Single use containers designed to store and dispense liquid substances having a wide variation in viscosities. The container includes a container body that defines a storage compartment for storing the liquid substance and is provided with a neck including a seal positioned in the neck to seal a liquid substance in the storage compartment during storage. The container also includes a cap defining a recess and being adapted for engaging the neck and including structure for piercing the seal and a channel which passes through the structure for piercing the seal to the recess. An applicator is located in the recess such that the applicator and recess together define a chamber between an end of the channel and the applicator to allow liquid to flow from said channel into said chamber.

A single-piece, injection molded, hand-held liquid dispensing applicator. The single-piece applicator comprising a source of fluid and a frangible applicator tip attached to the fluid source. When the frangible applicator tip is broken, the fluid flows from the source to an absorbent member attached to the applicator tip to spread the liquid on a surface. The frangible tip may comprise a support element permanently connected to the fluid source, a relatively rigid tongue element, and a frangible region therebetween. The tongue element may comprise ribs for reinforcement. The frangible tip may comprise a semi-permeable or non-permeable cover to control the speed and direction of the dispersion of the fluid. The dispensing applicator may be used in various medical applications.

An alcohol pad system, alcohol pad, and method for cleaning a medicine vial include a pad member treated with alcohol and a projection member also treated with alcohol, disposed upon the pad member, with the projection member extending upwardly from the pad member, and the pad member and projection member are adapted to clean, or sanitize, the top of a medicine vial which includes a metal portion and a rubber insert portion disposed within the metal portion of the top of the medicine vial.

A single-piece, injection molded, hand-held liquid dispensing applicator. The single-piece applicator comprising a source of fluid and a frangible applicator tip attached to the fluid source. When the frangible applicator tip is broken, the fluid flows from the source to an absorbent member attached to the applicator tip to spread the liquid on a surface. The frangible tip may comprise a support element permanently connected to the fluid source, a relatively rigid tongue element, and a frangible region therebetween. The tongue element may comprise ribs for reinforcement. The frangible tip may comprise a semi-permeable or non-permeable cover to control the speed and direction of the dispersion of the fluid. The dispensing applicator may be used in various medical applications.

An internally supplied applicator for applying a fluid substance, in particular a cosmetic or pharmaceutical product, having a solid finger support with preferably injection molded fingers and at least one supply conduit for conveying the substance from the side of the finger support oriented away from the fingers to the side of the finger support that is equipped with the fingers; the side of the finger support oriented away from the fingers is adjoined by a (crushable) foil packet that contains a reservoir of the substance that is to be applied so that pressing on the foil packet causes a volume of the substance, which is to be applied, to be dispensed through the supply conduit.

A drawing material container cartridge according to one embodiment includes a cartridge body including a tubular portion that accommodates a drawing material, and being configured to be detachably mounted in a container body by being inserted into the container body along an axial direction that is a direction in which an axis of the tubular portion extends; and a cartridge cap that is mounted on the cartridge body by inserting the tubular portion along the axial direction. The cartridge body includes a first locking portion that locks to the container body in the axial direction when the cartridge body is mounted in the container body. The cartridge cap includes a second locking portion that locks to the first locking portion in the axial direction when the cartridge cap is mounted on the cartridge body.

A drawing material container cartridge according to one embodiment includes a cartridge body including a tubular portion that accommodates a drawing material, and being configured to be detachably mounted in a container body by being inserted into the container body along an axial direction that is a direction in which an axis of the tubular portion extends; and a cartridge cap that is mounted on the cartridge body by inserting the tubular portion along the axial direction. The cartridge body includes a first locking portion that locks to the container body in the axial direction when the cartridge body is mounted in the container body. The cartridge cap includes a second locking portion that locks to the first locking portion in the axial direction when the cartridge cap is mounted on the cartridge body.

A skin preparation device including a body member, a fluid retention member operatively connected to a distal end of the body member, and a tip extending radially from an outer surface of the fluid retention member.

A writing instrument, having a writing tip and a writing part, which can receive a writing medium reservoir for the writing instrument, and having a removal aid which is releasably connected to the writing part for assisting the removal of a writing medium reservoir, which can be arranged or is arranged in the writing part, which removal aid having a receiving space for a connectable portion of the writing medium reservoir and one or more connecting parts for releasably connecting the removal aid to the connectable portion of the writing medium reservoir. The or each connecting part is configured such that, by the connecting part bearing against the connectable portion of the writing medium reservoir, the removal aid can be connected or is connected thereto by a releasable frictional connection.

A writing instrument, having a writing tip and a writing part, which can receive a writing medium reservoir for the writing instrument, and having a removal aid which is releasably connected to the writing part for assisting the removal of a writing medium reservoir, which can be arranged or is arranged in the writing part, which removal aid having a receiving space for a connectable portion of the writing medium reservoir and one or more connecting parts for releasably connecting the removal aid to the connectable portion of the writing medium reservoir. The or each connecting part is configured such that, by the connecting part bearing against the connectable portion of the writing medium reservoir, the removal aid can be connected or is connected thereto by a releasable frictional connection.