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US5488947:
Sleep aid device
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Frankel, Henry; Prairie Village, KS 66208
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1996-02-06
/ 1994-08-30
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| Application Number: |
US1994000298112
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A61M 16/04;
A62B 9/00;
A62B 9/06;
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IPC-7:
A62B 19/00;
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| ECLA Code: |
A61M16/04M; A62B9/00A; A62B9/06; K61M16/04M1B;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
128/206.22;
128/201.26;
128/207.14;
Original:
128/206.22;
128/207.14;
128/201.26;
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| Field of Search: |
128/201.26,201.27,201.28,206.29,207.14,207.16,911,206.22
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| Priority Number: |
| 1994-08-30 |
US1994000298112 |
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| Abstract: |
A sleep aid device comprises a mouthpiece assembly with bit elements extending therefrom. An air assembly extends from the mouthpiece assembly and includes a humidification chamber therein. The humidification chamber comprises a plurality of cones therein for collecting moisture thereon and transfer to air streams passing therethrough. The humidified air diminishes parchment of the lips and throat. The bit elements preclude mouth closure during sleep so as to preclude the sensation of suffocation experienced upon mouth closure and also allows for user swallowing without the resulting discomfort to damaged nasal passages.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Chase & Yakimo ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Burr, Edgar S.; Srivastava, V.
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| Designated Country: |
AU EP
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First Claim:
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Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is as follows:
1. An inhalation aid device comprising:
- a mouthpiece comprising:
- a plate having a surface adapted to lie adjacent a front surface of upper and lower dental arches of a wearer;
- a poet extending from each of first and second lateral ends of said plate surface, said posts displacing the upper and lower dental arches of the wearer;
- a central aperture in said plate;
- an air treatment assembly extending from a surface of said plate and comprising:
- a housing having a first chamber at a first housing end, said first chamber in communication with said central aperture;
- a port at a free second end of said housing, said port longitudinally displaced from said first housing end and generally in line with said central aperture;
- a first channel within said housing, said first channel having a first end in communication with said first chamber and a second end presenting said port and generally in line with said central aperture and said port;
- a plurality of protuberances extending from an interior surface of said first channel, each protuberance presenting a free end adjacent an imaginary central axis longitudinally passing through said first channel, said protuberances spaced along a length of said first channel for, collecting moisture thereon from exhaled air of a wearer passing through said channel for transfer to inhaled air drawn through said port and said channel, the inhaled air discharged through said plate central aperture and between the displaced dental arches.
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