Insulin injection guide

• US 4,228,796 A
• Filed: 03/19/1979
• Issued: 10/21/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Marie A. Gardiner
• Original Assignee: Marie A. Gardiner
• Inventors: Gardiner, Marie A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yasko, John D.
• Application Number:
  US06/022,086
• Time in Patent Office: 582 Days
• Field of Search: 128/215, 128/213 R, 128/218 R, 128/92 EB
• US Class Current: 604/116
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/427 Locating point where body is to be pierced, e.g. vein location means using ultrasonic waves, injection site templates

Abstract

A flexible sheet-like material has fifteen holes therethrough which are consecutively numbered one to fifteen on one side thereof and sixteen to thirty on the other. A pair of straps including Velcro attachments are adapted to support the guide on the right thigh with the numbers one to fifteen exposed or on the left thigh exposing the numbers sixteen to thirty. The user can then inject himself through the hole having the same number as the day of the month. In a modified form of the invention, there are seven holes which are identified by the days of the week on each side thereof. When using this embodiment, the user injects himself through the hole corresponding to the proper day of the week. Several pockets formed in the sheet material may be used for storing the syringe and a supply of insulin.

Claims

1. An injection guide comprising:

a substantially flexible sheet-like material of predetermined shape, said material having a plurality of holes passing therethrough;

means attached to said material for securing the same to a person'"'"'s thigh; and

means associated with each of said holes for identifying each hole and for distinguishing each hole from each of the other holes, said means associated with each of said holes being indicia means identifying the days of the week.

2. An injection guide as claimed in claim 1 wherein said plurality of holes comprises seven holes.

3. An injection guide as claimed in claim 1 wherein said securing means are straps.

4. An injection guide comprising:

a substantially flexible sheet-like material of predetermined shape, said material having a plurality of holes passing therethrough;

means attached to said material for securing the same to a person'"'"'s thigh; and

means associated with each of said holes for identifying each hole and for distinguishing each hole from each of the other holes, said means associated with each of said holes being indicia means in the form of numbers identifying the days of the month.

5. An injection guide as claimed in claim 4 wherein said securing means are straps.

6. An injection guide as claimed in claim 4 wherein said sheet-like material has first and second surfaces and wherein said securing means is adapted to selectively secure the guide to a person'"'"'s thigh with either of said surfaces exposed.

7. An injection guide as claimed in claim 6 wherein there are fifteen holes, said holes being identified by the numbers one to fifteen, respectively, on said first surface and sixteen to thirty, respectively, on said second surface.

8. An injection guide comprising:

a substantially flexible sheet-like material of predetermined shape, said material having a plurality of holes passing therethrough;

means attached to said material for securing the same to a person'"'"'s thigh;

means associated with each of said holes for identifying each hole and for distinguishing each hole from each of the other holes, and

at least one pocket formed in said material for holding injection supplies.

9. An injection guide as claimed in claim 8 wherein said securing means are straps.