Patent ID: 7753877

Claim:
A needle guard clip adapted for use with a needle having a needle shaft and a sharp tip at one end of said needle shaft, the needle guard comprising: a member having a first wall having a needle passage therethrough and a generally parallel, single second wall spaced from and confronting the first wall, the member having a first position relative to said needle shaft in which said needle shaft is freely slidable through the needle passage with said needle tip extending past the first and second walls, the member having a second position relative to said needle shaft in which said needle tip is repositioned to between the first and second walls and said needle shaft is gripped by the needle passage; the member further having a pair of struts interconnecting the first and second walls and defining an aperture therebetween, the first and second walls extending in the same direction from the pair of struts, the first wall and the struts being in a fixed angular relationship which is generally the same in both the first and second positions of the member.