Parenteral solution equipment and method

Claim 1

APPARATUS FOR THE COLLECTION, STORAGE AND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN BLOOD COMPRISING A STERILE, COLLAPSIBLE CONTAINER CONSTRUCTED OF A FLEXIBLE, TRANSLUCENT, HEAT-SEALABLE MATERIAL AND WHEN LIQUID-FILLED ASSUMING GENERALLY THE SHAPE OF A RECTANGULAR SOLID, THE END FACES OF SAID CONTAINER BEING EQUIPPED WITH DIAGONAL RIBS DEFINING THE UNION OF SHEETS OF SAID MATERIAL, ONE OF SAID RIBS AT ONE END OF SAID CONTAINER BEING INTERRUPTED, AN ELONGATED PLASTIC TUBE MOUNTED IN THE INTERRUPTED PORTION WITH ITS OUTER WALL IN FLUID TIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID CONTAINER, SAID TUBE HAVING EXTENSIONS BOTH INWARDLY AND OUTWARDLY OF SAID CONTAINER OF RELATIVELY FLEXIBLE NATURE, THE INWARD EXTENSION REMOVABLY SUPPORTING VALVE MEANS, MEANS ADAPTING THE OUTWARD EXTENSION FOR USE IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF BLOOD, A SECOND ELONGATED PLASTIC TUBE COMMUNICATING WITH SAID CONTAINER AND EXTENDING PRIMARILY OUTWARDLY, SAID SECOND TUBE ADAPTED FOR THE COLLECTION OF BLOOD, AND A COLLAPSIBLE INELASTIC-WALLED TUBULAR ELEMENT, SAID CONTAINER POSITIONED WITHIN SAID TUBULAR ELEMENT SO THAT THE CONTAINER AND TUBULAR ELEMENT MAY BE SIMULTANEOUSLY COLLAPSED WHEN SAID CONTAINER IS SUBSTANTIALLY EMPTY AND SAID INELASTIC ELEMENT WILL BE EFFECTIVE TO LIMIT THE INCREASE IN THE INTERNAL VOLUME OF THE CONTAINER WHEN SAID CONTAINER IS LIQUID-FILLED.