Abstract: An opening device for flexible packaging and a package having an opening device bonded thereto are provided, wherein the opening device concentrates tearing forces and provides increased tearing leverage, facilitating the opening of the packaging without the need for a sharp object to initiate the tear. The opening device may employ first and second wings spaced apart from one another at a narrow distance and joined at a proximal end by an integral web, which acts as a fulcrum for each of the wings as they are rotated to initiate the tear, or may employ first and second wings or levers secured to opposite sides of a sealed edge of the package, which levers operate about a common fulcrum at the innermost portions of the proximal ends of the levers to magnify and concentrate tearing forces.

Abstract: An opening device for flexible packaging is provided to concentrate tearing forces and provide increased tearing leverage, facilitating the opening of the packaging without the need for a sharp object to initiate the tear, the opening device having first and second wings spaced apart from one another at a narrow distance and joined at a proximal end by an integral web, which acts as a fulcrum for each of the wings as they are rotated to initiate the tear. The opening device is securely fastened to a peripheral edge of the package and a predetermined portion of the first and second wings extend outwardly away from the peripheral edge, the wings serving as gripping surfaces which are rotated apart from one another in initiating the tear in the package.

Abstract: An opening device for flexible packaging is provided to concentrate tearing forces and provide increased tearing leverage, facilitating the opening of the packaging without the need for a sharp object to initiate the tear, the opening device having first and second wings spaced apart from one another at a narrow distance and joined at a proximal end by an integral web, which acts as a fulcrum for each of the wings as they are rotated to initiate the tear. The opening device is securely fastened to a peripheral edge of the package and a predetermined portion of the first and second wings extend outwardly away from the peripheral edge, the wings serving as gripping surfaces which are rotated apart from one another in initiating the tear in the package.

Abstract: A syringe needle cap resheathing and removal apparatus is capable of single-handedly resheathing and removing needle caps of three different standard needle cap shapes. The apparatus can be fastened with an overcenter clamp to a patient's bed rail or other convenient location within a hospital. Three needle cap stations reachable by a common access gap in the apparatus correspond to three standard types of needle caps. The gap is angled to the horizontal to permit convenient visual and mechanical access to the respective needle cap operational stations. The apparatus can be rotated relative to the attachment of the clamp for the convenience and preference of the nurse or doctor.