MXPA97006326A - Packaging with insurance for a jeri - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a secure container for a syringe, which comprises: means defining a syringe receiving cavity including a pair of cover members each having an outer surface end, at least part of one of the members of said pair of members of the cover is movable with respect to the other member of the cover between the open and closed conditions by means of an integral assembly of hinges that allows access to said receiving cavity of the syringe located between them means for supporting a syringe within one of the members of said pair of cover members and oriented in said syringe receiving cavity; means for supporting a key for locking in one of the members of said pair of cover members; and oriented in said receiving cavity of the syringe, a key for elongated lock supported removably in said means to support a key for lock and having a latch at one end and an amplified head at the other end, means defining a pair of axially aligned holes when said cover members are in closed position, one of said holes is provided by a member of said pair of members of the cover and the other hole is provided by the other member of said pair of cover members, and fixed latch means oriented in one of the two aligned holes to operatively engage said latch when the amplified head makes contact with the outer surface end of one of the members of the pair of cover members in a region adjacent to the other hole of the pair of holes to effect the securing of both members of the cover in said closed position by means of a movement of said ends. members of the cover to an open position will be provided access to the syringe and said key to lock oriented in said cavity receiving the syringe and facilitating removal of the syringe and said key to lock the syringe receiving cavity, a movement of the cover members to a closed position causes the syringe, if it is dirty and has been placed back into said syringe. The receiving cavity of the syringe, converts into a container to the syringe receiving cavity, said pair of relatively movable holes receive inside them the end of the key lock having said latch until said latch is operatively fit in the latch means and the amplified head makes contact with said outer surface extremity, while the key for locking is immobilized within the holes and the cover members are from that moment secured together in the closed position.

Description

PACKAGING WITH SAFE FOR A SYRINGE BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a container with a lock and, more particularly, to a container with a safe adapted to store a syringe, an ampoule and a key for the lock, the key being used for the lock, to close the container with lock in a closed condition, after a used syringe was put in there again. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION It has been demonstrated in the health care industry that the handling of syringes can be problematic due to accidental pickets and adhesions in the fingers, arms and other parts of the body, through needles contaminated with syringes that have been previously used, when administering drugs or when drawing blood from patients. This problem has become particularly acute, with respect to the concern about Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, or "AIDS", as well as the outbreak of several hepatitis strains. Patents that are known, and which describe these types of problems are US Pat. Nos. 4,696,554; 4,979,616; 5,024,323; 5,024,326; 5,133,454; 5, 156, 267; 5,293,993; and European Patent No. EP-367,422. . Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a package or a secure container having a pair of movable cover members and which are interconnected in a fixed manner between the open and closed positions to allow the access to a receiving cavity of a syringe, which is located between the members of the cover, wherein the members of the cover have a structure that part of them, adapted to receive a key for the lock in it, and thus to close together the two members of the cover in the closed position, and in this way, conveniently prevent access to the content that is inside the container, which is now closed with a lock. It is a further object of the present invention to provide a secure container, such as the one described above, which has in there a structure holding a syringe, as well as a structure that holds the key for the lock with a key for the elongated lock stored in removable form in the structure holding the lock key, which when the cover members have been moved to the open position, allows access to a syringe held by the structure holding the syringe, and the Access to the key for the lock, through the structure that holds the key for the lock. It is an object of the present invention to provide a secure container, such as the one described above, wherein one of the cover members has a supporting structure for the ampule located therein, to which it is attached. can have access when the cover members have been moved to the open position.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The objects and purposes of the present invention are met by providing a secure packaging structure, wherein the package will provide a convenient and safe disposable receptacle for the syringe and needle thereof, and which can then be closed, to prevent the syringe and needle from being a hazard. The open box receives the used syringe on the support side, and can be closed under pressure and secured to dispose of said package in a safe manner. The thickness of the packing wall is strong enough so that the needle of the syringe can not prick it, and thus provide a safe unit for disposing of the needle. A key for the lock is provided to close the package so that access to the used syringe can not be achieved, which is in the package after the key has been inserted to close it, and the covers are perfectly closed .

