Teat unit
AssigneeMedela Holding AG
InventorsRené Fischer, Etienne Furrer, Bernhard Emmenegger
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Abstract
A teat unit has a teat with a suction opening, a support body, and a securing part for securing the teat unit on a drinking vessel. The securing part and the support body are fixedly connected to each other indirectly or directly, and they cannot be detached from each other without being destroyed. The support body has a surface with recesses, which are covered by the teat. The teat is overmoulded over the support body, wherein the teat covers the recesses. This teat unit permits a sucking action that is as natural as possible. It is of a simple construction and can be produced inexpensively, which means that it can be disposed of after one use.
Claims20
A teat unit with a teat, a support body and a securing part, the support body being dome-shaped or hemi-spherical or part of an oval, and the teat comprising a main body and a mouthpiece, the main body ending in the mouthpiece and the mouthpiece having a suction opening, wherein the teat is arranged on the support body, the main body extending along the support body, the main body and the support body together forming a mouth support for a suckling baby, wherein the teat surrounds the support body at least partially and wherein the teat unit can be secured on a drinking vessel by means of the securing part, wherein the support body and the securing part are fixedly connected to each other indirectly or directly, and once the connection is undone, it cannot be re-established, wherein the main body bears on the support body and is fixedly connected to the support body, and wherein the support body has recesses, which are covered by the main body of the teat, wherein the teat is overmoulded over the support body, and wherein the teat body is overmoulded over the recesses and wherein the teat covers the recesses, the recesses being depressions or through-holes, and wherein the support body comprises a closed circumferential rim above the recesses.
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