US20060081647A1 - Means for compressing tubes and the like - Google Patents
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- A61M—DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY; DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY; DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR
- A61M1/00—Suction or pumping devices for medical purposes; Devices for carrying-off, for treatment of, or for carrying-over, body-liquids; Drainage systems
- A61M1/83—Tube strippers, i.e. for clearing the contents of the tubes
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- This invention relates to devices and methods for use in compressing hollow flexible tubes to express matter contained therein. It is particularly, but not exclusively, suited to stripping blood from tubes that are connected to blood packs.
- the devices disclosed and illustrated in our prior patent application each had a pair of rollers that could be brought together to form a nip to pinch the tube and then rotated to draw the tube through the nip, thereby stripping or expressing the contents of the tube. If desired, the rotation of the rollers could be reversed and the tube driven in the opposite direction to allow it to fill with mixed blood and anticoagulant from the blood bag. After repeating the stripping and refilling steps one or two times, the full tube can be heat-sealed to form a sausages-string of sample pouches of blood that are very useful for use in cross-matching at a later date. Of course, at the end of the stripping procedure, the rotation of the rollers is stopped and the rollers are moved apart to allow the tube to be removed from the stripping device.
- the present invention is based upon the realization that design and performance advantages in tube stripping devices, especially compact hand-held devices, if the roller movement that forms the nip is always at an angle to the plane that contains the axes of the rollers.
- the angle between the roller movement and the plane of the roller axes when the nip is formed can be anywhere between about 30 degrees and 90 degrees. This is to be contrasted with conventional roller systems where the roller movement is always coplanar with the plane of the roller axes; that is, the angle between the direction of roller movement and the plane of the axes when the nip is formed is zero.
- the present invention includes a device for expressing fluid from a tube by drawing the tube through the nip of a pair of rollers having spaced axes of rotation, one of the rollers being moveable toward the other to form the nip and away from the other to facilitate placement and removal of the tube from between the rollers, the device being characterized in that the moveable roller moves toward and away from the other in a direction that is at an angle to the plane that contains the axes of the rollers.
- a tube guide may be used to guide the tube as it enters and or leaves the nip of the rollers and to assist in keeping the tube in the central portion of the nip.
- the tube is thus constrained to follow a defined path between the rollers and the guide when it is being stripped, and it is convenient to say that this path is ‘longitudinal’ with respect to the tube since the tube is flexible and will seldom be straight along its entire length.
- the invention comprises a device for use in stripping fluid from a length of tube using rollers that can be brought together on opposite sides of the tube to form a nip between the rollers to compress the tube, at least one of the rollers being rotationally driven to draw the tube through the nip so as to expel fluid from the tube, the device being characterized in that the rollers are brought together to form the nip by moving one toward the other in a direction that has a longitudinal component with respect to the tube.
- the rollers and the guide extend cantilever-fashion from the body of the device and one of the rollers is driven by first drive means and the other roller is allowed to idle, the idler roller being supported on mounting means that can be moved toward and away from the driven roller (to close and open the nip) by second drive means.
- the mounting means can be in the form of a yoke that straddles a drive shaft connected to the driven roller, the idler roller being rotatably mounted on one of the arms of the yoke and the second drive means being coupled to the other arm of the yoke to drive it so that the idler roller can be driven toward or away from the driven roller in the desired manner.
- One way of driving the yoke is to employ a leadscrew that engages with a nut in the respective arm of the yoke, the leadscrew preferably being rotated by a worm gear that forms part of the second drive means and mounted on a frame that is fixed relative to the body of the device.
- FIG. 1 is and external plan view from above of the device of chosen example, the direction of view being indicated by arrow I on the end view of FIG. 4 .
- FIG. 2 is an external plan view from below of the device of FIG. 1 , the direction of view being indicated by arrow II on the end view of FIG. 4 .
- FIG. 3 is an external side elevation of the device of FIG. 1 , the direction of view being indicated by arrow III on the end view of FIG. 4 .
