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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 16, 1998
Edward D. Dysarz, Houston, TX (US);
Other;
Abstract
A blood collection device combining an elongated needle cannula and vial insertion cannula fixed to a rotatable reel. The rotatable reel is supported in an L-shaped bowl and hollow stem combination. A sloping needle cannula is injected into a body or vein inside of a body so blood or other fluid flows from the body into the needle cannula and into the vial insertion cannula. A vial is inserted into the bowl until the vial insertion cannula penetrates the soft vial plug and the vial then is filled with blood or other fluid. When sufficient blood or fluid is drawn into the vial, the vial is removed and a lever or button is pushed, releasing a biased coil spring which causes the reel to rotate, thus winding the needle cannula and the vial insertion cannula around the reel, destroying the needle cannula and the vial insertion cannula and further pulling the needle cannula into the hollow stem and the vial insertion cannula into the bowl, preventing a person from being accidentally pricked or otherwise injured by either contaminated cannula.