Container for holding sterile goods and sterile goods dispenser

• US 7,347,342 B2
• Filed: 10/29/2004
• Issued: 03/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Elmar Grandy
• Original Assignee: Elmar Grandy
• Inventors: Grandy, Elmar
• Primary Examiner(s): Crawford; Gene O.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kumar; Rakesh
• Application Number:
  US10/977,898
• Publication Number:
  US 20050115980A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,243 Days
• Field of Search: 221/88, 221/263, 221/270, 221/281, 221/155, 221/185, 221/233, 221/234, 221/236, 221/271, 221/302, 221/79, 221/117, 604/241, 604/239, 604/61, 604/62, 206/365, 206/380, 206/382, 206/383, 606/189, 606/183, 607/116, 607/115
• US Class Current: 221/263
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 39/08 Devices for applying needles to such points, i.e. for acupuncture ; Acupuncture needles or accessories therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/008 Racks for supporting syringes or needles A61M5/001 takes precedence

Abstract

A container (100) for holding sterile goods (10) is described, including a container body (20) with at least one continuous receiving channel (21) having a cover (30) at least at one end, wherein a pushing ram is displaceably arranged in the receiving channel (21), whose ram length is shorter than the channel length of the receiving channel (21) so that a cavity (23) is formed in the receiving channel (21) to receive the sterile goods (10), which is closed towards the outside by the cover (30). A dispenser for sterile goods is also described which has an actuating device and the container (100).

Claims

1. A container for holding a sterile good, comprising:

a container body with at least one continuous receiving channel having a cover at least at one end,

at least one acupuncture needle with a needle handle and a needle section, wherein the at least one acupuncture needle is arranged in the at least one receiving channel; and

at least one pushing ram which is displaceably arranged in at least one receiving channel, wherein a length of the at least one pushing ram is shorter than the channel length of the at least one receiving channel so that a cavity is formed in the receiving channel and the needle handle is arranged in the cavity wherein the pushing ram is shaped as a sleeve with an inner hole which receives the needle section, and the cavity is closed towards the outside by the cover.

2. The container according to claim 1, wherein said at least one pushing ram is shaped as a sleeve with an inner hole.

3. The container according to claim 1, wherein said at least one pushing ram comprises an external diameter that is equal to an internal diameter of said at least one receiving channel.

4. The container according to claim 1, wherein said at least one receiving channel has respectively one cover at both ends.

5. The container according to claim 1, wherein the cover is formed as a layer made of a material which is manually destructible by the sterile good.

6. The container according to claim 5, wherein the cover consists of sterile paper or film.

7. The container according to claim 2, wherein the diameter of the inner hole is less than the external diameter of the needle handle.

8. The container according to claim 1, which is equipped with an actuating part to displace said at least one pushing ram in the receiving channel.

9. The container according to claim 8, wherein the actuating part has an actuating pin, whose diameter is less than or equal to the channel internal diameter of the receiving channel.

10. The container according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of receiving channels are formed in the container body for accommodating a plurality of sterile goods.

11. The container according to claim 10, wherein the receiving channels run parallel from a front side to a back side of the container body.

12. The container according to claim 11, wherein the container body has the form of a circular cylinder between the front and back sides.

13. The container according to claim 12, wherein the receiving channels are arranged in the container body so that their points of intersection with a cross-sectional area of the container body form two or more coaxial circles.

14. The container according to claim 13, wherein the receiving channels in the container body are arranged in radial alignment.

15. The container according to claim 11, wherein the container body has the shape of a cuboid between the front and back sides.

16. The container according to claim 10, wherein on the front and back sides the cover for all the receiving channels is formed jointly respectively from one layer-shaped material.

17. A dispenser for sterile goods which has an actuating device and a container according to claim 1.

18. A method for supplying sterile good with a dispenser according to claim 17, wherein respectively one part of the sterile good is pushed out of the container, by moving the pushing ram using the actuating device in the corresponding receiving channel, until that part of the sterile good breaks through the cover and projects from the container body for subsequent usage.

19. The method according to claim 18, wherein respectively one acupuncture needle with a needle handle and a needle section is pushed out of the container respectively as sterile good until the needle handle breaks through the cover and projects from the container body.