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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:
Dec. 12, 1989
Filed:
Oct. 31, 1988
Applicant:
Inventor:
Kevin D Foster, Atlanta, GA (US);
Assignee:
Porex Technologies Corp. of Georgia, Fairburn, GA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
215247 ; 53471 ; 53485 ; 53489 ; 215319 ; 220287 ;
Abstract
A cap for sealing evacuated tubes has a plurality of sealing surfaces to seal tubes of various sizes and a septum of self-closing material to permit a needle to pass for the withdrawal or injection of fluids. The sealing surfaces are defined by a plurality of annular bands extending in series from a top wall, as well as a skirt which depends from the top wall and surrounds the annular bands.