Patent ID: 8162139
Filing Date: 2012-04-24
Classification: A61B,A61M

Abstract:
1. A sharps disposal system comprising: a substantially rigid cabinet defining an inner chamber, where the cabinet includes a bottom, sidewalls and reinforcing flanges fixed to the sidewalls and offset inwardly for leading edges of the sidewalls and a cross bar including a cross bar slot fixed interconnecting the flanges; a sharps receptacle contained within the cabinet including a closed end and an opened end, where the opened end has a diameter greater than a diameter of the closed end; a first access door pivotally connected to a top edge of the cabinet and comprising a top of the cabinet and adapted to transition between a closed state and an opened state and including a hollow conduit centered in the first access door and depending downwardly from and welded to a bottom surface of the first access door and defining a hole in the first access door, where a distal end of the conduit extends into the opened end of the receptacle, where the conduit is sized in length and diameter to minimize placing unintended items into the sharps disposal system and to prevent getting a finger or hand down into the sharps receptacle and where the conduit rotates upwardly out of the way of the opened end of the receptacle, when the first access door is opened; a second access door pivotally connected to a side or bottom edge of the cabinet including a facing surface having a surface slot adapted to align with the cross bar slot when the second access doors is in a closed state to form aligned slots; and lock means for locking the two access doors of the cabinet including a lock lever, where the lock means transitions between a locked state, where the lock lever is received into the aligned slots and an unlocked state, where the lock lever rotates out of the aligned slots and where the lock means secures the cabinet from unauthorized tampering when in the locked state, where the doors in their opened states allow access to the inner chamber for removing or replacing the receptacle, where a portion of the doors contact each other when the doors are in their closed states and where the lock means is capable of locking the two doors simultaneously when the doors are in their closed states and the lock means is in its locked state.