CN1224340A

CN1224340A - Ear and nose hygiene device

Info

Publication number: CN1224340A
Application number: CN 96180361
Authority: CN
Inventors: 雅各布·贝甘
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1996-07-04
Filing date: 1996-07-04
Publication date: 1999-07-28

Abstract

A personal hyeiene device adapted for insertion into the ear canel or the nostrils, e. g. to remove exudate, being an oar-like device having a stem and one or two broad end bodies, each at an end of said stem, said body having a rim portion and one or more exudate engaging members integral with and surrounded by said rim.

Description

Ear and nose hygiene device

The present invention relates to personal hygiene device.More specifically, the device that relates to cleaning auditory meatus and/or cleaning nostril.

The cleaning cerumen or in order to solve the problem of itching the earpick road can with as utensil or carry out temporarily such as toothpick, hard handkerchief with cotton tip applicator.Use interim utensil may cause the damage or the cerumen of accumulation is further entered in the auditory meatus.Use cotton balls can make the unnecessary excessive drying of auditory meatus.

The nostril in cleaning nostril, particularly baby is necessary when allowing nose freely to breathe.This also available similar device carries out, but also relevant problem can occur.In addition, under cleaning baby's nostril situation, importantly when cleaning, can guarantee freely to breathe.

The known multiple device that is useful on these cleanings.US.147660 discloses and has used a kind of ear cleaner, and it comprises a curved silk, at one end or two ends circle is arranged, fixing cleaning rod is provided with in the other end of ear cleaner or does not have little spoonful.US 2096162 discloses a kind of utensil of clearing up the nostril, comprises a bar, and an end is the Herba Trifolii Pratentis form.DE-3633585 discloses a kind of device, comprises that the axle of a flexible material is ined succession one and handled knob.Axle has a helical ridge to extend along its whole length, and plane surface of termination.US-3203418 discloses a kind of earpick bar, is fixing a removable rod member on it, can change by removing it.US 5334212 discloses a kind of device, and it comprises a ring curet, can dig out cerumen, also has a safety backstop apparatus, and it has seam and centre mount hole to control the insertion depth of ring curet.

These and other known devices, though necessarily program is cleared up auditory meatus and nostril, but be not to carry out finely, just can not clear up effectively and operate and hinder auditory meatus and nostril when avoiding clearing up the ear nose, or to the trickle thin film injury of the inner surface in nostril.

The purpose of this invention is to provide the device of clearing up the ear nose effectively and/or the ear nose being swiped.

Also can understand other purpose of the present invention by the following describes.

In the following describes, term " exudate " is used for representing cerumen and snotter.

The invention provides a kind of personal hygiene device that is used to insert auditory meatus or nostril, can be used to remove exudate, device is a pulpous state, have a bar and one or two plate end, be located at an end of described bar, described plate end main body have a circle limit becomes with one or more and described circle limit whole and quilt enclose the limit round with the exudate fastener.

According to a most preferred embodiment of the present invention, described circle limit has a slick inner surface, makes between the perisporium in device and auditory meatus or nostril to have only slight friction.

According to one embodiment of the present of invention, described circle limit has a cast, described fastener is a plurality of inside projectioies, and according to other embodiment of the present invention, one or more fasteners are selected from following group: a grid, one with holes, a plurality of partitions of extending in the relative part on circle limit etc.

Described main body can be flat, perhaps can be bend or distortion so that increase the surperficial of the zone contact with the exudate that will remove and/or be suitable for matching with auditory meatus or intranarial space.Plate end main body can have the form of multiple other requirement, and for example it can be convex, spill or concave-convex etc.

According to one embodiment of the present of invention, device also comprises a safety backstop apparatus, and it defines the maximum insertion depth of device.This is especially for the device particular importance that is used for the child or is used for the treatment of the people with disability by the nurse.

This device typically is made of plastics, but undoubtedly also can be made from other material (as timber, metal, ceramic material) etc. by the craftsman.

