Medication Bottle for Use with Oral Syringe

Abstract

An oral syringe of the type having a syringe barrel terminating in a syringe neck with a blunt orificed end is combined with a medication bottle provided with a self resealing elastomeric closure designed for admitting the syringe neck into the bottle while maintaining a sufficient liquid tight seal against the syringe neck to allow a dose of medication to be drawn from the bottle in an inverted condition of the bottle without significant leakage. The elastomeric closure may be initially unbroken and rupturable under urging of the orificed end for passing the syringe neck into the bottle, the closure resealing itself upon withdrawal of the syringe neck.

1 . A method for drawing a dose of liquid oral medication from a bottle into an oral syringe comprising the steps of:
 providing an oral syringe of the type having a syringe barrel terminating in a syringe neck with an orificed blunt end;   providing a medication bottle with a self resealing elastomeric closure normally sealing said bottle and adapted to admit said syringe neck into said bottle while maintaining a substantially liquid tight seal between said closure and said neck;   inserting said blunt orificed end of said syringe neck through said elastomeric closure into said bottle;   inverting said bottle and said syringe such that said orificed end is immersed in liquid medication contained in said bottle;   drawing a dose of said medication into said syringe barrel; and   withdrawing said syringe neck to allow self resealing of said elastomeric closure.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1  wherein said closure is initially unbroken and further comprising the step of urging said orificed end against said closure with sufficient force for breaking said closure and passing said orificed end therethrough and into said bottle. 
     
     
         3 . In combination, an oral syringe having a syringe barrel terminating in a syringe neck with a blunt orificed end and a medication bottle having a self resealing elastomeric closure, said closure being sized, dimensioned and configured for admitting said orificed end into said bottle while maintaining a substantially liquid tight seal with said syringe neck. 
     
     
         4 . The combination of  claim 3  wherein said closure is initially unbroken and is rupturable under urging of said orificed end thereagainst for breaking said closure and passing said orificed end through said closure and into said bottle. 
     
     
         5 . The combination of  claim 3  said closure having a septum of elastomeric material, said septum having a generally depressed dished portion including an area of minimum thickness, said dished portion increasing in thickness radially from a minimum thickness to a much thicker elastomeric material encompassing said area of minimum thickness, said depressed portion and said area of minimum thickness being shaped and configured to elastically distend for passing said blunt orificed end of said syringe neck through a tear in said area of minimum thickness, said septum self reclosing by returning opposite edges of said tear to a substantially contiguous closed condition after withdrawal of said syringe neck from said septum. 
     
     
         6 . In a plug for installation in the neck of a medication bottle, said plug having a shell adapted to make retentive sealing engagement with said neck and having a central hole through said shell of reduced diameter relative to said bottle neck, the improvement comprising a self resealing elastomeric closure normally sealing said bottle and adapted to rupture to the blunt ended orificed neck of an oral syringe into said bottle while maintaining a substantially liquid tight seal between said closure and said neck, said elastomeric closure being adapted to self reseal to a substantially liquid tight condition following withdrawal of said neck from said closure. 
     
     
         7 . The improvement of  claim 6  said closure having a septum of elastomeric material, said septum having a generally depressed dished portion including an area of minimum thickness, said dished portion increasing in thickness radially from a minimum thickness to a much thicker elastomeric material encompassing said area of minimum thickness, said depressed portion and said area of minimum thickness being shaped and configured to elastically distend for passing said blunt orificed end of said syringe neck through a tear in said area of minimum thickness, said septum self reclosing by returning opposite edges of said tear to a substantially contiguous closed condition after withdrawal of said syringe neck from said septum.