Orthotropic and orthognathic oral device and method
AssigneeBreathe Baby Products Inc.
InventorNafys Samandari
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Abstract
A hygienic oral feed-bottle nipple includes an opening skirt to expand and rotate in the buccal vestibule. As the child completes the suckling cycle, the mouth portion is distorted, the skirt extended to provide cleaning, stimulation, and a bumper to deny extensive pronation. The flanges and skirt may be covered with a textured surface, or bristles, that provide mechanical brushing of oral surfaces. Hard pads set along a superior surface of the nipple are compressed against the maxilla palate and provide upwards and/or lateral force to encourage lateral expansion of the palate. The nipple may be bifurcated into left and right opposing lobes which can split laterally to enhance lateral force on maxilla.
Claims21
A bottle-feed nipple device, comprising:
- a cap, comprising a cap face;
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- a mouth portion extending from the cap, wherein a direction from the cap face to the mouth portion represents a first direction, the mouth portion comprising:
- a neck extending in the first direction from the cap face into a skirt comprising a superior skirt and an inferior skirt;
- the superior skirt extending from the cap face in the first direction at a first side of the bottle-feed nipple device, the superior skirt comprising a bumper edge along a first end of the superior skirt, wherein the first end of the superior skirt is opposite the cap face in the first direction;
- the inferior skirt extending from the cap face in the first direction at a second side of the bottle-feed nipple device, wherein the second side is opposite the first side;
- a nipple bulb extending in the first direction between the superior skirt and the inferior skirt, the nipple bulb comprising a right pad, a left pad, a pore, a superior cleft between the right pad and the left pad, and a tongue guide formed along an outer surface of an inferior side;
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- a collar connecting the nipple bulb to the superior skirt and the inferior skirt,
- wherein the mouth portion forms a resting shape when at rest,
- wherein when the mouth portion is in the resting shape, the superior skirt forms a first angle with respect to the first direction and the inferior skirt forms a second angle with respect to the first direction,
- wherein when a compression is applied to the nipple, the collar or the neck, the mouth portion has a compressed form,
- wherein when then mouth portion is in the compressed form the superior skirt forms a third angle with respect to the first direction and the inferior skirt forms a fourth angle with respect to the first direction,
- wherein the third angle is greater than the first angle, and
- wherein the fourth angle is greater than the second angle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.