EP1275366A2 - Sauger oder Schnuller - Google Patents

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EP1275366A2
EP1275366A2 EP02425414A EP02425414A EP1275366A2 EP 1275366 A2 EP1275366 A2 EP 1275366A2 EP 02425414 A EP02425414 A EP 02425414A EP 02425414 A EP02425414 A EP 02425414A EP 1275366 A2 EP1275366 A2 EP 1275366A2
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Mauro Testa
Daniela Simonini
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J11/00—Teats
    • A61J11/001—Teats having means for regulating the flow rate
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J11/00—Teats
    • A61J11/001—Teats having means for regulating the flow rate
    • A61J11/0015—Teats having means for regulating the flow rate by size or shape of the opening
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J11/00—Teats
    • A61J11/0035—Teats having particular shape or structure
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J11/00—Teats
    • A61J11/0035—Teats having particular shape or structure
    • A61J11/006—Teats having particular shape or structure for improving flexibility
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
    • A61J17/00—Baby-comforters; Teething rings
    • A61J17/001—Baby-comforters

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  • the invention concerns a teat or dummy, comprising a flexible material element to be positioned within the oral cavity and having an enlarged head and a lengthened element for the connection with a terminal for coupling with a foodstuff container and/or to a screen element.
  • the invention is based on the knowledge that a new-born is anthropologically programmed to eat, his/her tongue is anthropologically conditioned to come out, to grip the mother nipple and to push it back within the mouth against the hard palate, forcing the food from the mother breast so that it is possible that there is survivor as well as a proper growing and development of the baby.
  • the bolus made of milk or food, acts on the lingual position and we expect that the devices, used by the child during the several hours of his day, work alternatively and combined with these functions.
  • the muscular functions trained during the breast-feeding, represent the origin of a correct muscular-skeleton development. The conjunction of movements, performed during the feeding, sets in motion all the face's muscles and it is well known that the muscles act on the child as a great development's factor.
  • the child in the natural feeding the child is able to control three fundamental factors, as to say the teat's length, the flow inside it and its tissue's flexibility; at the moment, the same does not happen in the artificial feeding, where the dummy's hardness does not allow it, and especially its base does not resemble either the mother's breast shape, or its function.
  • the child has a suffocating sensation, both with the food and the dummy's use; the child brain, as defence, resorts to his tongue, this one places behind the teat, pushing towards it with its back, causing the so called "lingual push", which is the origin of many malocclusion or misalignments.
  • a good system to correctly stimulate the development should have, besides a proper teat, some "trainers”, which could help the child in the development, stimulating the above mentioned natural muscular functions.
  • Object of the present invention is that of realising teats and/or dummies having the active stimulator function according to the proper natural mode of the muscles involved in the suction functionality, not dispersing the growing forces of the oro-facial musculature, but concentrating and guiding the same forces.
  • the invention reaches the above mentioned objects by a teat or dummy of the kind described in the introductive portion, wherein the enlarged head and/or lengthened element connecting the head with the terminal coupling with the container or screen and/or said terminal or screen having such shape or structure so that it is stimulated the natural behaviour of the nipple an of the mother breast during the suction at least with reference to the stimulation action, and of the consequent proper use or exercise of one or more facial organs and/or muscles, of the lips, and/or of the tongue, as well as the stimulation and the consequent proper use and/or exercise of the at least one or more of said organs or muscles during the squeezing of the natural breast.
  • the shape of the teat or dummy is such to stimulate the proper use or exercise of the organs or muscles involved in the squeezing of the natural breast of at least two, three or all the organs or muscles involved in said action.
  • the enlarged head has stimulation means for the proper positioning and use of the tongue and of the muscle associated to the same tongue or involved in nursing phase.
  • said stimulation means are comprised of a cavity on the enlarged head on its side destined to come in touch with the tongue.
  • Said cavity can be realised by a recess in the enlarged head or by an arcuate shape of the enlarged head.
  • the enlarged head has at least two axial projections on the lingual side, making reference to the axis on the lengthened element connecting said head and the container or screen, said projections defining an intermediate cavity, preferably with rounded peripheral wall or spindle shaped.
  • the two projections are shaped as sphere sectors or as ovoidal, or elliptical or spindle shaped element
  • the two projections are preferably comprised of elastic material, so that during the compression of the enlarged head between the tongue and the palate, they are laterally pull apart defining a cavity having the proper dimensions to stimulate the tongue.
