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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 1987
Filed:
Jun. 30, 1986
William G Johnson, Burlington, Ontario, CA;
Gary B Romagnoli, St. Catherines, Ontario, CA;
Other;
Abstract
A container for disposable syringes has a body structure defining an interior chamber and a laterally elongated upper opening in an upward and forward surface of the container, the opening having a length and width sufficient to accept expended medical syringes of commonly used sizes broadside on, an upwardly opening lid for covering the opening and connected by a hinge to the rear of the elongated opening for movement upward and away from the opening, a laterally elongated chute extending into the body structure and having a front wall extending downwardly and rearwardly from the opening to a lower opening into the interior chamber, a wall extending downwardly from the hinge of the lid into the chute to form a labyrinth effective to arrest passage of a human hand through the chute short of the lower opening of the latter, and structure to control passage to the rear of the lower end of the front wall of the chute, into the interior chamber, of a syringe dropped down the chute. Preferably the wall is integral with the lid, whilst the control structure to the rear of the opening may be either a downward extension of the wall, or a separate structure. The structure of the container may be readily fabricated from either a cardboard blank, or from plastic or metal.