Dental valve tailpiece
AssigneeStoma Ventures, LLC
InventorCharles Thomas
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Abstract
A tailpiece for a dental valve device is disclosed which has a body having a valve receiving end, a hose receiving end, and an intermediate elbow portion between the valve receiving end and the hose receiving end. A tailpiece for a dental valve device is also disclosed which has a body having a valve receiving end, a hose receiving end, an intermediate elbow portion between the valve receiving end and the hose receiving end, a lumen formed in the body between the valve receiving end and the hose receiving end, and a check valve positioned in the lumen.
Claims20
A tailpiece for a dental valve device, the tailpiece comprising:
- a body having a valve receiving end having a circular collar having a length extending from a first end of the collar closer to the body to a second free end of the collar, a hose receiving end having an integral circular stop, an intermediate elbow portion between the valve receiving end and the hose receiving end, a first arm portion between the valve receiving end and the intermediate elbow portion, a second arm portion between the intermediate elbow portion and the hose receiving end, a first reinforcing rib on the body extending along the body from the first end of the collar closer to the body to the integral circular stop, and a second reinforcing rib on the circular collar separate from the first reinforcing rib on the body with the second reinforcing rib extending entirely along the length of the circular collar;
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- a lumen formed in the body between the valve receiving end and the hose receiving end.
A tailpiece for a dental valve device, the tailpiece comprising:
- a body having a valve receiving end having a circular collar having a length extending from a first end of the collar closer to the body to a second free end of the collar, a hose receiving end having an integral circular stop, an intermediate elbow portion between the valve receiving end and the hose receiving end, a first arm portion between the valve receiving end and the intermediate elbow portion, a second arm portion between the intermediate elbow portion and the hose receiving end, a first reinforcing rib on the body extending along the body from the first end of the collar closer to the body to the integral circular stop, and a second reinforcing rib on the circular collar separate from the first reinforcing rib on the body with the second reinforcing rib extending entirely along the length of the circular collar, the first reinforcing rib on the body being offset from the second reinforcing rib on the circular collar;
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- a lumen formed in the body between the valve receiving end and the hose receiving end.
A tailpiece for a dental valve device, the tailpiece comprising:
- a body having a valve receiving end having a circular collar having a length extending from a first end closer to the body to a second free end, a hose receiving end having an integral circular stop, an intermediate elbow portion between the valve receiving end and the hose receiving end, a first arm portion between the valve receiving end and the intermediate elbow portion, a second arm portion between the hose receiving end and the intermediate elbow portion, a first reinforcing rib between the first end of the collar closer to the body and the integral circular stop of the hose receiving end along the first arm portion and the second arm portion and angled at the intermediate elbow portion, a second reinforcing rib on the circular collar separate from the first reinforcing rib on the body with the second reinforcing rib extending entirely along the length of the circular collar, and a third reinforcing rib on the circular collar separate from the first reinforcing rib on the body and the second reinforcing rib on the circular collar with the third reinforcing rib extending entirely along the length of the circular collar, the first reinforcing rib being offset from the second reinforcing rib;
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- a lumen formed in the body between the valve receiving end and the hose receiving end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.