Medicine dispenser adapted to administer liquid medicine via a retromolar pad area

• US 6,007,335 A
• Filed: 10/06/1998
• Issued: 12/28/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 10/06/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Miin-Tchang Sheu
• Original Assignee: Miin-Tchang Sheu
• Inventors: Sheu, Miin-Tchang
• Primary Examiner(s): Wilson, John J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hilsmier, Patrick A.
• Application Number:
  US09/166,915
• Time in Patent Office: 448 Days
• Field of Search: 433/80, 433/89, 433/90, 604/310, 604/311, 604/77
• US Class Current: 433/90
• CPC Class Codes: A61C 19/063 Medicament applicators for teeth or gums, e.g. treatment with fluorides
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 7/0053 Syringes, pipettes or oral dispensers

Abstract

A medicine dispenser adapted to administer liquid medicine via a retromolar pad area including a liquid collecting cylinder body and a soft plastic protective cover. The liquid collecting cylinder body includes a liquid discharge tube extending centrally from a top face thereof. The cylinder body is integrally formed with the liquid discharge tube, the latter having an open end at a top end. The protective tube has an internal hole matching the shape of the liquid discharge tube so that the latter can be fitted entirely into the internal hole of the protective tube. The deepest part of the internal hole of the protective tube is formed with a liquid discharge hole that is substantially at a right angle to the protective tube body so that liquid medicine flowing from the liquid discharge tube can bend at the rear section of the internal hole of the protective tube and out laterally from the liquid discharge hole. Hence, the direction of the discharge of the liquid medicine is in a parallel direction with the lateral direction of the subject'"'"'s oral cavity. The liquid discharge tube is squeezed into the subject'"'"'s mouth via a corner of the mouth and is entirely pushed into the oral cavity along the gap between the gums and the inner side of the cheek until the rear section of the liquid discharge tube is on one side of the retromolar pad area. Then the liquid medicine can be ejected laterally from the inwardly orienting lateral liquid discharge hole into the throat directly.

Claims

1. A medicine dispenser adapted to administer liquid medicine via a retromolar pad area, comprising a liquid collecting cylinder body for receiving and supplying liquid medicine, said cylinder body having a liquid discharge tube extending centrally from a top face thereof, said liquid discharge tube having a rear end forming an open end and a slender tube body that tapers towards said rear end;

and a soft plastic protective tube that has an elongate internal hole that matches the shape of said liquid discharge tube so that said liquid discharge tube can be fitted entirely into and enveloped by said protective tube, wherein

said internal hole of said protective tube is slightly greater than said liquid discharge tube and is formed with a liquid discharge hole at one side of a rear section thereof, said liquid discharge hole being substantially at a right angle to said protective tube, thereby defining a retromolar dispensing tube so that liquid medicine from said liquid collecting cylinder body to said liquid discharge tube flowing to the rear section of said internal hole of said protective tube bends at said liquid discharge hole and out in a lateral direction; and

said protective tube has a front section of its body forming an enlarged stop face that stops at the lips portion of a subject to be fed, said stop face having a projecting identifying point on one side thereof, said identifying point being substantially at a right angle to the lateral direction of said liquid discharge hole, whereby when said identifying point is vertical and orients upwardly, it indicates that said liquid discharge tube is horizontal and orients inwardly, thus providing the user a quick and convenient way to identify the direction of discharge of liquid medicine;

whereby

said liquid discharge tube fitted with said soft plastic protective tube can be squeezed into the inner side of the cheek of the subject from a corner of the mouth and pushed further inwardly to a position where said liquid discharge tube is stopped, and the liquid medicine is fed via the retromolar pad area at the rear section of the gums in the oral cavity into the throat.

2. A method for orally administering a liquid medication to an individual while said individual'"'"'s jaws are clenched which comprises introducing the dispenser of claim 1 between the lips of said individual;

pushing said discharge tube inwardly to the rear section of the individual'"'"'s fornix of vestibule;

aligning said liquid discharge hole so that it faces the retromolar pad area of said individual; and

passing said liquid medication through said liquid discharge hole whereby said liquid passes across the retromolar pad area of the individual into the individual'"'"'s throat while the jaws of said individual are clenched.

3. The medicine dispenser of claim 1 which has a single liquid discharge hole.

4. A method for orally administering a liquid medication to an individual while said individual'"'"'s jaws are clenched which comprises introducing the dispenser of claim 2 between the lips of said individual;

pushing said discharge tube inwardly to the rear section of the individual'"'"'s fornix of vestibule;

aligning said liquid discharge hole so that it faces the retromolar pad area of said individual; and

passing said liquid medication through said liquid discharge hole whereby said liquid passes across the retromolar pad area of the individual into the individual'"'"'s throat while the jaws of said individual are clenched.