- FIG. 4 is an enlarged end elevation of the device of FIGS. 1-3 with the rollers shown in a partially open position.
- FIG. 5 is a reduced end view of the device of FIGS. 1-4 with the rollers in the closed position and a tube being pulled therethrough.
- FIG. 6 is a similar view to that of FIG. 5 but shows a modified device with an alternative arrangement of rollers in the closed position.
- FIG. 7 is a general perspective of the mechanism of the device of FIGS. 1-5 .
- FIG. 8 is an enlarged perspective of the mechanism shown in FIG. 7 , with some parts sectioned.
- the device 10 of the chosen example is a self-powered, hand-held blood line stripper for use by blood collection agencies to effect the mixing of the anticoagulant contained in a full blood pack (not shown) with the residual blood in the blood line tube (not shown in FIGS. 1-4 ) so that sample pouches can be formed.
- Device 10 has a two-piece molded body 12 comprised of left and right parts 12 a and 12 b , respectively, fitted together at joint line 13 .
- Body 12 has a head or front portion 14 that houses the roller mechanism (to be described) and a tail or rear portion 16 that houses a battery (not shown or described herein).
- a pair of rollers 18 and 20 and tube guide 22 project forward cantilever fashion from the front face 24 of body 12 and connector means 26 are provided on the rear end 28 of rear portion 16 for the connection of a battery charger (not shown or described herein).
- FIG. 1 A pair of pads 30 and 32 are affixed to the top of device 10 , as shown in FIG. 1 , to give the device a more comfortable grip for the user.
- the bottom of device 10 shown in FIG. 2 , has two pad-like switches 34 and 36 by which the device can be controlled, switch 34 having two positions for effecting the movement of rollers 18 and 20 together or apart, and switch 36 having one position for effecting the reversal of the roller rotation while switch 36 is operated.
- FIG. 3 is a side view of the device showing side 12 a in which a series of LEDs 38 indicate the level of charge of the battery.
- FIG. 4 is an enlarged end view of device 10 , showing rollers 18 and 20 in partially open, while FIG.
- FIG. 5 is the same view (but reduced in scale) showing rollers 18 and 20 in the closed position and a tube 40 in the nip of the rollers.
- arrow 42 indicates the direction of movement of tube 40
- arrows 44 indicate the direction of rotation of the rollers when device 10 is being operated as described below.
- guide 22 constrains tube 40 to move in a generally longitudinal direction, indicated by arrow 42 .
- roller 18 is mounted fixedly relative to body 12 of device 10 and is driven by first drive means (to be described), while roller 20 is an idler roller that is moveable within body 12 toward and away from fixed roller 18 , the direction of movement being vertical, that is, parallel with the joint 13 between the two halves 12 a and 12 b of body 12 and generally longitudinal with respect to the tube (when in place, as in FIG. 5 ).
- the direction of the movement of roller 20 is also indicated by a vertical slot 50 formed in the front face 24 of the device to accommodate the shaft of roller 20 is it moves. From FIG.
- rollers 18 and 20 overlap when viewed in the direction of travel of roller 20 (ie, vertically—see FIGS. 1 and 2 ) so that, when the nip X is formed, the plane or line Y that passes through the axes of the rollers is at a significant angle ⁇ —about 45 degrees in this case—to the movement of roller 20 as indicated by slot 50 .
- angles much smaller than this are undesirable, though angles as high as 90 degrees are possible, as illustrated by FIG. 6 .
- FIG. 6 shows a modified device 10 a that has rollers 18 a and 20 a that do not overlap at all when viewed in line with the direction of movement of roller 20 a , making angle ⁇ 90 degrees.
- tube 40 a travels essentially parallel with the movement of roller 20 a (ie., vertically in this case).
- the geometry of FIG. 6 may not be optimal because the pinch pressure cannot be adjusted by movement of a limit switch (not shown) that controls the position of the moving roller in the closed position.
