Means and method for preventing the spreading of infectious diseases when taking the temperature of patients

• US 3,215,265 A
• Filed: 12/02/1963
• Issued: 11/02/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Guy Welin-Berger John Henrik
• Original Assignee: Guy Welin-Berger John Henrik
• Inventors: GUY WELIN-BERGER JOHN HENRIK
• Application Number:
  US04/327,403
• Time in Patent Office: 701 Days
• US Class Current: 206/212
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/00 Instruments, implements or accessories specially adapted for surgery or diagnosis and not covered by any of the groups A61B1/00 - A61B50/00, e.g. for luxation treatment or for protecting wound edges protective face masks A41D13/11; surgeon's or patient's gowns or dresses A41D13/12; devices for carrying-off, for treatment of, or for carrying-over, body liquids A61M1/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 1/08 Protective devices, e.g. casings
• CPC Class Codes: G01K 13/25 Protective devices therefor, e.g. sleeves preventing contamination

Claims

1. A PROTECTING DEVICE FOR PREVENTING THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES WHEN TAKING THE TEMPERATURE OF PATIENTS BY MEANS OF A FECER THERMOMETER, FOR EXAMPLE A FEVER THERMOMETER OF THE TYPE MADE OF GLASS CONTAINING A TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE FLUID WHICH WHEN HEATED EXPANDS MORE THAN THE SURROUNDING GLASS, CHARACTERIZED IN THAT THE PROTECTING DEVICE CONSISTS OF TWO PROTECTING COVERS FOR THE THERMOMETER, ONE COVER BEING AN INNER PROTECTING SHEATH HAVING A CLOSED END AND AN OPEN END INTO WHICH THE THERMOMETER IS INSERTED WHEN PREPARING TO TAKE A PATIENT'"'"''"'"'S TEMPERATURE AND WHICH SHEATH TOGETHER WITH THE THERMOMETER IS INTENDED TO BE INSERTED INTO THE BODY OF PATIENT, THE INNER SHEATH BEING CONSTRUCTED AT LEAST PARTIALLY OF PLASTIC TRANSPARENT MATERIAL FOR READING THE THERMOMETER THERETHROUGH, AND THE OTHER OF THE TWO PROTECTING COVERS BEING AN OUTER COVER WHICH ALSO HAS A CLOSED END AND AN OPEN END AND IS SUFFICIENT SIZE TO ENVELOP THE INNER SHEATH SO THAT THE INNER SHEATH MAY BE REMOVED TOGETHER WITH THE THERMOMETER FROM THE OPEN END OF THE OUTER COVER FOR TAKING A PATIENT'"'"''"'"'S TEMPERATURE AND THEN INSERTED AGAIN INTO THE OUTER COVER AFTER THE TEMPERATURE IS TAKEN, THE OUTER COVER BEING CONSTRUCTED AT LEAST PARTIALLY OF PLASTIC TRANSPARENT MA-