Gastrointestinal sump tube

• US 3,189,031 A
• Filed: 11/04/1963
• Issued: 06/15/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harold W. Andersen
• Original Assignee: Harold W. Andersen
• Inventors: Andersen, Harold W.
• Application Number:
  US04/321,231
• Time in Patent Office: 589 Days
• US Class Current: 604/270
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 15/0003 Nasal or oral feeding-tubes, e.g. tube entering body through nose or mouth
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 15/0046 Expandable retainers inside body lumens of the enteral tract, e.g. fixing by radially contacting a lumen wall
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 15/0069 Tubes feeding directly to the intestines, e.g. to the jejunum
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 15/0088 for sensing parameters related to the device
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 25/0069 Tip not integral with tube

Claims

1. A GASTROINTESTINAL SUMP TUBE INSTRUMENT WHICH EMBODIES AN ASPIRATING TUBE AND AN AIR BLEEDER TUBE WITH THE LATTER EXTERIORLY CONNECTED TO THE FORMER IN PARALLEL RELATION FOR MOST OF THEIR LENGTH AND THE FORMER HAVING A PLURALITY OF SPACED HOLES IN ITS WALL NEAR THE DISTAL END THROUGH ONE OF WHICH THE DISTAL END OF THE LATTER PROJECTS INWARDLY, SAID INSTRUMENT INCLUDING A HOLLOW WEIGHTED DIRECTOR TIP CAPSULE AND A CONNECTOR UNITING THE CAPSULE TO THE ASPIRATING TUBE, THE SAID CONNECTOR BEING COMPOSED OF A SOLID FLEXIBLE SUBSTANCE AND HAVING A NARROW WAIST FOR IMPARTING ADDED FLEXIBILITY OF MOTION TO THE CAPSULE WITH RESPECT TO THE ASPIRATING TUBE FOR PROMOTING THE ADAPTABILITY AND CAPACITY OF THE CAPSULE TO LIE AT ANY ANGLE TO SAID TUBE DICTATED BY THE INTESTINAL FORMATIONS WHILE MAINTAINING THE DISTAL END OF THE ASPIRATING TUBE IN CORRECT LONGITUDINAL FUNCTIONAL POSITION WITH RESPECT TO THE ADJACENT INTESTINAL WALL.