Patent ID: 6719735
Filing Date: 2004-04-13
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
A hand grip adapter for use with an associated syringe having a hollow cylindrical body having an outlet at one end and a laterally extending flange at the opposite end, a piston disposed within and adapted for reciprocal movement in the body, a shaft attached to the piston and extending outwardly of the body at the opposite end and operative to impart reciprocal movement to the piston, and finger gripping means extending from the shaft, the adapter comprising:a thumb compression member; a pair of legs, each of said legs having a distal end and a proximal end, the proximal ends of said legs secured to said thumb compression member to cause said legs to depend from said thumb compression member in fixed spaced relation to one another and terminating in the distal ends; and brackets secured to the distal ends of said legs, said brackets spaced from one another and having parallel slots adapted to slidingly receive the flange of the cylindrical body of the syringe, whereby when said thumb compression member and the finger gripping means of the syringe are caused to be manually moved toward one another, relative reciprocal movement is imparted between the body of the syringe and the piston, thereby forcing the piston to be moved away from the outlet of the syringe.