Combined infant pacifier and thermometer
OwnerMichel Blouin, Leo Mercierinventors
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Abstract
A mouth thermometer combined with a pacifier in the form of a nipple to take the temperature of a young child or baby in the mouth thereof, instead of in the rectum, as commonly done so far, while averting the drawbacks inherent to the use of the conventional thermometer for so doing. The combination thermometer including a mercury thermometer tube defining a mercury bulb portion and a temperature display portion, a shield surrounding the bulb portion, a flexible nipple mouth-piece surrounding the shield and the bulb portion therein, and a stop ring integrally formed with the nipple mouth-piece and retained at the junction of the thermometer tube portions by an annular bulge of the shield.
Claims4
A combined pacifier and mouth thermometer device comprising a liquid thermometer tube including a liquid bulb portion having an inner open end and an outer closed end, a temperature display portion joined to the inner open end of the liquid bulb portion along said thermometer tube, a flexible nipple mouth-piece freely surrounding the outer end of said liquid bulb portion and having apertures therethrough placing the bulb portion in open commumication with the exterior of the mouth-piece, and a stop ring secured over said tube at the junction between said bulb and said temperature display portions.
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