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US4169473:
Anti-snoring and anti-bruxism device
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Samelson, Charles F.; Chicago, IL 60637
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1979-10-02
/ 1978-03-03
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| Application Number: |
US1978000883270
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A61F 5/56;
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IPC-7:
A61F 5/56;
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| ECLA Code: |
A61F5/56B; K61F5/56A;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
128/848;
128/857;
128/860;
128/861;
Original:
128/136;
128/132.R;
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| Field of Search: |
128/136,137,138 R,132 R,208,147,15
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| Priority Number: |
| 1978-03-03 |
US1978000883270 |
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| Abstract: |
A device is provided for positioning within the mouth of a user for preventing snoring and nocturnal tooth grinding. The device is an integrally molded body providing an externally located lip-engaging member and internally located parts to be positioned within the user's mouth. The internal portion of the device provides dental engaging arches and a rearwardly-opening central socket for cooperating with the forward portion of the user's tongue in a manner to draw the tongue forwardly so as to increase the unobstructed dimension of the nasal breathing passage. When operatively positioned within the mouth, at least one set of the user's upper or lower dental arches will enter into a channel provided by the device. The device substantially eliminates oral breathing. The tongue will be held in the socket by a negative pressure developed in the socket. When the tongue is held, it draws the body of the tongue forewardly of its usual restive position behind the lower teeth and adjacent the soft palate, the uvula and the posterior pharyngeal wall, thereby increasing the dimension of the air flow passage through the naso-pharynx to facilitate nasal breathing. The device's engagement with at least one of the user's dental arches operates to eliminate nocturnal tooth-grinding.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Lettvin, Norman ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Recla, Henry J.;
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| INPADOC Legal Status: |
None
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First Claim:
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What is claimed and desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States is:
1. An anti-snoring and anti-bruxism device comprising, in combination:
- imperforate air flow preventing means of a size and shape to be positioned outwardly of and in overlying relation to a user's lips, for preventing the flow of air through the mouth of a user, and tongue engageable means of a size and shape to be removably positioned in the mouth and when so positioned to hold said imperforate means in operative position overlying the user's lips, said tongue engaging means including an elongated socket means connected to the imperforate air flow preventing means, the socket means having a forward closed end and a rearward open end, the closed end connecting to the air flow preventing means centrally thereof and the open end being of a size, shape and location for receiving a portion of the tongue of a user thereinto to effect an airtight seal therewith when air has been sucked from the socket means past the tongue, such that negative pressure, created by the suction, will serve to hold the portion of the tongue in the socket, whereby the tongue is then held forwardly of its usual resting position behind the lower teeth, thereby bringing the remainder of the body of the tongue forward from its normal proximity to the soft palate, the uvula and the posterior pharyngeal wall, to form and maintain an airway of increased size through the naso-pharynx and the oro-pharynx that prevents snoring.
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