Container having injection needle-detaching means

Claim 1

A container having an injection needle detaching means for containing used injection needles comprising: a closed container for containing injection needles, and a needle-detaching means for detaching a slip type injection needle from a syringe, said needle-detaching means comprising a first opening provided in a wall of said container for inserting said needle attached to said syringe, a second opening extending laterally from said first opening, and a sliding portion provided on each of both sides of said second opening, said first opening having a size larger than the largest part of said needle, said second opening having a width larger than the diameter of the nozzle of said syringe and smaller than the diameter of the hub of said needle, each of said sliding portion having a side wall defining said second opening, each of said side walls having, at the entrance of the second opening from said first opening, a thickness smaller than a distance between the root of the nozzle of said syringe and the bottom end of the hub of said needle when the needle is being attached to said syringe, each of said side walls being made gradually thicker toward the closed end of said second opening, the maximum thickness of each side wall being larger than said distance, the surface of said sliding portion on the rear side of said wall of said container, on which the bottom surface of the hub slides, forms a surface inclined both in the direction of the first opening and in the direction of the second opening.