Leroy D Geist from Aurora, CO, age 64

Apparatus For Covering A Used Syringe Needle
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US Patent:

6413243, Jul 2, 2002
Filed:

Feb 21, 2000
Appl. No.:

09/510122
Inventors:

Leroy D. Geist - Parker CO
Assignee:

Vital Signs, Inc. - Totawa NJ
International Classification:

A61M 532
US Classification:

604192, 604110, 604263
Abstract:

Apparatus for covering a used hypodermic syringe needle including a base, a pair of covers mounted movably to the base and at least one latching member mounted on the base, the covers are for being moved into a closed position covering the used syringe needle, the covers are provided with engaging members making the movement of each cover dependent on the movement of the other cover, and the latching member is for engaging the engaging members to lock both covers in the closed position. In the preferred embodiment a pair of latching members are mounted on the base and each latching member is for independently engaging the engaging members to cause either or both of the latching members to lock both of the covers in the closed position.

Apparatus For Preventing Used Hypodermic Needle Sticks
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US Patent:

6488666, Dec 3, 2002
Filed:

Jul 26, 2000
Appl. No.:

09/625888
Inventors:

Leroy D. Geist - Parker CO
Assignee:

Vital Signs, Inc. - Totawa NJ
International Classification:

A61M 500
US Classification:

604263, 604192, 604264
Abstract:

Apparatus for locking or latching a used hypodermic needle in a needle sheath; an adapter for locking to a needle sheath to entrap a hypodermic needle between the adapter and a needle sheath, a needle sheath for receiving a used hypodermic needle, and the combination of the adapter and the needle sheath. A kit including a syringe barrel, a syringe needle, an adapter and a needle sheath. Combination syringe needle and cantilever latching apparatus, such combination in further combination with a needle sheath and a further kit including such combinations and a syringe barrel.

Carbon Dioxide Indicating Apparatus, Particularly, Disk-Like Carbon Dioxide Indicating Apparatus
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US Patent:

6929008, Aug 16, 2005
Filed:

Oct 8, 2002
Appl. No.:

10/266294
Inventors:

Leroy D. Geist - Parker CO, US
Assignee:

Vital Signs, Inc. - Totawa NJ
International Classification:

A62B009/00
US Classification:

12820523, 12820222, 12820227, 12820714
Abstract:

Carbon dioxide indicator for receiving gas containing carbon dioxide and for providing a visible indication of the presence of carbon dioxide in the gas, the indicator includes a connector for removably connecting the indicator to a source of gas containing carbon dioxide and which connector is for communicating at least a portion of such gas to the indicator. The carbon dioxide indicator may be a disk indicator and the connector may be a male luer or a locking male luer.

Carbon Dioxide Indicating Apparatus, Particularly, Disk-Like Carbon Dioxide Indicating Apparatus
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US Patent:

7246622, Jul 24, 2007
Filed:

Aug 26, 2004
Appl. No.:

10/926559
Inventors:

Leroy D. Geist - Parker CO, US
Assignee:

Vital Signs, Inc. - Totowa NJ
International Classification:

A62B 9/00
US Classification:

12820523, 12820222, 12820227, 12820714
Abstract:

Carbon dioxide indicator for receiving gas containing carbon dioxide and for providing a visible indication of the presence of carbon dioxide in the gas, the indicator includes a connector for removably connecting the indicator to a source of gas containing carbon dioxide and which connector is for communicating at least a portion of such gas to the indicator. The carbon dioxide indicator may be a disk indicator and the connector may be a male luer or a locking male luer. The carbon dioxide indicator may include removable ultraviolet radiation shielding permitting the carbon dioxide indicator to be preassembled to a patient's respiratory or breathing circuits or to a resuscitator.

Mask, Mask Shell And Seal With Improved Mounting, Mask Seal, Method Of Mask Manufacture And Mask With Reduced Exhalation Noise
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US Patent:

7353827, Apr 8, 2008
Filed:

Sep 1, 2004
Appl. No.:

10/932849
Inventors:

Leroy D. Geist - Parker CO, US
Assignee:

Vitol Signs, Inc. - Totowa NJ
International Classification:

A62B 18/08
A62B 18/02
US Classification:

12820711, 12820621, 12820624
Abstract:

Mask seal having an embedded mounting member for engaging a mounting member on a mask shell to mount the seal and shell together. Headstrap retention bracket having an indentation for wedgedly engaging a mask shell cylinder to removably mount headstraps to the shell, the indentation circumscribed by an outward wall. Triangular mask seal of styrene-ethylene butylene-styrene copolymer modified with mineral oil.

Laryngoscope Blade
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US Patent:

7611459, Nov 3, 2009
Filed:

Mar 22, 2007
Appl. No.:

11/726689
Inventors:

Leroy D. Geist - Parker CO, US
Leroy D. Jutte - Highlands Ranch CO, US
Assignee:

Vital Signs, Inc. - Totowa NJ
International Classification:

A61B 1/267
US Classification:

600199
Abstract:

A laryngoscope blade comprising a blade portion, a base portion and an optic light pipe, the blade portion including a proximal end and a distal end provided with an optic window, the base portion including two base halves mounted to each other and to the proximal end of the blade portion, one of the base halves providing a resilient cantilever latch pin and the other of the base halves providing a rigid hook, the light pipe including a proximal end mounted between the two base halves and a distal end extending through the optic window.