Nebulizer

• US 3,097,645 A
• Filed: 03/22/1960
• Issued: 07/16/1963
• Est. Priority Date: 03/22/1960
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Victor E. Lester
• Original Assignee: Victor E. Lester
• Inventors: Lester, Victor E.
• Application Number:
  US04/016,776
• Time in Patent Office: 1,211 Days
• US Class Current: 128/200.21
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 11/06 of the injector type
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 261/65 Vaporizers

Claims

1. A NEBULIZER, COMPRISING:

A COVERED BOWL-LIKE LIQUID CONTAINER;

AN ATOMIZING NOZZLE ASSEMBLY COMPRISING AN INNER TUBULAR AIR-NOZZLE EXTENDING UP GENERALLY VERTICALLY THROUGH THE BOTTOM OF THE BOWL TO A POINT INSIDE SAID CONTAINER AND ABOVE THE BOTTOM THEREOF AND AN OUTER TUBULAR SPRAY-NOZZLE INSIDE SAID CONTAINER CONCENTRIC WITH AND SPACED FROM SAID AIR NOZZLE, SAID SPRAY-NOZZLE HAVING LIQUID INLET MEANS NEAR ITS LOWER END BY WHICH LIQUID FROM SAID CONTAINER CAN ENTER, AND BOTH SAID AIR-NOZZLE AND SAID SPRAY-NOZZLE HAVING ORIFICES AT THEIR UPPER ENDS;

AND A RELATIVELY LARGE, GENERALLY HORIZONTAL TUBULAR OUTLET MEANS FOR NEBULIZED MATERIAL SPACED FROM SAID NOZZLE ASSEMBLY SUCH THAT A STREAM OF NEBULIZED MATERIAL EMANATING FROM SAID NOZZLE ASSEMBLY IMPINGES THE WALL OF SAID OUTLET MEANS BEFORE IT ENTERS SAID OUTLET MEANS, SAID OUTLET MEANS HAVING AN OPENING LEADING FROM SAID CONTAINER INTO SAID OUTLET MEANS.