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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 1987
Filed:
Aug. 09, 1985
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas A Burton, Rochester, MN (US);
Assignee:
Waters Instruments, Inc., Rochester, MN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1283 / ; 128316 ; 1283 / ; 81-922 ;
Abstract
A skin marking device comprising a finger-held tubular barrel having a narrow opening at one end, and a needle carried in the barrel and having a pointed end extending outwardly through the narrow barrel opening, the needle and opening forming an annular flow passage. A dye is carried within the barrel in flow communication with the annular flow passage to provide dye to the end of the barrel from when it may be drawn by contact with the skin to be marked. In one embodiment, the needle may be axially moved between extended and retracted positions.