US1814650A

US1814650A - Medicament container

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Publication number: US1814650A
Application number: US319897A
Authority: US
Inventors: Ralph B Waite
Original assignee: ANTIDOLOR Manufacturing CO Inc
Current assignee: ANTIDOLOR Manufacturing Co Inc
Priority date: 1928-11-16
Filing date: 1928-11-16
Publication date: 1931-07-14
Anticipated expiration: 1948-07-14

Description

July 14, 1931.

R. B. WAITE MEDIGAMENT CONTAINER Filed NOV. 16, 1928 f @Lw Patented lJuly. 14, 1931 UNITED STATE-S PATENT 4oFl-ucle:

RALPH B. WAITE, 0F SPRINGVILLE, NEW YOEK, ASSIGNOR T0 THE ANTIDOLOB MFG. CO. INC., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE MEDICAMENT CONTAINER Application led November My invention relates to medicament containers and is particularly concerned with containers for medicaments which are administered hypodermically. The object of the invention is to provide an improved `stoppered bottle from which doses of the medicament may be withdrawn by a hypodermic syringe whose needle is made to pierce a pliable plug.

Medicament containers of these general characteristics are old in the art, but, as before stated, I provide an improved construction the features of Which will be pointed out as this description proceeds.

This application is in part a continuation of my application, Serial No. 221,909 which I filed on September 26, 1927.

In the accompanying drawings Fig. `1 is an elevational view of the medicament container of myinvention;

Fig. 2 is a sectional view, taken on plane of line 2-2 of Fig. 1 and looking in the direction indicated by the arrows, and being on a somewhat larger scale;

Fig. 3 is an under side view of the pliable plug to which reference will be made;

Figs. l to 7 show modications.

The container itself is in the form of a bottle 4. having the neck 5, formed on the outside with threads 6 and on the inside with a shoulder 7.

The plug 8 of soft pliable material, such as soft rubber or composition, is disposed in the upper end of the bottle neck, this plug being circular and of such diameter as to lit just snugly within the enlarged upper end of the bottle neck as shown. Furthermore, this plug is of a thickness equal to the distance between the shoulder 7 and the top of the bottle. The result is that at no time is the plug under any more pressure than that which is absolutely necessary to keep it in its place when the bottle is inverted.

The underside of the plug 8 is hollowed out or cut away hemispherically as indicated at 9, in order to reduce the thickness of the central portion at 10 for a purpose which will be referred to presently.

A metal cap 11 is threaded onto the bottle neck, as indicated, a cork disc 12 being pro- 1s. 192s. serial No. 319,897.

vided in the cap to be forced down upon the top of the bottle. In screwing home the cap 11, no pressure is exerted upon plug 8, by reason of the arrangement and relative dimensions which have been referred to.

When it is desired to charge a hypodermic syrlnge, the cap 11, with its disc 12, is unscrewed and removed, the needle of the hy podermic is made to pierce the central portion of the plug 8, the container inverted, and the syringe plunger actuated. The syringe needle is then withdrawn and the aperture in the plug 8 is self closing due to the nature of the material of which it is made.

By providing an arrangement in which the plug 8 is neither compressed nor relied upon normally to stopper the bottle, I am enabled to employ, for the plug 8, material best adapted for the purpose of closing the piercings and best from the standpoint of cleanliness. Furthermore, the arrangement whereby the top of the plug is flush and edge to edge with the top of the bottle neck contributes further to this essential cleanliness.

In Figure 4, I show a modilied form to act as a treated gauze strip container. In this case the plug Sais pierced to permit of withdrawal of the gauze therethrough with tweezers.

In Fig. 5 I have shown a further form to act as a container for a treated gauze strip.

In this case the plug 8b, similar to the plug 8a of Fig. 4, is reversed in position so that the recess 9 is on the upper side. In that position, as shown, when the end of the gauze strip is cut with a scissors flush with the to there is, within the recess 9, a small protruding end which may be grasped by a tweezers. In this way the gauze is always ready to be withdrawn, without diiiiculty.

In Fig. 6 I show a further modified form, in which an intermediate cap 13, of cellulose material, pierced or cut away at the top at 14, is interposed between the glass bottle neck 5 and the cap 11 of metal, this intermediate cap l preferably extending down over Y the threads 6. This improves the sealing of the bottle and also operates to hold the lug in place against possible withdrawal iy the withdrawal of the needle.

Fig. 7 shows a modification in which the stopper 8 is extended down from the shoulder in the bottle neck, as indicated at 17, and is provided with a flange 15 resting on the top rim of the bottle, a depression 16 being provided in the top ofthe stopper to facilitate the piercing.

I claim In combination, a bottle, a closure means 10 therefor, said closure means having a recess in the outer surface thereof, and gauze or the like passing through the closure means in line with the recess, said recess enablin the gauze to be withdrawn from the bott e through the recess so that after severance of the gauze a projecting p0rtion will remain in said recess for gripping.

In witness whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name this 25th day of October, 1928.

RALPH B. WAITE.