CO.sub.2 gas sampling mask having a bevelled sampling tube extending into the mask

• US 5,400,781 A
• Filed: 07/20/1994
• Issued: 03/28/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 08/03/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Southmedic, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Richard A. Davenport
• Inventors: Davenport, Richard A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Asher, Kimberly L.
• Application Number:
  US08/277,932
• Time in Patent Office: 251 Days
• Field of Search: 128/202.27, 128/205.25, 128/206.21, 128/206.24, 128/206.28
• US Class Current: 128/206.28
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/06 Respiratory or anaesthetic masks
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/0683 Holding devices therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 16/085 Gas sampling
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/432 partial CO2 pressure (P-CO2)

Abstract

An oxygen mask made of clear flexible material, for example, polyvinyl chloride, has a gas pocket just inside two holes in it, below the nose and in front of the mouth, the holes adapted to lead via tubing, one to an oxygen source and the other to a respiratory gas or carbon dioxide monitor, the rest of the mask being gas-proof except for permissible small openings at about ear and cheek level. The gas pocket is formed by the mask extending outward in front of the face, particularly the nose and mouth, and having the holes in the floor thereof, tubes and connectors being adapted to fit through the holes and go to an oxygen source and a carbon dioxide monitor.

Claims

1. A CO₂ gas sampling mask comprising securing means, a mask membrane sufficiently flexible to be held around the cheeks in an elliptical manner by said securing means, said mask when worn by a patient fitting downward from about an eye level starting level along a nose at the nose angle from vertical to a point beyond the tip of the nose and then turning downward to a level about even with an indentation between lower lip and chin to form a floor of a pocket and then going around the chin upward over the cheek and back to said eye level starting level, said mask having two openings in said floor, a forward opening for introduction of oxygen therethrough and a rearward opening for removing respiratory gas to measure carbon dioxide content comprising a bevelled intake end sampling tube molded integrally with said mask and continuous with an integrally molded female luer locking connector, said bevelled end sampling tube extending inside of said mask in front of the mouth and the nose and having said bevelled end adapted to directed toward the mouth and the nose from which respiratory gas is exhaled.

2. The CO₂ gas sampling tube of claim 1 wherein said forward opening comprises a male oxygen connector integrally molded with said mask membrane and continuing with an external male oxygen connector.

3. The CO₂ gas sampling mask of claim 1 wherein assembled together for breathing oxygen into said mask and on into said nose and mouth and for removing respiratory gas containing carbon dioxide are, going from said openings outward, for oxygen, a male connector, a female connector and a tube for receiving oxygen from a source, and, for removing respiratory gas containing carbon dioxide, said bevelled sampling tube, said female luer connector, a male luer connector, and a respiratory gas transfer tube.

4. The CO₂ gas sampling mask of claim 1 wherein said securing means comprise an elastic fastener going around a head proximal ear level continuously from one side of the head to the other.

5. The CO₂ gas sampling mask of claim 1 having a plurality of small openings on the cheek portions thereof.

6. An oxygen mask placeable over the nose and mouth of a user comprising:

a. a pocket;

b. an inflow tube penetrating said pocket for directing oxygen into said pocket toward the nose and the mouth; and

c. a sampling tube penetrating said pocket between said inflow tube and the mouth, said sampling tube having a bevelled end opening toward said mouth and away from said inflow tube, said sampling tube extending inside of said mask in front of the mouth and the nose and having said bevelled end adapted to be directed toward the mouth and the nose from which respiratory gas is exhaled.