Patents Examined by Richard R Shaffer
  • Patent number: 7270667
    Abstract: A device for the manual metering of a medical fluid, such as a hardening resin of the bone cement type, comprises a chamber for the fluid to be metered (2, 102) with an end opening (6), a gripping handle (7, 107), a piston (10, 110) which is housed in the chamber (2, 102) and provided with an operating member (12) for a user, and screw-type actuating means (13) arranged in between the operating member (12) and the piston (10) so as to perform the longitudinal movement thereof and pressurise the fluid to be metered. The screw means (13) may be modified so as to change from an operative configuration, where the piston is fed micrometrically, to an inoperative configuration, where the piston may move freely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2007
    Assignee: TECRES SpA
    Inventors: Giovanni Faccioli, Renzo Soffiatti