Valved nozzle for re-usable reservoir of a flowable product
CA 2058892 C · Owner: Szumilas, Christopher G. · Inventors: Cameron, John E.; Schuurmans, Tjalke K.; Watson, Robert K.
Overview
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A re-usable nozzle for dispensing a flowable product from a resilient container has a removable one-way valve which facilitates cleaning and sterilisation of the nozzle. When the nozzle is used for dispensing a flowable pharmaceutical the, nozzle controls the amount of suck hack of pharmaceutical into the nozzle on completion of dispensing. With a stand off of the valve float from the valve seat during dispensing of about one eighth of an inch (1) the suck back is sufficient to draw any drop of contaminated pharmaceutical at the tip of nozzle on completion of dispensing into the nozzle so as to reduce the risk of contamination of the environment and (2) the suck back is sufficiently small …
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- Filed January 7, 1992 and granted June 1, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended January 7, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by January 7, 2014.
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