  • the enlarged head has a shape defined by a spherical, ovoidal, elliptical, or like envelope surface, however they are possible also enlarged heads having the side faced toward the palate flattened, even if always more or less arcuated.
  • the enlarged head can have a coaxial or substantially coaxial disposition with respect to the lengthened element for the connection of the head with the terminal coupling a teat with a container or to the screen of a dummy, or the axis of the head can be also parallel with respect to the axis of said lengthened connection element.
  • the enlarged head can be sloped with respect to the lengthened element, so that the axis of the same has a pre-established angle with respect to the axis of the connection lengthened element, according to a direction perpendicular to the occlusal plane of the oral cavity, making reference to the proper position of the teat or dummy.
  • Said angle is preferably included between 15° and 30°.
  • Still another embodiment provides an enlarged head that is substantially flattened perpendicularly to the occlusal plane of the oral cavity.
  • the enlarged head provides a junction portion, enlarging in a limited measure with respect to the lengthened element in such a way to a chalice shaped first part, connecting with the terminal part of said substantially flattened head.
  • the enlarged head provides a cavity on the side destined to be faced toward the tongue.
  • the cavity of the enlarged head can be also realised by an arcuate shape transverse with respect to the longitudinal axis of the connection lengthened element of the flattened enlarged head.
  • At least the side of the flattened enlarged head faced toward the tongue is sloped with respect to the occlusal plane of the oral cavity, and in such a way that the flattened head is tapered toward the free end opposed to the connection lengthened element.
  • said surface faced toward the tongue and provided with the cavity and/or the arcuate shape provides a curved development also in the direction of the free end of the same enlarged head, thus creating, in a lateral view, a spout shape tapered toward the free end of the same enlarged head.
  • the side opposite with respect to the side faced toward the tongue is rounded with a curvature that can be more or less marked.
  • the above mentioned flattened enlarged head can be oriented in such a way that its axis is parallel and/or coincident, or substantially coincident with the axis of the connection lengthened element.
  • the flattened enlarged head can be oriented with its axis oriented sloped in the direction of the palate with respect to the axis of the connection lengthened element.
  • the inclination of the side faced toward the tongue with respect to the occlusal plane is determined or only by the inclination of said side with respect to the medial plane of the enlarged head parallel with respect to the occlusal plane of the oral cavity, or only by the inclination of the whole enlarged head, or by a combination of both the inclinations.
  • At least the inclination of the side of the enlarged head faced toward the tongue has an inclination included between about 15° and 30° with respect to the occlusal plane and in the direction of the palate.
  • connection element and the enlarged head are obviously internally hollow within the teat and they can be hollow or full within the dummy.
  • Said means can be corrugations of the outer surface of said lengthened element, projections, enlargements, knurlings having every shape and number, or combination of other means.
  • annular enlargements realising also a bellow shaped outer element.
  • Said means for the proper stimulation and/or positioning of the lips are provided in the contact zone between the lips and the lengthened element, and are distributed in a corresponding way according to suitable arrangements, substantially on annular intermediate zones, referring to the axial extension of the connection lengthened element.
  • An advantageous embodiment of said stimulation means provides small ribs, eyelashes, or anatomical swellings, for the dynamic stimulation of the labial pressure with a dynamic proprioceptive contact, on the connection element in the contact zone with one or both the lips.
  • Said small ribs are provided in every number on the contact fascia between the lips and the lengthened element. Said small ribs can provide a uniform or variable radial extension each other and within the extension of a small rib. The above is also valid for the small ribs width and length. Said small ribs can further be provided in such a way to intersect each other.
  • a preferred embodiment that gives the best stimulation effects, provides at least a pair of small ribs or eyelashes, prevailingly oriented in a transverse direction on the lengthened element, and provided on the contact zone between the lengthened element with at least one of the lips, or with both lips, said small ribs or eyelashes being provided in such a way to create a "X" oriented in a diametrical direction of the lengthened element.
  • the "X" is created by small ribs having an arcuated opposed development, and that in the central or intermediate zone are tangent each other.
  • the small ribs have a bigger thickness at their ends and a reduced thickness in the central zone, in such a way that the peak of the same has a basin shape, in an elevation lateral view. Also the width of the small ribs is bigger at their ends than in the intermediate zone.
  • the above embodiment is such to create the best dynamic stimulation of the labial pressure with dynamic proprioceptive contact, since optimally stimulates the receptors during the motion.
