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US 6,295,982 B1Granted
Apparatus for and methods of administering volatile substances into an inhalation flow path
OwnerFred Dewitt Reed, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A method of introducing a vapor (41) of a volatile substance into an inhalation flow path (24, 25) of a respiratory organ (22, 23), the method comprising the steps of providing a carrier (31, 51, 51′) having a volatile substance and engaging the carrier (31, 51, 51′) at the inhalation flow path (24, 25) of the respiratory organ (22, 23).
Claims17
A method of introducing a vapor of at least one volatile substance into an inhalation flow path of a respiratory organ, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing a carrier conformable to a surface of skin;
- providing the carrier with at least one volatile substance;
- providing a barrier coupled to a surface of the carrier, the barrier being substantially impermeable to the one or more volatile substances carried by the carrier;
- and
- engaging the carrier to the surface of skin proximate an inhalation flow path of a respiratory organ with the barrier adapted to be interposed between the carrier and the skin to prevent the one or more volatile substances from contacting the skin.
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A vehicle for introducing a vapor of one at least one volatile substance into an inhalation flow path of a respiratory organ, the vehicle comprising:
- a carrier conformable to a surface of skin;
- at least one volatile substance carried by the carrier;
- a barrier coupled to a surface of the carrier, the barrier being substantially impermeable to the at least one volatile substances carried by the carrier;
- and
- means for engaging the carrier is a surface of skin proximate an inhalation flow path of the respiratory organ with the barrier adapted to be interposed between the carrier and the surface of skin to prevent the at least one volatile substances from contacting the skin.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.