Patents Assigned to Brothers Family Investments, L.C.
  • Patent number: 5478315
    Abstract: A local anesthetic injection system that is suitable for use with smaller children for providing an essentially pain free injection of a local anesthesia into a child's epidermis skin layer, above nerve endings, to deaden that skin area to receive an injection of a medicine through that deadened area utilizing a conventional hypodermic needle. The several embodiments of the system include a body that has a cup arrangement with a flat edge upstanding wall and is open thereacross. The cup is arranged to receive a force applied to the top thereof to urge the cup flat edge into the surface of a section of skin whereon the cup rests, causing the skin within the cup to be formed into a dome shape. A small hollow needle is maintained within the cup such that an open bevel needle end extends at an angle just below the plane of the cup edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1995
    Assignee: Brothers Family Investments, L.C.
    Inventors: William S. Brothers, Brian H. Brothers