Below by some special embodiment the present invention is described.In described embodiment, device comprises a single plate extremity piece, but should understand and the invention is not restricted to this, it also can comprise two plate extremity piece main bodys, be located at the two ends of bar, should understand that also described embodiment just illustrates, but the invention is not restricted to these embodiment.

Fig. 1-the 3rd according to the front view of device of the present invention, is the projection of extending inwards with the exudate fastener wherein;

Fig. 4-the 5th according to the front view of the device of the embodiment of the invention, is a substrate with holes with the exudate fastener wherein;

Fig. 6 is the front view according to the device of embodiments of the invention, is parallel partition with the exudate fastener wherein;

Fig. 7 illustrates the device according to one embodiment of the invention, is grid form with the exudate fastener wherein;

Fig. 8 illustrates the device according to one embodiment of the invention, wherein the longitudinal axis bending of the relative bar in end of plate;

Fig. 9 a illustrates the front view of device;

Fig. 9 b illustrates the top view of device.

At first referring to Fig. 1, a device of the embodiment of the invention shown in the figure, this device 1 comprise a bar 2 and a plate end 3.Bar 2 (having only sub-fraction to illustrate) typically is several double-lengths of plate end 3.

Plate end 3 has a circle limit 5, is provided with a plurality of (in the present embodiment being 6) projection 7 inwards.These projectioies of this embodiment are with embodiment illustrated in fig. 3 different, and they extend beyond the longitudinal axis 9 of device.

Fig. 2,3 embodiment and Fig. 1 implementation of class seemingly, similar elements is marked with same label.The difference of these embodiment is projection 7 ', 7 " different with projection 7 among Fig. 1 embodiment.In Fig. 2, projection 7 ' has corrugated warp architecture, and projection 7 " have the shape same with the projection 7 of Fig. 1 embodiment, but shorter and be no more than the longitudinal axis of device.

In Fig. 4 embodiment, core just with on the exudate fastener is equipped with a plurality of holes and engages bigger area with exudate to provide.Fig. 5 embodiment is basic and Fig. 4 embodiment is similar, and main difference is the structure with exudate fastener 41 ', is that the hole has rectangular cross section.

Fig. 6 illustrates the device of one embodiment of the invention, comprises a plurality of and the exudate fastener, has the form of parallel partition 61.In Fig. 7 embodiment, has the formation of grid 71 with the exudate fastener.

The device of Fig. 8 embodiment has a bar 81 and has the plate end 83 of curved shape.Should understand that except that curved shape, the plate end also has the form of various other requirements, can be distortion, convex, spill, recessed-convex etc.

As shown in Figure 9, device of the present invention can be equipped with a safety backstop apparatus 93.The degree of depth that the controlled making sheet of this backstop apparatus end 95 enters auditory meatus or nostril.

Two elements of device, just bar and plate end can be in integral body, or two elements that separate, and they are bonded with each other together.

Claims

1. personal hygiene device that is used to insert auditory meatus or nostril, can be used to remove exudate, device is a pulpous state, have a bar and one or two plate end, be located at an end of described bar, described plate end main body have a circle limit becomes with one or more and described circle limit whole and quilt enclose the limit round with the exudate fastener.

2. according to the device of claim 1, it is characterized in that described circle limit has slick outer surface.

3. according to the device of claim 1 or 2, it is characterized in that described circle limit has a cast, described fastener is a plurality of projectioies inwards.

4. according to the device of claim 1 or 2, it is characterized in that described one or more fastener is selected from following group: a grid, one with holes and a plurality of partitions that between the relative part on described circle limit, extend.

5. each device in requiring according to aforesaid right, it is characterized in that described plate end main body be bend or distortion.

6. according to the device of claim 5, it is characterized in that described plate end be convex, spill or concave-convex.

7. each device is characterized in that described device also comprises a safety backstop apparatus in requiring according to aforesaid right, and it defines the maximum insertion depth of described device.