Patent ID: 8905994

Claim:
A valve assembly for use with a liquid container and a drug vial, the liquid container including dual access ports and containing liquid contents, and the drug vial having a drug vial stopper and a drug vial interior containing a medicament, the valve assembly comprising: (a) a drug vial adapter having a longitudinal drug vial adapter axis and including a drug vial adapter body with a top wall transverse to said longitudinal drug vial adapter axis, a pointed tubular cannula with a cannula tip for puncturing the drug vial stopper for establishing flow communication with the drug vial interior on mounting said drug vial adapter on the drug vial, and an upright male connector mounted on said top wall opposite said cannula and in flow communication therewith, said male connector having an uppermost annular male connector rim; and (b) an access port adapter having a longitudinal access port adapter axis co-directional with said longitudinal drug vial adapter axis and including an access port connector for sealing insertion into one of the access ports and a female connector for sealingly mounting on said male connector, said drug vial adapter being manually-reciprocally mounted on said access port adapter so as to be manually reciprocal with respect thereto along said longitudinal drug vial adapter axis between a closed position for precluding flow communication between the liquid container and the drug vial and an open position for enabling flow communication between the liquid container and the drug vial, said drug vial adapter being disposed toward said access port adapter on displacement from said open position to said closed position and away from said access port adapter on displacement from said closed position to said open position.