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Other objects and purposes of the present invention, will be appreciated by the persons who are familiar with the apparatuses of this type in general, when reading the following detailed description of the invention and analyzing it in conjunction with the drawings that the accompany, and in which: Figure 1 is an isometric view of a secure container or container, which is in the open position, wherein the container with lock incorporates the present invention; Figure 2 is an isometric view of a secure container or container, illustrated in Figure 1 but having a syringe, a vial and a key for the lock, which are shown in a cavity of one of the members of the cover; Figure 3 is a sectional view, taken along line 3-3 of Figure 1; Figure 4 is a side elevational view of a key for the lock, to which the present invention has been incorporated; Figure 5 is a sectioned view of a lockable container, which is illustrated in Figure 3, but with the cover members illustrated in the closed position, and the key for the lock placed to close the members together Of the cover; and Figure 6 is a top view of a container that is in the open position, which is illustrated in Figure 1.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION Certain terminology, which is found in the following description, will be used for convenience only to establish a reference and will not be limiting of the present invention. The words "above", "below", "right" and "left" will designate the directions in the drawings to which reference is made. The words "inside" and "outside" will refer to the forward and outward directions, with respect to the geometric center of the apparatus, and the designated parts thereof. This terminology will include derivatives and words of similar importance.

A container with lock 10 is illustrated in the drawings and has the present invention incorporated. More particularly, the secure container 10 includes a pair of cover members 1 1 and 12, connected to each other, through an integral segment 13, which defines a hinge in action. Each of the members of the cover 1 1 and 12, has in them, a cavity 16 and 17, respectively. The cavity 16 includes a bottom wall 18, surrounded by a vertical side wall 19. The corners of the vertical side wall 19 are surrounded and the overall shape of the cavity 16 is more or less rectangular. The cavity 17 inside the cover member 12 is generally identical to the cavity 16. More specifically, the cavity 17 has a bottom wall 21, and a vertical side wall 22, surrounding the bottom wall 21. The corners of the side wall 22 are also surrounded, and the upper end 23 corresponds to the upper end 24 of the side wall 19. In this particular embodiment, the end 23 has an outwardly placed passage defining a surface generally in horizontal form 26, and a contiguous surface placed in vertical form 17, ending in an upper edge 28, adjacent to the interpa surface of the side wall in vertical form 22. The end 24 in the members of the cover 1 1, has a step placed outwardly in an internal manner defined by a horizontally extended surface 31, and a contiguous surface placed vertically 32, tearing into an edge 33 adjacent to the outer surface 34 of the cover member 1 1. When the members of the cover 1 1 and 12 are rotated about an axis around the hinge in action 13, up to the closed position, as illustrated in Figure 5, the edge 33 will be placed on the surface and horizontal 26, and the vertical surfaces 27 and 32, will oppose each other. further, the edge 28 will be placed on the horizontal surface 31, to define a labyrinth seal. The cover member 1 1, includes a clasp 36, and the cover member 12, includes a kind of clasp 37, which, when the members of the cover 1 1 and 12 are in the closed position, operatively holds an of the other inclined surfaces 38 and 39, in such a way as to hold temporarily in the closed position, the members of the cover 1 1 and 12. The cavity 17 in the cover member 12 includes a plurality of supports