Inventors:
Jeffrey Lewis Wiley - Newton NJ, US
Thomas Alan Halvorson - Hillsborough NJ, US
Assignee:
Watson Laboratories, Inc. - Salt Lake City UT
International Classification:
B67B 7/92, B26F 3/00
Abstract:
An ampoule opener having a receiving body sized to accommodate a cap portion of an ampoule and a shield extending from the receiving body and being configured to lie adjacent a medicament storing portion of the ampoule when the cap portion of the ampoule is accommodated within the receiving body. The shield is rigidly related to the receiving body so as to be more resistive to bending relative to the receiving body in a direction away from a longitudinal axis of the receiving body than toward the longitudinal axis of the receiving body.