CA2303493A1

CA2303493A1 - Universal portable conversion cart with adapters

Info

Publication number: CA2303493A1
Application number: CA 2303493
Authority: CA
Inventors: Kevin J. Breakey
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 2000-03-29
Filing date: 2000-03-29
Publication date: 2001-09-29

Abstract

This is a part for attaching to a flowmeter, known as a 3 cylinder base, which allows for delivery of nitrous oxide/oxygen for conscious sedation in dental or medical environments. In this invention, the three cylinder holder design enables the operator the ability to operate two cylinders of medical gases (N2O and O2) at one time while having the third cylinder of O2 as either a backup cylinder to replace the first one or to be utilized as an emergency back-up system.

Description

Universal Portable Conversion Cart ~ This cart is a base to hold three E size medical gas cylinders ~ All the parts of the cart are set up to hold cylinders of gas without supension and to keep a reserve tank for emergency and/ or ease of switch over of tanks.
~ The gases to be purchased by the doctor would be nitrous-oxide and oxygen.
The cart would hold one nitrous-oxide tank and two oxygen tanks. The gases would be purchased for conscious sedation to reduce anxiety and enhance painless dentistry and/or medical situations that entail the need to reduce client's pain levels.
~ Adapters are utlized as connectors for the cart in attaching a flowmeter.
N.B
Flowmeter in understood as the eguipment to mix the medical gases together to provide certain levels that will theraputically ehance pain relief while the client is still awake..
~ This cart is made of steel and all attachments are done by Meg Welding process to increase the strenth of the product to hold other pieces of eguipment such as the flowmeter and medical gas cylinders.
~ This cart becomes a complete system when the doctor provides the medical gases through his/her supplier and the flowmeter from their preferred manufacturer.
~ This cart operates as a two cylinder base with the third tank holder being a backup supply of oxygen .

Claims

1. This part allows no suspension of medical gas cylinders as the design of the base allows for secure hold of three cylinders to allow for less likeliness of tipping over and less stress on the yolk attachments when tank valves are attached. Other bases do not have three cylinder holders.This is the first design for three cylinder design compared to any conscious sedation base.

2. The materials in the cart design are different which allows for a more secure type of base to provide support to the other sedation part. Meg welding, non-skid ballbearing wheels, physics in design for three ring application to provide secure hold of cylinders, rust-resistant pressure-coated paint application for better maintenance makes this cart unique.

3. This part allows the purchaser a part that gives more choices to purchasing other type of manufactured parts, namely flowmeter heads. This cart will attach with adapters to a Porter Flowmeter, an Accutron Flowmeter (five models), Matrx Flowmeter among ethers. The comfort of having more choices wrath more the one piece of equipment to purchase allows the purchaser with a product they like the most and understand how to operate.

4. This cart allows the purchaser to have a conversion of his/her existing parts from a central N2O/O2 system in a dental office to a portable system. The existing doctor's parts in his/her office can be transferred over to attach to the cart (namely the flowmeter, Pressure hoses that deliver N2O and O2, N2O and O2 regulators) to allow a system to be made for the operation of administering mixed gases to provide a conscious sedation for anesthetic purposes.