- FIGS. 5 and 6 show arrangements where the angles between the direction of movement of the moveable roller and the plane of the roller axes are, respectively, about 45 and 90 degrees when the nip is formed, we have found that angles between about 30 degrees and 90 degrees can be used with advantage.
- FIGS. 7 and 8 the mechanism associated with rollers 18 and 20 will now be described, some portions of the mechanism being cut away or omitted in FIG. 8 for the sake of clarity.
- Fixed and driven roller 18 is attached to a shaft 60 that is driven directly by a low-voltage electric motor 62 via an integral planetary gearbox 64 , which are mounted on front portion 66 a of frame 66 .
- shaft 60 , motor 62 and gearbox 64 comprise the first drive means referred to above.
- the front portion of shaft 60 is supported for rotation in a bearing 68 that is mounted in a front portion 66 a of frame 66 .
- Idler roller 20 is mounted for free rotation on a short shaft or stub axle 70 that is rigidly attached to the bottom of one arm 72 a of a moveable yoke 72 located for vertical sliding movement in frame 66 .
- roller 18 has been cut away to show shaft 70 and the lower portion of yoke arm 72 a more clearly.
- Yoke 72 is driven up and down by means of a vertical leadscrew 74 that engages a nut 76 fixed in the top of yoke arm 72 b , which is bored to take leadscrew 74 .
- the top of leadscrew 74 is mounted for rotation in a bearing 76 fitted into a horizontal plate 66 b that forms part of frame 66 , the lower portion of leadscrew 74 being rotationally and slidingly located by a bearing 78 that is mounted in the bottom part of yoke arm 72 b and retained there by a circlip 80 .
- a worm-wheel 82 is fixed to leadscrew 74 below yoke arm 72 b , the lower extremity of leadscrew 78 being mounted for rotation in a bearing 84 fitted in a lower horizontal plate 66 c of frame 66 .
- Worm-wheel 82 is engaged by a worm 86 that is mounted on a horizontal shaft 88 that is driven by a second low-voltage motor and gearbox assembly 90 , the front end of shaft being located in a bearing (not shown) located in front element 66 a of frame 66 .
- the second drive means can encompass motor 90 , shaft 88 , worm and gear 86 and 82 and leadscrew 74 and nut 76 , either in their entirety or in part.
- the device need not be battery powered as power can readily be supplied to the drive means via a trailing electrical lead.
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| AU2002951618A AU2002951618A0 (en) | 2002-09-25 | 2002-09-25 | Means for compressing tubes and the like |
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| PCT/AU2003/001239 WO2004028591A1 (fr) | 2002-09-25 | 2003-09-19 | Moyens de compression de tubes et analogues |
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| WO2016176433A1 (fr) * | 2015-04-28 | 2016-11-03 | Vector Surgical, Llc | Dispositif et procédé d'évacuation de tubes |
| WO2022026611A1 (fr) * | 2020-07-30 | 2022-02-03 | Genentech, Inc. | Appareil de laminage pour faire avancer un liquide à travers un tube |
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| US1842000A (en) * | 1930-10-27 | 1932-01-19 | Philip H D Winsor | Dispensing device |
| US3822033A (en) * | 1971-08-03 | 1974-07-02 | H Hopf | Collapsible tube squeezing device |
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| WO2016176433A1 (fr) * | 2015-04-28 | 2016-11-03 | Vector Surgical, Llc | Dispositif et procédé d'évacuation de tubes |
| US10335520B2 (en) | 2015-04-28 | 2019-07-02 | Vector Surgical, Llc | Device and method for clearing tubing |
| US11141522B2 (en) | 2015-04-28 | 2021-10-12 | Vector Surgical, Inc. | Device and method for clearing tubing |
| US11975135B2 (en) | 2015-04-28 | 2024-05-07 | Vector Surgical, Llc | Device and method for clearing tubing |
| WO2022026611A1 (fr) * | 2020-07-30 | 2022-02-03 | Genentech, Inc. | Appareil de laminage pour faire avancer un liquide à travers un tube |
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