Patent ID: 6651405
Filing Date: 2003-11-25
Classification: A61M,B23P

Abstract:
An apparatus for mounting a tip cap having a maximum diameter over a syringe subassembly having a syringe body with an end carrying a needle, the apparatus comprising:a holder holding the subassembly with the needle substantially on an axis; a tubular guide having a feed passage generally centered on the axis adjacent the holder, of an inside diameter greater than the maximum tip-cap diameter, and open toward the holder; a stop movable between a blocking position between the guide and the holder and an unblocking position offset therefrom; means for feeding the tip cap through the passage to a position arrested on the stop in the blocking position thereof; means including a nozzle opening transversely of the axis into the passage for injecting pressurized gas into the passage and spinning the tip cap in the passage about the axis so as to center the tip cap on the axis; and means for moving the stop from the blocking into the unblocking position for displacing the tip cap from the guide onto the syringe subassembly in the holder.