Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Deseret Medical, Inc.

Reese H Barker

Victor L Bartholomew

Jack W Crowther

Disclosed is an apparatus and method of orienting a cylinder with an oblique end such that the slant of same faces a preferred direction. To this end, a special fixture is used which includes a central axial bore having a cylindrical surface which engages in bearing-like fashion with the oblique-ended cylinder. On opposite sides of the bore, are a magnet for imposing a magnetic field across the bore and across therefrom a dowel pin stop. The magnetic field acts to rotate the oblique-ended cylinder about the common axis of the bore and cylinder into a generally preferred position wherefrom the oblique-ended cylinder can come to its final resting position against the dowel pin stop. The method for using this fixture requires the alignment of the axis of the fixture and the cylinder, the moving of the two together engaging their cylindrical bearing parts to permit controlled rotary motion under the influence of magnetism and the abutting against a stop which sets the slanted portion of the oblique ended cylinder in a precise position.

Orienting device and method

A probe with a shoulder is used to support a pre-flanged distal end of a catheter placed inside of an adapter. The probe has a minor diameter to engage coaxially the bore of the catheter and a major diameter to carry coaxially the adapter in axial alignment with the catheter. The pre-flanged distal end of the catheter is compressed by the shoulder into the adapter during a dielectric welding operation as the probe is urged axially against the flange of the catheter. A support associated with the probe resists axial movement of the adapter and receives dielectric energy from the probe.

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Ogden, UT, United States of America

Reese H Barker