Enteral feeding devices, buttons, and/or connectors
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Abstract
An enteral feeding device comprises a connector with a tube for establishing a fluid connection between the connector and a button; the enteral feeding device incorporating a button with an aperture; the connector's tube incorporating an ear projecting laterally from the tube; the button's aperture being substantially circular with a recessed portion sized and shaped to allow the connector's ear to be inserted into the button; wherein the button's aperture further incorporates at least one inwardly projecting ear; and the connector's tube incorporates at least one recessed channel for receiving the at least one ear during the connection of the tube to the button.
Claims7
An enteral feeding device comprising a connector with a tube for establishing a fluid connection between said connector and a button;
- said enteral feeding device incorporating a button with an aperture;
- the connector's tube incorporating an ear projecting laterally from said tube;
- said button's aperture being substantially circular with a recessed portion sized and shaped to allow the connector's ear to be inserted into said button;
- wherein said button's aperture further incorporates at least one inwardly projecting ear;
- and said connector's tube incorporates at least one external recessed channel extending longitudinally for receiving said at least one ear during the connection of said tube to said button.
An enteral button comprising an upper most portion with an aperture which is substantially circular with a laterally extending recessed portion;
- wherein said substantially circular aperture incorporates at least one radially inwardly projecting ear.
An enteral connector comprising a tube for establishing a fluid connection with a button;
- said tube incorporating an ear projecting laterally from said tube;
- and an external recessed channel extending longitudinally.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.