Patent ID: 8967572
Filing Date: 2015-03-03
Classification: A61J,A61M,B01L,F16M

Abstract:
1. A holding system comprising: a base, a pair of elongate rods, each elongate rod having a first end and a second end located opposite of the first end, the rods being spaced from each other to create a gap therebetween, the first ends of the elongate rods being substantially immovably mounted on the base to maintain a fixed position of the elongate rods in a fixed orientation with respect to the base, and the second ends being substantially free of connection together, one of the elongate rods having an inward surface positioned opposite of an inward surface of another one of the elongate rods, the inward surfaces of the elongate rods being oriented parallel to each other such that the gap therebetween is uniform from the first ends to the second ends, each of the elongate rods being straight from the first end at the base to an endmost point of each rod at the second end; and a medication vial having a body portion with a hollow interior configured to hold a quantity of fluid, a neck portion and a mouth portion with an opening into the hollow interior, the neck portion having a diameter of a size less than a diameter of the body portion and less than a diameter of the mouth portion; wherein the neck portion of the vial is lodged in the gap between the pair of rods such that the rods contact the vial at only two locations to pinch the neck portion therebetween, the locations on the neck portion being located on substantially opposite sides of the neck portion between the body portion and the mouth portion; wherein at least one of the elongate rods has a resiliently compressible outer tube mounted thereon to provide a gripping of the neck portion of the vial that resists slippage or sliding of the vial between the rods; and wherein the medicine vial is in an inverted position with the body portion located above the pair of rods and the mouth portion is located below the rods with an opening of the mouth portion being positioned at a lowest location on the vial.