thin wall, in vertical form 41, 42 and 43, at the junction between the bottom wall 21, and the segment of the vertical wall 22, adjacent to the hinge in action 1 3. Each of the supports 41, 42 and 43, includes an arc-shaped depression 44, 45 and 46 at the upper end thereof, the radius of said arc being in a manner that corresponds to the exterior of a syringe tube 47, of a syringe assembly 48. illustrated in Figure 2. The syringe assembly 48 includes the tube 47 mentioned previously, a piston 49 movable inside the tube of the syringe 47, and a needle fitted in a cover 51, at the end of the tube of the syringe 47, away from the plunger. The syringe assembly 48, is a conventional construction, and in the present description, no further comment is presented in this regard,. An additional support of the thin wall 52 is in vertical form from the bottom wall 21, at the junction between the bottom wall 21 and the side wall part 22, containing the clasp 37. The support 52, similar to the supports 41, 42 and 43, has an arc-shaped depression 53, at the upper end thereof. As illustrated in Figure 2, it is adapted to receive an ampoule in the cavity 17, with a reduced diameter neck 52 therein, said ampule in the arc-shaped depression 53 being received. As illustrated in FIGS. Figures 3 and 5, each of the vertical supports 41, 42, 43 and 52, are located in the interior in spaced form, from the side wall in vertical form 22. The cavity 17, additionally includes a hollow sheath in vertical form 56, which has a deep opening 57, which extends through the center through it. In this particular embodiment, the hollow sheath 56 is more or less frusto-conical in shape, the longer diameter end being adjacent to the bottom wall 21 of the cover member 12, and terminating the shorter diameter end at a slightly higher elevation than the edge 28, as illustrated in Figures 3 and 5. The deep opening 57 has an adjacent 58 at the end thereof, away from the bottom wall 21, extended in the interior which part of the center, which defines a knocker. The bottom wall 18 of the cover member 1 1 has a vertical hollow sheath 61 provided therein, wherein the hollow sheath has a deep opening 62 extending centrally therethrough. The upper end of the hollow sheath 61, ends below the edge 33, when the members of the cover 1 1 and 12, are in the closed position, as illustrated in Figures 3 and 5, the deep opening 62 being oriented from coaxially, with respect to the deep opening 57. There is a relatively distant separation between the ends of the hollow sheaths 56 and 61, as illustrated in Figure 5. The bottom wall 21 of the cavity 17, includes a vertical support 63. The vertical support 63 includes a pair of side walls in parallel form 64 and 65, and an interconnected wall 66, attached to the side walls 64 and 65, approximately at an average length thereof, so as to be defines a figure in the form of H. A plurality of marks with stripes 67 project outwardly from opposite sides placed outwardly from the interconnected wall 66, as illustrated in Figure 6. A key for the lock is provided (Figures 1 and 4), and includes an amplified head 69, and a pair of dependent legs, in parallel form 71 and 72, each ending in a respective relatively distant end 73 and 74, of the respective supports 75 and 76, which each define, a latch adapted to operatively fit into the count of the knocker 58, at the relatively separate end of the hollow sheath 56. legs 71 and 72, have opposed flat surfaces 77 and 78. Opposite planar surfaces 77 and 78 are adapted to slidably join the relatively spaced end of the edges 67 provided in the interconnected wall 66, extending between the side walls 64 and 65 of the support 63, in order to hold the key for the lock on the support 63, as illustrated in Figure 2. The key for the lock 68, is interrupted by movable parts, by the side walls 64 and 65. The only way for the key 68, to be removed from the support 63, is by the movement of the key 68, relative to the support 63, along the direction of the arrow A.

