Mouth guard with breathing and drinking aperture
AssigneeBattle-Abc, LLC.
InventorsMichael Evans, Christopher W. Circo, Jeffrey M. Evans
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Abstract
A mouth guard includes a pair of spaced-apart molar receiving members with an inner wall extending therebetween. The inner wall is configured for insertion between a user's lips and teeth. An outer wall is configured to confront an exterior surface of the user's lips. A conduit extends between the inner and outer walls and includes a passage formed therethrough. The passage extends through the inner wall between the molar receiving members and extends through the outer wall whereby a user may breathe or drink through the passage.
Claims10
A mouth guard comprising:
- a pair of spaced-apart molar receiving members having opposite upper and lower biting surfaces;
- forward end portions of the molar receiving members being positioned in a spaced-apart relationship with one another, defining a fluid gap;
- an outer wall having opposing forward and rearward surfaces, the rearward surface of the outer wall being shaped to confront an exterior surface of a user's lips;
- an inner wall operatively coupled to the molar receiving members, having a rearward surface shaped to confront forward surfaces of the user's teeth;
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- a conduit extending between the inner and outer walls such that the inner wall is longitudinally separated from the outer wall by a gap defined by a length of the conduit;
- the conduit having at least one open passage that extends through opposite end portions of the conduit;
- the fluid gap having a width, along with length of the fluid gap, that is at least as wide as a width of the open passage such that fluid may flow along a linear pathway, from the open end portion of the conduit passage, through the fluid gap.
A method for passing fluid through a mouth guard, the method comprising:
- positioning a mouth guard within a user's mouth such that:
- a pair of spaced-apart molar receiving members of the mouth guard are disposed between opposing molars in a user's mouth;
- opposite upper and lower biting surfaces of the molar receiving members confronting the opposing molars;
- forward end portions of the molar receiving members being positioned in a spaced-apart relationship with one another, defining a fluid gap;
- an outer wall of the mouth guard is positioned so that a rearward surface of the outer wall confronts an exterior surface of the user's lips;
- an inner wall of the mouth guard, operatively coupled to the molar receiving members, positioned so that a rearward surface of the inner wall confronts forward surfaces of the user's teeth;
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- a conduit of the mouth guard extends between the inner and outer walls of the mouth guard such that the inner wall is longitudinally spaced from the outer wall by a gap defined by a length of the conduit extending between the forward inner wall portion and outer wall;
- the fluid gap having a width, along an entire length of the fluid gap, that is as wide as or wider than a width of a rearward opening of at least one conduit passage that extends through opposite end portions of the mouth guard conduit;
- directing fluid through the open conduit passage and into the user's mouth such that the fluid flows along a linear pathway from the rearward opening of the conduit passage, through the fluid gap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.