IP Library Patent Application 14000741
Patent Application
App. No. 14/000,741

DISPOSABLE MEDICAL DRILL GUIDE

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App. No.
14/000,741
Abstract

A drill guide which is disposable and may be packaged in a kit with varying drill guides and sleeve guides is disclosed. Said device may have medical waste collection indentations, regions, or wells, whereby medical waste is removed and disposed of along with said device.

Claims (33)

1 . A medical waste collection device comprising:

a head

a handle;

a drill guide in said head;

at least one well collection along said handle; and,

wherein medical waste may collect in said well.

2 . The device of claim 1 wherein said drill guide further comprises a sleeve.

3 . The device of claim 2 wherein said sleeve is one of fixed and press fit.

4 . The device of claim 2 wherein said sleeve is changeable.

5 . The device of claim 2 wherein said sleeve is metallic.

6 . The device of claim 1 wherein said drill is a burr or blade.

7 . A medical waste collection device comprising:

a head

a handle;

a drill guide in said head;

a plurality of wells along said handle; and,

wherein medical waste may collect in said wells.

8 . The device of claim 7 wherein said drill guide further comprises a sleeve.

9 . The device of claim 8 wherein said sleeve is metallic.

10 . A medical waste collection method, the method comprising:

while using a drill guide;

moving medical waste of the glove of a user into one or more wells formed in the handle of the medical drill guide.

11 . The method of claim 10 wherein said medical instrument handle is disposable and can be disposed of with said medical waste attached thereto.

12 . A method of non-slip medical instrument handle, the method comprising:

grasping a medical instrument handle with a hand containing medical waste;

moving medical waste off the hand into wells within the handle of the medical instrument; and,

having a silhouette of said handle to grasp which has less medical waste on it than it would have if the instrument handle did not have said wells and said medical waste was coating said handle.

13 . A drill guide kit comprising:

at least one disposable drill guide with a head, a handle and a drill guide in said head; and

one or more sleeves, each with a drill sleeve guide, that press fit into said drill guide.

14 . The device of claim 13 wherein said drill sleeve guides are one of varying diameters.

15 . The device of claim 13 wherein the amount of collateral waste material is reduced by moving waste into said wells and reducing the amount of wiping material used and disposed of.

16 . The device of claim 13 , wherein at least one sleeve is metallic.

Assignments (3)
RELEASE OF SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Oct 1, 2018
From: MB FINANCIAL BANK, N.A.
To: ECA MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS
Reel/Frame 047171/0240 →
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jun 23, 2016
From: ECA MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS
To: MB FINANCIAL BANK, N.A.
Reel/Frame 039140/0065 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 5, 2015
From: NINO, JOHN; SLOMSKI, DOUGLAS
To: ECA MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS
Reel/Frame 036974/0757 →