Abstract: A flexible container for fluid administration is provided having a body defining a cavity, a base, and at least one port comprising a flange in contact with a flange of a terminal port having a punctureable membrane layer. The body has a cross-sectional configuration including a lower body section of a first dimension, a middle body section of a second dimension, and an upper body section of a third dimension, wherein the second dimension is smaller than the first dimension and the third dimension. The flexible container may also include a base having a plurality of creases that are foldable to form two folded ends each including an extension having a base of a first dimension and a tip of a second dimension.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 23, 2012
Date of Patent:
April 19, 2016
Assignee:
B. Braun Medical Inc.
Inventors:
Steve Smith, Joachim Beine, Bill Sperko
Abstract: The invention proposes a process for the production of a container for pharmaceutical and medical applications made from glass, preferably from a borosilicate glass, wherein the container is produced by a press-blow process where the container is initially preformed in a pressing step, by making a ram press a dispensed glass drop into a mold that is open at its bottom, and where the parison so produced is given its final form by a subsequent blowing step.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 5, 2010
Date of Patent:
June 18, 2013
Assignee:
Schott AG
Inventors:
Andreas Langsdorf, Juergen Thuerk, Aurel Kunz, Ulrich Lange, Joachim Kuester, Bernd Loeffelbein, Marcus Meinefeld, Uwe Rothhaar, Axel Ohlinger
Abstract: An apparatus and method for manufacturing small quantities of cigarettes in a substantially simultaneous fashion while maintaining consistent quality between the cigarettes. The invention provides an apparatus and method for simultaneously inserting charges of tobacco into pre-formed tubular cigarette wrappers.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 14, 2006
Date of Patent:
July 28, 2009
Assignee:
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Inventors:
Timothy Frederick Thomas, Vernon Brent Barnes, John Larkin Nelson, August Joseph Borschke
Abstract: A process for the remelting of glass bars, including the steps of introducing a glass bar into an upper end of a receiving shell; providing a molten bath having a surface underneath the receiving-shell; positioning the receiving shell such that a lower edge of the receiving shell is located at the height of the surface or above it; heating a lower end of the glass bar to a temperature above a softening temperature of the glass, resulting in a melt-off process at the lower end of the glass bar to produce a melt stream; controlling the melt-off process such that the melt stream continuously enters the molten bath proximate the surface with avoidance of a constriction; and drawing off melt from the molten bath by means of an arrangement for drop generation.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 27, 2000
Date of Patent:
October 12, 2004
Assignee:
Schott Glas
Inventors:
Andreas Langsdorf, Hildegard Römer, Paul Kissl
Abstract: A molten glass parison is expanded to the shape of a mould cavity (16) to thereby form the parison into an article of glassware (A). Air is supplied under pressure to the interior of the parison so that an elevated pressure is created in the parison causing it to expand. The air under pressure passes through an on/off valve (30) before entering the parison and, during the blowing process, the air supply is interrupted at least twice by turning the valve off. Thus, the pressure is caused to fluctuate, during the blowing process.