MULTI-USE INHALATION THERAPY APPARATUS

• US 3,804,280 A
• Filed: 07/27/1971
• Issued: 04/16/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hudson Oxygen Therapy Sales Company
• Original Assignee: Edward Van Amerongen, Glenn Lee Beall, John Charles Clark, Richard Joseph Reilly
• Inventors: Beall, Glenn Lee, Clark, John Charles, Reilly, Richard Joseph, van Amerongen, Edward
• Primary Examiner(s): Ross, Herbert F.
• Application Number:
  US05/166,417
• Time in Patent Office: 994 Days
• Field of Search: 215/1A,1R,1C 128/194
• US Class Current: 215/384
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/162 Water-reservoir filling system, e.g. automatic
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2206/16 Rotating swirling helical flow, e.g. by tangential inflows
• CPC Class Codes: B05B 17/0615 spray being produced at the free surface of the liquid or other fluent material in a container and subjected to the vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 1/06 with closable apertures at bottom
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 23/00 Details of bottles or jars not otherwise provided for closure-securing elements B65D45/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 215/902 Vent

Abstract

A disposable sealed container as it is formed is aseptically filled with a fluid for inhalation therapy. A first duct fashioned integrally with the container has an integral breachable seal to provide an opening for passing a gas such as oxygen under pressure through the water when the container comprises a humidifier reservoir for operating in a first mode and for removing water when the container comprises a nebulizer reservoir for operating in a second mode. A second duct fashioned integrally with the container has an integral breachable seal to provide an opening through which wetted oxygen is forced outwardly when the container operates in its first mode and through which atmospheric air is drawn when the container operates in one manner of a second mode. A third duct fashioned in a recess in the bottom of the container having an integral breachable seal to provide an opening for dispensing the fluid therefrom into a cup-like device from which oxygen carrying particles of fluid is dispensed while the fluid in said cup-like device is subjected to ultrasonic vibrations and oxygen is admitted under pressure into said cup-like device. A breaching tool is provided which both acts to penetrate the seal and to permit the fluid in the container to be admitted into the cuplike device in a manner to maintain a selected level. As no other holes are present in the container under this mode of operation the tool has provision for admitting a quantity of atmospheric air as it is needed to displace the fluid entering the cup-like device. The said device is useful as a holder for the container. Means is also provided for using the container as a water bottle from which the fluid may be poured.

Claims

1. A container containing a liquid comprising a body having a chamber and defining a reservoir for a liquid;

said body having a bottom;

said bottom having a recess substantially centrally therewith;

a first duct communicating with the interior of said chamber and integral with said body positioned in said recess, extending downwardly and terminating in a plane above said bottom;

the first duct has a breachable seal defining a penetrable sterile barrier integral with said first duct for isolating said liquid in said chamber;

a second duct integral with said body;

said second duct has a passage exterior of said body with an upper end portion disposed above the normal level of said liquid and a lower portion fluidally connected with said chamber below the normal level of said liquid and below the uppermost plane of said recess;

a third duct integrally connected to said body above the normal level of said liquid and having a passage fluidally connected to said chamber terminating above the normal level of said liquid;

at least one of said second and third ducts defining a penetrable sterile barrier integral with said ducts for isolating a liquid in said chamber.

2. The liquid container of claim 1 wherein the said passage has a duct positioned intermediate the second duct and above the normal level of said liquid, said mentioned duct being normally sealed and having integral means for opening it to provide access to the container.

3. The liquid container of claim 2 wherein the integral opening means is provided with an extension whereby it may be grasped to break it off to provide said access.

4. The liquid container of claim 2 wherein a portion of the upper portion of the container is depressed and the said passage and said depressed portion is in spaced relationship whereby the passage may be employed as a handgrip.