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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 21, 1995
Robert Scott Osborne, Gahanna, OH (US);
Carl Joseph Piontek, Powell, OH (US);
Robert Donald Clegg, Pickerington, OH (US);
Bradford Lynn Buck, Gahanna, OH (US);
Matthew Scott Fleming, Columbus, OH (US);
Joseph Anthony Juratovac, Columbus, OH (US);
William Edward Patton, Dublin, OH (US);
Kathryn Elizabeth Alexander, Columbus, OH (US);
Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL (US);
Abstract
A tubing connector has first and second tubular legs joined together to provide a continuous fluid pathway therethrough with the fluid pathway having a bend of about 78 to 102 degrees therein. A foreshortened retention tab extends laterally from the tubing connector at about the bend in a direction opposed to the second leg of the tubing connector. A handle extends from the tubing connector at about a right angle to both the first and second legs and the retention tab. The tubing connector may be employed as a component of a fluid delivery set used with a pump for enteral or parenteral feeding of a patient.