  • connection element and/or the head element are realised in such a way to be lengthening by the suction force.
  • Means allowing said elastic lengthening can be comprised of a suitable calibration of the intrinsic elasticity of the material, for example reducing the thickness of the material in the connection zone of the lengthened element or in the junction zone of the same with the terminal for coupling with a container, for the teat, or in the coupling zone with the screen, for the dummy.
  • said elastic lengthening means can be comprised of redundant material collection zones, such as radial enlargements having a spherical, oval, tapering or like shape, or configurations of the lengthened element as a bellow.
  • connection lengthened element can comprise at the same time stimulation and/or signalling means for the proper positioning of the lips.
  • the terminal for coupling with the container and/or screen have a elastically element, faced toward the lips, yieldable and deformable by a compression action of the lips against said side.
  • the same teat, in the junction zone of the lengthened element with the coupling terminal with a container or the dummy, in the junction zone of the lengthened element with the screen can have, on said terminal element and on said screen, an elastic soft material cushion simulating the elastic yielding behaviour of the breast in the zone surrounding the nipple.
  • the terminal for coupling with the container is suitably radially enlarged and provides a little cap or dome shape with a junction zone with the connection lengthened element, and forming a support zone for the lips, having a slightly arched development.
  • the elastic soft material cushion can be comprised with a soft material full layer, that, in the teat, can be comprised of the material of the terminal for coupling with the same container, or with a soft material layer reported and fixed to the relevant zone of said teat terminal, while in the dummy, said cushion is comprised of a soft material layer fixed on the screen, on the side faced toward the enlarged head.
  • the soft material cushion can be comprised as a internally hollow cove or bladder, comprised of a closed covered element.
  • Said cavity can be empty or filled with a different soft material.
  • said cushion is comprised of an elastic soft wall mounted spaced apart from a support wall.
  • the support wall is comprised of the screen, while in case of a teat, said support wall can be comprised of the wall of the coupling terminal of the teat or of a support wall coupled with the elastic soft wall.
  • said cushion as a removable and replaceable separated element, coupling with teats and/or dummies of different kind.
  • both the full embodiment and the full or empty hollow embodiment both the embodiment comprising a wall spaced apart from a support wall can be comprised of a soft material coating element provided with removable coupling means for the screen.
  • said means can be peripheral coupling means with the screen peripheral edge, such as a peripheral edge of the cushion such as an continuous annular or discontinuous groove for engagement of the peripheral edge of the screen.
  • Position maintenance is ensured by an elastic coupling of said peripheral groove with the soft coating obtained for example exploiting the elastic properties of said coating, particularly providing a development of the peripheral groove with peripheral dimensions slightly minor than the peripheral dimensions of the screen.
  • connection lengthened element Furthermore, it is advantageous providing a central coupling hole on the connection lengthened element.
  • Said hole can provide dimensions slightly minor than the lengthened element and engaging on the same by elastic forcing, thanks to the intrinsic elasticity both of the coating and of the enlarged head and of the connection lengthened element.
  • an analogous structure comprising also a support rigid wall, being the rigid wall and the associated soft element elastically engaged forcing the lengthened element thanks to a central hole provided in the same.
  • the rigid wall can have a wall zone about the hole, shaped in such a way to create a resting surface to the zone of the terminal of the teat that generally radially enlarges with respect to the connection lengthened element.
  • projections can be provided on the connection lengthened element, determining the proper mounting position of the soft coating and/or of the soft coating and rigid screen combination.
  • Materials by which said elements are realised can be the normal materials presently employed for teats or dummies, such as rubber, caoutchouc, silicon, etc.
  • the figures show different embodiments of a teat and a dummy according to the invention.
  • a teat generally comprises an enlarged head 1 meant for being placed in the oral cavity, a lengthened element 2 which connects the enlarged head 1 with a terminal coupling 3 with a foodstuff container.
  • a dummy instead generally presents an enlarged head 1, a lengthened element 2 and a terminal coupling 3' with a screen or shield 4.
  • both the teat and the dummy present common elements, as to say the enlarged head 1 and the lengthened element 2 and they differ in the terminal coupling, which is meant for coupling several elements that depend on the use and the specific function of the teat or of the dummy themselves.
  • both the devices, teat and dummy have similar functions, as to say the breast simulation, but they have different aims, namely the feeding and a soothing action, or however not feeding, in particular also the use of the organs and/or muscles involved in nursing phase.
