US1393209A - Device for administering medicine - Google Patents

Description

W. I. EVANS.

DEVICE FOR ADMINISTERING MEDICINE.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 2, I920.

Patented Oct. 11, 1921.

INVENTOR ATTORNEY.

7171314155 J. EVANS, 9F IIEEV YORK, N. 'Y.

DEVICE FOR ADFVIIIQ ISTEPJIJG- IJZEDICINE.

Application filed February 2, 1920.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Wrens J. Evans, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, county of New York, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Administering lifledicine, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to devices tor administering medicine. Th ob ect of the invention is to provide such a device, particularly for administering medicine to club dren or physically or metally incompetent adults. whereby the usual ordeal connected therewith is avoided.

To these ends the invention comprises a device preferably in the form of a nozzle or mouthpiece having a wide relatively than and to act as a tongue depressor, said end being curved slightly upwardly, and the tip having a slit-like discharge opening therein. Other objects and features oi novelty w ll be apparent from the description taken in connection with the drawings in which- Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a nozzle or mouthpiece constructed in accordance with the present invention, being shown as attached to a force syringe of the plunger type, and

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of a nozzle connected to a flexible rubber bulb,

Referring to the drawings the device comprises a mouthpiece 10, the main portion of which is cylindrical, one end being adapted for connection to a syringe or similar device. As shown, this end is internally threaded so that the mouthpiece may be screwed on to the nipple 11 ot' the force syringe 12 or 12.

The opposite or nozzle end of the mouthpiece is flattened out and bent downwardly to provide a wide thin part 13 adapted to act as a tongue depressor. Preferably thet1p end of this depressor part is curved slightly upwardly as indicated at 14 and the tip is formed with a thin and relatively wide discharge opening 15 whichmay bedefined as a perfectly straight slit-like opening or ontice. It will. be observed that the medicine discharged through said opening will be in the form of a film or spray, thus avoiding violent contact of the medicine with the sensitive structures of the throat with the result that there will. be no strangulation when medicine is administered with my de- Specifieation of Letter." l-atent.

Patented Get. 11, 1 .92551.

Serial No. 355,621.

vice. Furthermore as the tip end is bent slightly upwardly the opening therein will not be closed by the overlapping tissues of the tongue when firm pressure is made thereon. Moreover the film or spray will be dis charged from the opening in a slightly upwardly inclined direction instead or" directly into the throat as would occur if the end were straight and not bent up.

Although a specific embodiment oi the invention has been described in detail, it is not thus limited but includes modifications and changes which come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

l. A device for administering medicine comprising a tube having a wide thin discharge end bent away from the axis of the tube to act as a tongue depressor, said end. being curved slightly backward toward said axis at its tip, whereby the discharge opening therein will not be closed by the tissues of the tongue, and the medicine will be dis charged slightly upwardly in the mouth avoiding spraying the same directly into the threat.

2. A device for administering medicine comprising a tube having a wide thin discharge end bent to U-shape to act as a tongue depressor, the discharge opening in the tip of said end being of slit-lilre shape, whereby the medicine will be discharged away from the tongue as a film or spray.

3. A device for spraying the throat comprising a tube terminating with a flattened portion bent away from the axis thereof and a nozzle formed out of the flattened portion and bent toward the said axis, whereby said flattened portion will hold the patients tongue away from the nozzle so as not to obstruct the tree flow of the medicine.

41-. A device for spraying the throat comprising a tube with a passage of circular cross section and adapted to be attached to asyringe and terminating with a portion of flattened cross section, said portion being bent away from the axis of the tube, a nozzle formed out of the tip of said portion and bent toward said axis, the outlet opening or" said nozzle being considerably'wider and thinner than that of said passage, whereby the pa tients tongue when depressed by said portion Will be prevented from obstructing the spray emanating in a direction away from the tongue from said outlet opening.

5. A device for administering medicine constructed from a tube flattened at one end to provide a discharge opening in the form of a narrow slit, said flattened end being bent away from the of said tube and its tip with the narrow slit bent back toward said axis whereby the course of a spray einanatl0 ing from said narrow slit will proceed in the direction given by said slit, unobstructed by the bulging of an object compressed by the said flattened end.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature. 15

WILLIS J. EVANS.

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