Patent ID: 7721886

Claim:
A sharps container for facilitating the safe manual, sequential feeding of cylindrically shaped pen needles into said container for safe storage therein, said pen needles having a pre-selected outer diameter, and said container comprising: A. a housing with an internal storage space sized to accommodate a plurality of pen needles, and B. a recessed pen needle receiver within the housing and accessible therethrough including: (1) a manually rotatable body connected to the housing for rotation between a first position and a second position about an axis relative to the housing, (2) the rotatable body defining an elongated aperture sized and oriented to accept a pen needle generally along a direction parallel to a rotational axis of the pen needle, (3) the pen needle receiver sized to closely receive and rotationally engage the outer diameter of the pen needle; and wherein in the first position of the manually rotatable body the rotational axis of the pen needle is directed generally upward and in the second position of the manually rotatable body the rotational axis of the pen needle is directed generally downward such that when a pen needle is positioned in the recessed pen needle receiver and the manually rotatable body is rotated about the rotational axis from the first position to the second position, the pen needle falls out of said recessed receiver and into said internal storage space.