  • the teat or dummy presents an enlarged head, defined by a rounded envelope zone, as for instance spherical, ovoidal, elliptical or as a cherry and, more or less regular and symmetrical at rotation, that enlarged head 1 being made of several projections or knurlings 101 and hollows 201.
  • the projections or knurlings present an axial lengthened shape and are conformed in axial section passing through the plane of maximum radial extension, so that to be restricted or extended on the section of the corresponding envelope shape.
  • the projections or knurlings 101 can be contemplated in whatever number and with whatever related angular positions. However, the preferred and showed embodiment presents four radial projections 101 with couples of projections 101 diametrically opposed, lined up on two crossed diameters, in particular substantially perpendicular.
  • the enlarged head Being used, namely being compressed between the tongue and the palate, the enlarged head is deformed as showed in Figure 7.
  • the couples of contiguous projections 101, opposed to the perpendicular plane with respect to the occlusal plane of the oral cavity, are get closer, while the projections 101 on the same lingual or palatine side of the enlarged head 1 are moved away or opened wide, making wider projections 201.
  • projections 201 are generated by the compression between the tongue and the palate, it is obtained by these organs a controlled deformation of the enlarged head 1.
  • the projections 201 both on the lingual and the palatine side, are therefore deformed with respect to their shape and their extension or deepness, in an anatomical way by part or organ to which they adhere.
  • Figure 7 shows, in a schematic way, the deformation of the enlarged head and that it can not necessarily happen symmetrically to the median axial plane parallel to the occlusal plane of the oral cavity, but also with respect to the perpendicular median plane.
  • asymmetrical shapes or with a limited symmetry of the enlarged head 1 allow to realise teats or dummies with a corrective function on the oral cavity.
  • the shape can be completely personalised or meant to the correction of typical behaviours and substantially identical to a great number of patients, so that it is possible to use standard corrective shapes, valid for all the patients that have the same pathology or dysfunction.
  • the part without projections and hollows can be flattening, substantially flat or more or less rounded, or can follow the shape of the spherical, elliptical, oval or similar plane of envelope or a whatever rounded shape.
  • the sector of the enlarged head 1 without projections 101 and hollows 201 can present one or more palatine hollows, that can be peripherally closed, namely surrounded by continuous lateral limitation walls or opened in one or more whatever points or zones.
  • any single projection 101 can be realised in following segments separated by transversal hollows, that can extend to the bottom wall of the axial hollows 201 or it can end at a higher level.
  • the teat or the dummy contemplate a lengthened element 2, that presents in at least an intermediate zone, if not for all its length, labial stimulation means. These means have also the function of indicating the correct mouthpiece position of the teat or dummy.
  • a first embodiment provides that the lengthened element 2 has a swelling 102 in the middle zone.
  • the swelling as showed in Figure 1A and 1B, can present different dimensions, it can be spherical or elliptic, spindle-shaped or rounded.
  • the swelling 102 can be full, as in Figure 11, or it can be a real annular radial widening of the lengthened element 2, that is tubular.
  • the lengthened element 2 presents a wrinkling 202, that can be full or made with a specific deformation of the tubular wall of the lengthened element, as a folding or like.
  • the wrinkling shape can be whatever, but particularly it is preferred duly rounded.
  • a further embodiment of the labial stimulation means is showed with several realisation examples in Figures 28 to 34.
  • it is a particular shape as eyelashes or small ribs oriented in a transverse direction external to the lengthened element 2 and that are indicated with the reference number 10.
  • Said eyelashes or small ribs can be full, as showed in the figures, or hollowed and can also consist by an external deformation, due to a corresponding internal of the lengthened element 2.
  • the ribs 10 are advantageously placed in the contact zone between the lips and the lengthened element and they have an oblong shape transversal oriented to the lengthened element axis.
  • the ribs shape that can be rounded, arched, straight, as broken line, as a V or as a trapezium, is such to dynamically stimulate the labial pressure with a dynamic proprioceptive contact.
  • the ribs 10 and 10' can present wrinklings both in axial and radial direction along their length.
  • Figure 34 shows an embodiment in which the radial thickness diminishes in the middle zone, the radial external crest 110 being made of a symmetric hollow.
  • the variation of the thickness, both in radial and in axial direction, can be symmetrical and asymmetrical.
