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US 8,985,357 B1Granted
Fluid delivery device
AssigneeGMS Medical LLC
InventorsTodd Strayer, Bobbie Strayer
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Abstract
A pediatric medicine delivery device includes a syringe and a nipple. The syringe body frictionally engages the inner surface of the nipple with an interference fit. The nipple opening has a diverter for directing fluid in a direction transverse to the axis of the device. A faceplate includes a circumferential orientation device to properly orient the nipple.
Claims20
A fluid delivery device comprising:
- an axially extending tube having an outer surface, a fluid reservoir, and a downstream opening,
- a plunger axially movable within the fluid reservoir, and
- a nipple having a hollow body, an inner surface, and downstream opening,
- wherein the nipple extends over the tube adjacent the tube opening, and wherein the tube opening is generally axially aligned with the nipple opening,
- wherein the tube is in contact with and removable from the nipple, and
- wherein the plunger is extendable within the nipple.
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A method of orally delivering fluid to a first human by a second human, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing an axially extending tube having a fluid reservoir and a downstream opening,
- providing a syringe having a plunger axially movable within the fluid reservoir of the tube, and
- providing an axially extending nipple having a hollow body, a downstream end, and a fluid delivery opening in the downstream end, the nipple extending over the tube adjacent the downstream opening in the tube, the fluid delivery opening having a transversely extending wall extending completely across the opening to divide the delivery opening into two distinct fluid passageways,
- inserting the downstream end of the nipple into the mouth of the first human and,
- forcing the fluid through the delivery opening by a second human by moving the plunger axially within the fluid reservoir toward the downstream opening of the tube and the field delivery opening of the nipple, whereby the fluid is diverted by transversely extending wall in a direction transverse to the nipple axis.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.