Apparatus and method for oral dosing

• US 4,059,111 A
• Filed: 05/25/1976
• Issued: 11/22/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Pfizer Inc.
• Original Assignee: Smithkline and French (Proprietary) Limited
• Inventors: Erasmus, Frans P. G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Yasko, John D.
• Application Number:
  US05/689,754
• Time in Patent Office: 546 Days
• Field of Search: 128/223, 128/222
• US Class Current: 604/514
• CPC Class Codes: A61D 7/00 Devices or methods for introducing solid, liquid, or gaseous remedies or other materials into or onto the bodies of animals for reproduction or fertilisation A61D19/00 ; devices for implanting pellets, radon seeds or the like A61M37/0069

Abstract

A method and apparatus for the oral dosing of animals, such as cattle, which comprises a substantially U-shaped conduit adapted to be passed into the mouth of the animal so that the leading end points in the direction of the animal'"'"'s throat and the rear end projects from the side of the animal'"'"'s mouth. A suitable substance is passed via the conduit into the animal'"'"'s mouth.

Claims

1. A method for the oral dosing of an animal with a suitable substance including the steps of locating a substantially rigid U-shaped conduit having an offset leg portion in the mouth of the animal so that the leading end thereof points in the direction of the animal'"'"'s throat and the rear end thereof projects from the side of the animal'"'"'s mouth and said offset leg portion points in the direction of the animal'"'"'s rear to allow for the person administering the dose to be in a position next to the animal to facilitate handling the animal;

and passing the substance via the conduit into the animal'"'"'s mouth.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the substance is passed by means of a pump or the like via the conduit into the animal'"'"'s mouth.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the conduit is made to pass between the animal'"'"'s lips at a position towards the back of its mouth behind its teeth.

4. Apparatus suitable for use in the oral dosing of an animal with a suitable substance including a substantially rigid U-shaped conduit having an offset leg portion which is adapted to be passed into the mouth of the animal so that its leading end points in the direction of the animal'"'"'s throat and its rear end projects from the side of the animal'"'"'s mouth and said offset leg portion points in the direction of the animal'"'"'s rear to allow for the person administering the dose to be in a position next to the animal to facilitate handling the animal, and means adapted to pass the substance via the conduit into the mouth of the animal.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein the means comprises a pump connected through a flexible tube to the rear end of the conduit.

6. The apparatus of claim 4 wherein the rear end of the conduit includes a handle or the like.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein the handle has one end of a flexible element secured to it, the other end of the element including a holding formation or the like.

8. Apparatus suitable for use in the oral dosing of an animal with a suitable substance including a substantially rigid U-shaped conduit adapted to be passed into the mouth of the animal and having a first leg with an offset leading portion the end of which points in the direction of the animal'"'"'s throat and having a second leg projecting from the side of the animal'"'"'s mouth and pointing in the direction of the animal'"'"'s rear to allow for the person administering the dose to be in a position next to the animal to facilitate handling the animal, said leading portion of the first leg being offset in the direction away from the second leg, and means adapted to pass the substance via the conduit into the mouth of the animal.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 wherein the means comprises a pump connected through a flexible tube to the rear end of the conduit.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein the rear end of the conduit includes a handle or the like.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the handle has one end of a flexible element secured to it, the other end of the element including a holding formation.

12. A method for the oral dosing of an animal with a suitable substance including the steps of locating a substantially rigid U-shaped conduit in the mouth of the animal so that an offset leading portion of a first leg points in the direction of the animal'"'"'s throat and a second leg projects from the side of the animal'"'"'s mouth and points in the direction of the animal'"'"'s rear to allow for the person administering the dose to be in a position next to the animal to facilitate handling the animal, said leading portion of the first leg being offset in the direction away from the second leg, and passing the substance via the conduit into the animal'"'"'s mouth.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein the substance is passed by means of a pump or the like via the conduit into the animal'"'"'s mouth.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the conduit is made to pass between the animal'"'"'s lips at a position towards the back of its mouth behind its teeth.