  • the different shapes and variations of axial and/or radial thickness, as well as the asymmetries of distribution and axial and/or radial thickness of the ribs can be calibrated so that to differentiate the dynamic stimulus all along the extension of the contact zone of the lips and more stimulate specific zones compared to the others of said contact zones, correcting in a targeted way eventual anomalous uses or postural conditions.
  • labial stimulation means can be provided for small projections, as peduncles or bristles 302. Further to peduncles or bristles shape, these labial stimulation means can be made of rounded thickenings, as little domes or rounded projections.
  • the peduncles or bristles 302 can covered all the external zone of one or more projections 102 or wrinklings 202.
  • these stimulation means can be combined each others.
  • at least part of the lengthened element 2 can present a typology of labial stimulation means and at least another part can present another part of labial stimulation means.
  • one of the two typologies or one or more typologies of labial stimulation means can superimposed and/or been expected in different zones of the lengthened element 2.
  • this feature can be contemplated combined with the folding 202 or the projection 102 above described.
  • an element like a folding, or however with analogous functions can be contemplated in the contact zone between the lengthened element 2 and the terminal coupling 3 of the teat to a container or of a dummy to a screen 4.
  • the end of the lengthened element 2 is joined to the terminal 3 with an annular loop 402 axially oriented.
  • the end of the lengthened element 2 enters in a established measure, on the terminal coupling 3 and on the radial external peripheral border, parallel to the lengthened element 2, and it joins to the terminal coupling 3. Therefore, the loop represents a accumulation of material, that under suction allows a certain lengthening of the lengthened element 2.
  • This feature is showed in Figure 8 to 11, with reference to a teat; however, it is also evident that the same can be applied to a dummy, as in Figures 12 to 14.
  • FIGS 8 to 11 show different embodiments of teats, in which is contemplated the enlarged head according to Figures 1 to 7 and respectively the lengthened element 2 to labial stimulation means according to Figures 4, 3 and 1A, in the full version of the projection 102 or in that obtained with an internal deformation of the tubular wall, corresponding to the external one.
  • the enlarged head is obviously provided for supplying holes 5. These holes are contemplated in the zone of the enlarged head 1 with oriented axis substantially in axial direction of the teat, or however in parallel direction to the suction one.
  • the enlarged head can present one or more holes 5' in one of the hollows 201, made by t-he single projections 101, in the bottom wall of the same and/or in the lateral zones made by the rising sides of the projections 101.
  • the holes can be symmetrically distributed with respect to the projections 101, or in asymmetric and/or casual way.
  • the terminal coupling 3 of the teat can present a whatever shape, widening in a more or less spherical way with respect to the lengthened element 2. In the showed example the terminal coupling has a little spherical dome.
  • a dummy presents a lengthened element similar to the dummy's one and an enlarged head 1 as the previous described one.
  • the terminal coupling 3' to the dummy's screen 4 is made of an annular peripheral flange 502 on the side of the lengthened element 2 opposite to the enlarged head 1.
  • the annular peripheral flange 502 is meant for a place in the screen 4. In particular, from the screen 4 a little pivot with enlarged head starts and it is meat for entering in a corresponding joint hole 602 with an elastic deformation of the terminal coupling 3'.
  • the enlarged head derives from a chalice shape, axial on the lengthened element 2 and of which it is contemplated only a segment, according to a section plane substantially transversal and inclined from the lingual side to the palatine one directing to the free end of the enlarged head 1.
  • Said section zone is not made of a simple plane, but of a curve, that forms in the lingual side, a hollow opened to the lingual side and to the head end.
  • section plane of the chalice shape is eccentric and it leaves a symmetric part in the join zone of the lengthened element 2.
  • the enlarged head 1 presents a spout or mouth shape.
  • the zone on the lingual side and/or eventually all the enlarged head are inclined in such a way that said zone on the lingual side of the enlarged head 1 presents an inclination between 15 and 30°.
  • the hollow on the lingual side is made of both a hollow and a U deformation of the enlarged head with a section view, as in Figure 19.
  • the palatine side of the enlarged head 2 presents a further superior hollow 201', that in the example of the Figures 17 to 27, is showed of inferior dimensions to the ones of the lingual hollow, but that can be of comparable or greater dimensions with respect to the hollow on the lingual side.
  • this embodiment in the joint zone to the lengthened element, provides for an initial widening on all the circumference and that can be symmetric or asymmetric, with particular reference to the palatine and lingual side.
  • said initial widening 401 extends with substantially the same curvature ray till an apex on the free end of the head 1'.
