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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 05, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2016
Infinivation Biomedical Llc, Moravia, NY (US);
Thomas J. Pennell, Moravia, NY (US);
Infinivation Biomedical LLC, Moravia, NY (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for draining. The apparatus includes a body, the body having a first compartment adjacent to a second compartment, the first compartment having an inlet port fluidly connected to an outlet port, the inlet port defining a needle seat within the first compartment, a first rod hole for operation with a second rod hole in the second compartment, and a plurality of venting holes, the second compartment having a plurality of spaced notches along. The apparatus further includes a setting rod, the setting rod having a shaft and a sealing head, the shaft sized to be slideably maintained in the first rod hole and the second rod hole, the sealing head slideably attached to an end of the shaft and sized to obstruct fluid flow from the inlet port at the needle seat.