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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:
Mar. 14, 2000
Filed:
Dec. 02, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
David G Quinn, Grayslake, IL (US);
Assignee:
C. R. Bard, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
604178 ; 604174 ;
Abstract
A retention bolster for a flexible tube segment in a corporeal access tube assembly. The bolster includes a body molded in one piece of silicone rubber and cut into two legs along a portion of its length. One of the legs has a collar formed on its free end, with a lip under which the free end of the other leg nestles. To hold the legs together and grip a tube segment between them, an O-ring is rolled over the collar into a depression encircling both legs without contracting into the cut between the legs.