nelle,
How interesting! I'm hoping one of the inventors I have found is your
relative!
Credit for one of the first needles is given to to a Doctor Alexander
Wood, Secretary of the Scottish Royal College of Physicians of
Edinburgh in 1850. He had been trying for some time to arrive at an
efficient manner of delivering pain medication. Apparently, doctors of
the era believed that morphine would not be addictive if it was
administered intravenously and not orally. As often happens with such
inventions, another physician, Charles Gabriel Pravaz , a French
surgeon, simultaneously invented a hypodermic syringe! Benjamin Rubin
later invented a vaccinating type of needle.
Colin Murdoch in 1956 , a pharmacist from Timaru, New Zealand invented
a disposable syringe which was not widely accepted. Yet today, even
after 25 years as a medical technologist, I have never seen a glass
syringe in use, in the US! (They are still in use in rural Central and
South America however)
Phil Brooks got a patent for a disposable syringe on April 9, 1974,
and
Mark Prausnitz teamed together with Mark Allen to develop the
prototype microneedle device.This needle is made up of 400
silicon-based microscopic needles, each the width of a human hair.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsyringe.htm
As I poked around the internet looking for your answer, I came across
this interesting article, reprinted from The Journal of Laboratory and
Clinical Pathology
Vol. 12, No. 11, November, 1942.
http://www.ascp.org/general/about/evolve/memphis/innovations/needle.asp
http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/uselessfacts/invent/003.html
Jack Jensen, back in 1974 patented an “Anti-Hijacking needle” to be
used to subdue an unruly passenger or hijacker!
http://www.ycec.com/US-3841328.htm
To read about the leading edge in needle technology, check out this
site:
http://www.razoredgesystems.com/newtech.htm
Another modern interpretation of a painless needle was invented by
Seiji Aoyagi of the Kansai University in Osaka, Japan. He gleaned his
idea for a painless hypodermic needle from watching and feeling a
mosquito bite!
http://www.pitsco.com/the_cause/cause4inv.htm
John Morrison and Chester Moore invented a microneedle for ocular
blood vessels, in 1993.
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn10=US05364374
John Fuisz invented a beveled spinal tap needle in 1974
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn10=US03955558
Joseph Kaufman, 1981 invented vein entry indicator needle.
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn10=US04436098
By the way, you can go to the site I have posted in the above three
examples,
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn10=US04436098
and do a search by typing in your relatives name. Perhaps you can even
find the exact patent number this way!
I hope this helps you out. Are any of the above named inventors your
relative? If any part of my answer is unclear, please allow me to
clarify it before you rate. Utilizing the Answer Clarification process
will notify me that you are requesting a clarification.
Regards,
crabcakes
Search terms:
Hypodermic needle + history
Hypodermic needle inventor
Beveled needle history |
Clarification of Answer by
crabcakes-ga
on
19 Nov 2002 21:06 PST
nelle, I'll look some more for you. I used the single draw needles
too, even with vacutainers. We'd keep a chunk of gauze to sop up the
rapidly dripping blood while changing tubes! For blood gases, I have
only ever used disposable syringes, or for cap or fetal scalp gases,
of course, glass capillary tubes. Things have changed a lot since the
70's, eh? We used to run CBCs while drinking open cups of coffee too!
I'll get back to you tomorrow!
Regards, crabcakes
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Clarification of Answer by
crabcakes-ga
on
20 Nov 2002 08:34 PST
Hello again nelle,
I ran a search at the US Patent Office site, with you relative’s name.
The search yielded nothing with Constantine Oden. I tried various
spellings as well. Thinking that perhaps the patent was in another
person’s name, with your relative as an “assistant” or “assignee”, I
searched using “Needle”, “beveled needle” and “hypodermic needle”.
Using those search terms drew greater than 4000hits . Here is the
reurn for “needle” alone!
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&p=1&f=S&l=50&Query=ttl%2Fneedle%0D%0A&d=pall
Searching just with the name “Oden” on the US Patent Office site,
yielded just a “Robert Oden”
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=59&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&s1=oden.INZZ.&p=2&OS=in/oden&RS=IN/oden
Searching “Oden-Constantine” on the same site yielded no results. I
also tried various spellings such as “Odin” and “Odine”.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=0&f=S&l=50&d=PALL&RS=IN%2Foden&Refine=Refine+Search&Query=in%2Foden-constantine
I checked the most likely among the results for “needle” and came up
with needles similar to your description, but NOT with the name of
Constantine Oden:
Click on “Images” at bottom of page to see diagram. This one looks
like the needle of which you speak, but does not include your
relative’s name. It does mention the assignee as Becton Dickinson and
company however.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=19&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1='beveled+needle'&OS="beveled+needle"&RS="beveled+needle"
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=15&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1='beveled+needle'&OS="beveled+needle"&RS="beveled+needle"
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=25&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1='beveled+needle'&OS="beveled+needle"&RS="beveled+needle"
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=31&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1='beveled+needle'&OS="beveled+needle"&RS="beveled+needle"
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=9&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=pall&S1=(beveled+AND+needle)&OS=beveled+and+needle&RS=(beveled+AND+needle)
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=23&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=pall&S1=beveled.TTL.&OS=ttl/beveled&RS=TTL/beveled
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=76&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&s1=(beveled+AND+needle)&p=2&OS=beveled+and+needle&RS=(beveled+AND+needle)
Please keep in mind that the online Patent Office Site only holds
patents since 1970. It is possible your relative’s patent was issued
before 1970. Here is the home page for the United States Patent and
Trademark Office:
http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
Here is the Patent Office Contact page:
http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/feedback.html
Here is the BD site. Click on “History” for a Flash movie on the
history. Non-related to your question, but informative anyway.
http://www.bd.com/aboutbd/
I sincerely wish I could have found your relative’s name listed among
those I found. Perhaps you could write an e-mail/snail mail letter to
them, including any and all details about the needle and Constantine
Oden. The site states that you should get a response from an e-mail
within 7 Federal days. They MAY have older records archived which they
could locate for you. In comparing the dates you have given me for
your relative’s career span, and the history of the beveled needle, it
appears that the beveled needle was in use prior to your relative
setting up practice. Perhaps what he invented was a device for the
needle, or an improved beveled needle. Is there any more information
that can help track down his exact contribution ? Perhaps his patent
date was prior to 1970, and not available online. I did enjoy perusing
all the older needle/syringe/LuerLock devices patents, as they were
the tools of my trade for so many years. (I had totally forgotten
using the single draw needles and all the ways we rigged so we could
use them for multiple draws until I researched your question!)
Regards,
crabcakes
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