syringe nose retainer further includes the adhering surface.

3. The apparatus for self injecting medicine of claim 2, wherein the handle aperture and the syringe aperture are axially inline and concavely coplanar and therefore the arcuate notches that they define are inline with each other and therefore the adhering surfaces are axially inline and concavely coplanar.

4. The apparatus for self injecting medicine of claim 3, wherein the medicine vial support is comprised of an arcuate bottle mating surface, a bottle aperture, and at least one spring finger where the spring finger is further defined as a pair of concavely shaped arcuate upwardly extending elongations which are orthogonally and integrally joined to a base which forms an upper half of the tracks.

5. The apparatus for self injecting medicine of claim 4, wherein the pair of concavely shaped arcuate upwardly extending elongations further include turned out tips for receiving a bottle diameter of a medicine vial.

6. The apparatus for self injecting medicine of claim 5, wherein an inner side of the pair of concavely shaped arcuate upwardly extending elongations is further defined as the arcuate bottle mating surface.

7. The apparatus for self injecting medicine of claim 6, wherein the pair of concavely shaped arcuate upwardly extending elongations further define two opposing spring biased members that are spaced apart to define a diameter and therefore the bottle aperture which is substantially of a size to mate with a plurality of bottle diameters.

8. An apparatus for filling a syringe of the type having a nose and a flange proximate a plunger, the apparatus comprising:

a base having a first slotted wall and a second slotted wall, said first and second walls extending upwardly from said base and being spaced apart to form a gap between the first and second walls, said gap being adapted to receive the flange of the syringe such that the syringe is prevented from moving horizontally when said gap receives the flange;

a syringe nose retainer extending upwardly from said base, said syringe nose retainer being adapted to receive the nose of the syringe;

a vial support adapted to hold a vial, said vial support being slidably coupled to said base such that said vial support can slide towards and away from the syringe nose retainer such that the syringe can penetrate the vial by sliding the vial towards the syringe.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising:

a number of suction cups positioned on a bottom surface of said base, said number of suction cups being adapted for securing said base to a surface.