Apparatus for automatic insertion of a solid medicine

An apparatus for insertion of a medicine peg into the skin has a barrel wherein the medicine peg is stored and in which a plunger behind said peg can be moved to press the peg out through an end of the barrel pressed against the skin where it is intended to insert the peg, The plunger is a part of a...

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Main Author Sabra, Mads Christian
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 17.07.2012
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Summary:An apparatus for insertion of a medicine peg into the skin has a barrel wherein the medicine peg is stored and in which a plunger behind said peg can be moved to press the peg out through an end of the barrel pressed against the skin where it is intended to insert the peg, The plunger is a part of a flexible rod construction which can be passed from a first non rectilinear constellation, by which the plunger is withdrawn in the barrel to a position leaving space for the medicine peg in front of the plunger, to a rectilinear constellation by which the plunger projects from the end of the barrel and further to a new non rectilinear position in which the end of the plunger is withdrawn in the barrel.