Patent ID: 7004352

Claim:
An acupuncture needle container and dispenser to store and dispense a plurality of acupuncture needles, comprising: a transparent top cover piece, an opaque colored bottom piece with a distal end, a proximal end and a middle portion, said transparent top cover piece fits over the opaque colored bottom piece and forms a semi-oval needle reservoir at the distal end, a cylindrical inserter at the proximal end and a channel formed between the semi-oval needle reservoir and the cylindrical inserter to allow for an individual channeled movement of the plurality of acupuncture needles from the semi-oval needle reservoir through the formed channel and into the cylindrical inserter; an insertion tube within said cylindrical inserter with a longitudinal slit to receive an individual acupuncture needle from the plurality of needles moving through the channel; a plunger that fits into the insertion tube and pushes the acquired individual acupuncture needle through the cylindrical inserter, said plunger having a protruding twisting handle that has indicia coinciding with the position of the longitudinal slit on the insertion tube; and said plunger pushes the acquired individual acupuncture needle from the cylindrical inserter into an extrusion guide tube for use by a user.