In this particular embodiment, the amplified head 69 of the key for the lock 68 is in the form of a filler lock to symbolize to the user that the key for the lock 68 is for carrying out the task of closing with a lock. More specifically, and referring to Figure 5, when the members of the cover 1 1 and 12 are in the closed position and the deep openings 57 and 62 are aligned axially, the key for the lock 68 is oriented from so that the legs 71 and 72, first extend through the deep opening 62, and past the knocker count 58 therefrom, through the deep opening 57, until the supports of the legs 75 and 76 are oriented under the count of the knocker 58. The key for the lock 68, and in particular, the leg 72 thereof, is elastically manufactured to facilitate a movement of the supports of the legs 75 and 76, which pass through the account of lock 58, and are insured, from the center of the lock account, in e | at which moment the amplified head 69, becomes joined with the outer surface 34, of the cover member 1 1. The container, at this moment is closed with insurance. During normal use, and when it is time to have access to the syringe assembly 48 and the ampoule 54, which are inside the secure container 10, the attached fasteners 36 and 37 will be released in a manner that facilitates a movement of the cover member 1 1, relative to the cover member 12, to the open position, as illustrated in Figure 2. The assembly of the syringe 48 and the ampule 54 can be removed from the cavity. 17. Immediately after using the syringe, it will be desirable to dispose of the syringe in a safe manner. The syringe assembly. used 48, is again placed inside the cavity 17, on the supports 41, 42 and 43, and if desired, the ampule is replaced on the support 52. Subsequently, the key for the lock 68, can be moved towards above, outside the support 63, in the direction of the arrow A, and up to the position illustrated in Figure 1. Subsequently, the members of the cover 1 1 and 12 can be moved to the closed position, as illustrated in Figure 5, so that the key for the lock 68 can be inserted into the deep openings 57 and 62, which are now axially aligned, to cause the leg supports 75 and 76 to be oriented towards the center of the amount of the knocker 58, as described above. The thickness of the wall of the cover members 1 1 and 12 is strong enough to prevent an exposed needle from inadvertently passing through the side wall of the material of the cover members. However, that a particular preferred embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail and exclusively for illustrative purposes, it will be recognized that variations or modifications of the described apparatus, including the repositioning of the parts, are within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (8)

1. Claims 1. A secure container for a syringe, comprising: a pair of cover members (11, 12), which are relatively movable between the open and closed conditions, by means of an integral hinge (13). ); and means for supporting a syringe (41, 42, 43), within the interior of the cover members; characterized by: a key for the lock, which comprises a latch (75, 76) at one end, and an amplified head (69) at the other end; a pair of holes (57, 62), one in each of the cover members, which are axially aligned when the cover members are in the closed condition, and which are adapted to receive movably, the key of the latch thereof; and latch means (58), fixed in the hole (57), in one member of the cover (12), to fit operatively with the latch, when the amplified head makes contact with the outer surface of the other member of the cover 1 1, in a region adjacent to the hole (62) in that other member of the cover, being secured together, the key that is not moving inside the holes, and "as the deck members, in the condition closed.
2. 2. A container as described in Claim 1, further characterized in that it additionally comprises means (63) for supporting the key within one of the members of the cover. A container as described in Claim 2, further characterized in that said means for supporting the key includes a vertical post (63), and the key includes means (77, 78) for operatively engaging the post . A container as described in Claim 3, further characterized in that the post has a pair of side walls in parallel (64, 65), interconnected by an intermediate wall (66), extending between the side walls, shaped orthogonal to it, and the key including a pair of legs manufactured in an elastic form and placed in spaced form (71, 72), adhered to a common side of the amplified head, in such a way that the legs are standing on the intermediate wall, when the key is held by the means to support the key. A container as described in any of the preceding claims, further characterized in that it additionally comprises, inside one of the members of the cover, a holder of the vial (52, 53). A container as described in any of Claims 2 to 4, and 5, further characterized in that the means for holding the syringe, the means for holding the key, and the holder of the vial are provided. on the same deck member. A container as described in any of the preceding claims, further characterized in that the hole including the means of the knocker, is defined by a hollow sheath (56), formed integrally in one of said members, and means of the knocker, are defined by an inner edge projecting into the hole, and adjacently, to a relatively distant end of the sheath. A container as described in any of the preceding claims, further characterized in that the cover members include members of the clasp which engage and are released. EXCERPT OF THE INVENTION A secure packaging structure in which the package will provide a convenient and safe disposable receptacle for the syringe and needle thereof, and which can then be closed, to prevent the syringe and needle from being a danger . The open box, receives the syringe used on the support side, and can be closed under pressure and secured to dispose of said packaging in a safe manner. The thickness of the packing wall is strong enough so that the needle of the syringe can not prick it, and thus provide a safe unit for disposing of the needle. A key for the lock is provided to close the package so that access to the used syringe can not be achieved, which is in the package after the key has been inserted to close it, and the covers are perfectly closed .