Sterling Winthrop Inc.

Abbott Laboratories Corporation

Baxter International Inc.

Eastman-kodak Company

Sterling Drug Inc.

Sanofi Winthrop Inc.

Mark A Stiehl

William A Bergstresser

Thomas Edward Dudar

John J Niedospial, Jr

Kurt Attermeier

Joseph M Tartaglia

Eugene Sisto

Jude A SanGregory

Ronald R Vacek

John J Niedospial

Raymond P Chapman

Berle A Dale

William Andrew Bergstresser

George E Diaz

Richard J Felts

Douglas W Pfaff

A single-use camera includes an external housing (290, 292), within the housing a camera frame (100) having an exposure opening (102), a first chamber (104) on one side of the exposure opening for receiving a light-tight film cartridge (18) enclosing a filmstrip (36); and a second chamber (108) on an opposite side of the exposure opening for receiving a scroll (268) formed from a filmstrip, and a separate retainer cap (80; 210-216; 220-234) located in the second chamber for engaging an end of the scroll to prevent clock-springing of the scroll.

Single-use camera with retainer cap for scroll of unexposed film

A coupling system for transferring fluids from a medicament-containing cartridge to an injection site comprises a fluid flow channel, a blunt cannula defining the distal end of the fluid flow channel, a needle cannula defining the proximal end of the fluid flow channel, and means for fixedly connecting the needle cannula to the blunt cannula.

Safety cannula

An article of manufacture adapted to be connected to a male thread comprises an exterior surface, a cavity opening away from the exterior surface and defining an interior surface, and a plurality of ribs disposed on the interior surface extending longitudinally away from the exterior surface. The article can be connected to the male thread by threading the cavity onto the male thread. It is a particular advantage that the article of this invention, unlike prior art female threaded articles, can be prepared by conventional simple injection molding techniques not requiring an unscrewing step. In one preferred embodiment, the article is a plunger rod intended to be connected to the male threaded post of a plunger of an associated cartridge-needle unit to form a syringe assembly.

Self-tapping plunger rod for cartridge needle unit

This invention relates to a holder for use in combination with a pre-filled cartridge-needle unit, the holder comprising a hollow body sized for housing the cartridge-needle unit therein, and provision for allowing the body to move axially relative to the cartridge-needle unit. In one preferred embodiment, the distal end of the body is elliptical in cross section and the proximal end of the body is circular in cross section. In another preferred embodiment, the body comprises a pair of cam slots at the distal end and a pair or retaining slots at the proximal end, the slots being sized to accept a circumferential ring on the cartridge-needle unit and positioned to hold the cartridge-needle units in use and safe positions. The holder is easier to use and manufacture and reduces the susceptibility of health care workers to accidental needle strikes.

Holder for cartridge-needle unit

This invention relates to a holder for use in combination with a pre-filled cartridge-needle unit, the holder comprising a hollow body sized for housing the cartridge-needle unit therein, and means for permitting the body to move axially relative to the cartridge-needle unit. In one preferred embodiment, the distal end of the body is elliptical in cross section and the proximal end of the body is circular in cross section. In another preferred embodiment, the body comprises a pair of cam slots at the distal end and a pair or retaining slots at the proximal end, the slots being sized to accept a circumferential ring on the cartridge-needle unit and positioned to hold the cartridge-needle units in use and safe positions. The holder is easier to use and manufacture and reduces the susceptibility of health care workers to accidental needle strikes.

A hypodermic syringe holder adapted to receive a disposable ampoule and eject it in an axial direction. The holder comprises a plunger element, a holding element and a disposable hollow cylindrical frame portion.

Hypodermic syringe holder with disposable body

Combined pre-filled cartridge-needle unit and holder

This invention relates to a collar adapted for use in combination with activatable prefilled cartridge-need units and disposable holders. The collar is adapted to fit over the hub of the cartridge-needle unit and comprises a solid circumferential neck; a circumferential foot interrupted in at least one point having inside and outside arcuate surfaces, the outside surface having thereon a circumferentially outwardly extending ring and the inside surface having thereon at least one radially inwardly extending shelf; and at least one leg connecting the neck to the foot. The collar provides improved safety reliability and thus reduces the susceptibility of health care workers to accidents, e.g., accidental needle strikes. In addition, the collar can be easily and economically manufactured, e.g., by conventional precision injection molding techniques.

Collar and cartridge-needle unit assembly

A readily assembleable, snap together hypodermic syringe holder for use in combination with disposable medicament-containing ampoules is adapted to immobilize an ampoule within the syringe holder and provide manual aspirating capability.

Snap together hypodermic syringe holder

A hypodermic syringe holder adapted to receive a disposable carpule and eject it in an axial direction includes a pair of pivotable jaws disposed on pivots on opposite sides of the body of the holder and a sleeve element for opening and closing the jaws slidably disposed around the body of the holder. In the downward position, the sleeve element closes the jaws around the carpule and in the upward position, the sleeve opens the jaws, permitting the carpule to be safely and consistently ejected form the holder in an axial direction.

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Mark A Stiehl