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US5203324:
Contoured anatomical mouthpiece
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US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Kinkade, Donald J.; Greeley, CO
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| Assignee: |
Kinkade Family Partnership, Greeley, CO
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| Published / Filed: |
1993-04-20
/ 1991-04-02
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| Application Number: |
US1991000679517
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
B63C 11/18;
Core:
B63C 11/02;
IPC-7:
A61C 5/14;
A61M 16/00;
A62B 9/06;
B63C 11/16;
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Current:
128/201.11;
128/207.14;
128/861;
128/862;
Original:
128/201.11;
128/207.14;
128/861;
128/862;
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128/201.11,861,862,207.14,857,859,200.24,200.26,201.26,201.27,206.29,DIG. 26,911,912
433/006,215,229
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| Abstract: |
A mouthpiece for use in diving or medical equipment, among others made of moldable resilient material having an offset between upper and lower jaw, a bite plane which is tapered with the bite plane formed by wings which have varying thickness to create the taper in which the wing members have substantially vertical surfaces on either side thereof for contacting the lateral surfaces of the user's cuspids and bicuspids and in which the main body portion has upper and lower apron and eminence skirts for avoiding contact with the user's frenum and cuspid eminences and in which the internal wing members have a range in size, at the cuspid, from about 6 to about 12 mm in width, from about 14 to about 40 mm in length and from about 2 mm to about 8 mm in thickness. The greater the offset, the shorter the length of the internal wing members.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Woronoff, David S. ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Burr, Edgar S.; Asher, Kimberly L.
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| Parent Case: |
This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 07/449,560 filed Dec. 12, 1989, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,062,422, which is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 07/283,611 filed Dec. 13, 1988, now abandoned, both by the present inventor. Those applications are incorporated by reference into this application as fully as if they were set forth herein.
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| Designated Country: |
DE FR GB IT
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First Claim:
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I claim:
1. A mouthpiece oriented for an overbite comprising:
- U shaped body member having first and second ends and upper and lower portions;
- the first end formed in a generally oval shape and having an orifice formed therein;
- the second end extending away from the orifice and formed into two leg members, each having an outer end;
- a internal wing member formed on each leg member near the outer end thereof;
- the lower portion of the U shaped member extending outwardly toward the leg members more than the upper portion of the U shaped member to form an offset which reaches to the lower level of the internal wing members;
- the internal wing members having first and second ends;
- said wing members have a taper such that the first end farther from the orifice is smaller than the second end nearer the orifice;
- said wing members having a laterally extending surface bounded on either side thereof by substantially vertical curved walls for contacting the lateral surfaces of the user's cuspids and bicuspids.
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