Matthew A Murray

US Patent:

58295895, Nov 3, 1998

Filed:

Sep 12, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/928275

Inventors:

Tuan V. Nguyen - Rockaway NJ
Michael A. Dibiasi - West Milford NJ
Robert E. West - Morristown NJ
Matthew Murray - Mattapoisett MA
Scott Reed - Monroe CT
William J. Allen - Stratford CT
Jeffrey A. Stein - Woodbridge CT

Assignee:

Becton Dickinson and Company - Franklin Lakes NJ

International Classification:

B65D 8524

US Classification:

206366

Abstract:

A pen needle magazine dispenser designed to be received and carried in a cap of a medication delivery pen. The dispenser having a cover rotatably mounted on a circular shaped container with a plurality of cavities, wherein each cavity is dimensioned to receive one pen needle. The pen needle being of a type that is forced fit into an adaptor on the pen using threads on the pen needle and corresponding threads in the cavity. The cover includes a slot that is rotated into alignment with one of the cavities in the container to provide the user with access to one unused pen needle and thereby permit the pen needle to be mounted on the pen. After use the used pen needle is returned to the cavity and the cover is rotated until the slot is aligned with another cavity containing the next unused pen needle to be used during the next injection.