  • the widening 501 extends with an inverted curvature, which decline to said apex on the head end, giving a spout shape from a lateral point of view.
  • a projection is formed, which defines the hollow 201 in axial or front - posterior sense of the oral cavity.
  • the curved space degrading towards the apex, presents an inclined orientation, with respect to the occlusal plane with an angle between 15 and 30° preferably.
  • the enlarged head 1' is made of an annular element with rounded borders, that are bigger with respect to the middle zone than the lingual side and that, on the palatine side, present depressions making hollows 201 and 201'.
  • the enlarged head presents a flattened shape, perpendicular to the occlusal plane. In plan, said head can presents whatever circular, ovoidal or as a heart shape, or other shapes or stylised objects obviously compatible with its physiologic functions in the inventive area.
  • the enlarged and rounded border has a substantially toroidal shape.
  • said enlarged head according to this embodiment can be curved also to the transversal direction to the axis of the lengthened element 2 or front - posterior of the oral cavity.
  • the thickness of the enlarged border of the enlarged head can be constant for all the extension of the same or it can reduce to the apex of the free end with different courses.
  • the lingual side can present an inclination with respect to the occlusal plane between 15 and 30°. According to the shape of constant or tapered thickness, said inclination can be obtained with the inclination of the sole enlarged head and/or combination of the enlarged head and its lingual side.
  • the enlarged head according to this embodiment can be contemplated with one or whatever labial stimulation means according to the previous embodiment of the Figures 1 to 16 and 28 to 34 and with one or more combination, depending on the aimed effects.
  • the enlarged head according to the embodiment of Figures 17 to 27 can present one or more means that allow a lengthening of the lengthened element 2 under suction, namely substantially in front - posterior direction of the oral cavity.
  • said means can be provided for combined or not combined.
  • a possible embodiment of the enlarged head for the dummy and the teat, according to this invention, can contemplate a combination of two described embodiments, being the enlarged head according to the Figures 17 to 27 realised in a similar way to what described for the sector oriented to the tongue, while for the sector oriented to the palate, the enlarged head can present a construction as that of Figures 1 to 16. It is possible also an embodiment that contemplate an inverted conformation, being the enlarged head realised for the sector or side towards the tongue as the head 1 showed with reference to Figures 1 to 16, while the sector towards the palate is realised according to the embodiment of Figures 17 to 27. It is the same also for the supply holes disposition, that for the embodiment according to Figures 17 to 25 will be described in the following.
  • the invention provides for one or more supply holes 5', corresponding to the lateral walls restricting the inferior hollow 201.
  • the enlarged head according to Figures 17 to 27 and the eventual described versions present a previously flatted shape in a perpendicular direction to the occlusal plane, as in Figures 18 and 19. Thought this flatted shape of the enlarged head is described along with lengthened elements in section, substantially rounded, as well as with screen or terminal coupling 3 to substantially rotating symmetric containers, also these elements can present transversal sections not perfectly rounded and flatted, eventually in a similar way to the enlarged head 1 and 1', or in a different way, depending on the flattening direction.
  • the dummy or teat according to the invention can contemplate separately or along with all or part of the further previously described features stimulation means of elastic pliability of the breast around the nipple.
  • the pliability effect can be reached by said zone 103 with the terminal coupling 3 to the container.
  • the cushion 7 is made of a covering of soft and pliable material, corresponding to the natural breast, which is applied on the screen wall 4 towards the enlarged head 1, 1'.
  • Said cushion 7 can be full, as showed in Figure 26, or hollowed and closed on all the sides, as an annular bladder or a central pierced disc.
  • the cushion 7 can be made of several layers of material with different features and functions.
  • an external rubber or latex layer can be a protection or covering of one or more internal layers, that give the necessary elasticity features.
  • the disk bladder can be internally empty or full of gas, liquid or solid materials, that give the wanted elasticity, while the external covering is the container with protection function and eventually also a contribution to the elasticity.
  • the cushion 7 can be made of a piece, fixed to the shield 4 or the teat zone 103, or it can be made of a separated piece, which is fixed on the dummy shield 4 or on the zone of the teat terminal coupling 3, for example by a welding or any other chemical or physical adhesion or combination of said conditions.
  • the cushion 7 is removable and interchangeable.
  • the same presents a central piercing 107 thanks to which it is inserted on the lengthened element 2.
  • the central piercing can give a certain fixing force, thanks to a proper diameter dimension with respect to the diameter of the lengthened element with the elasticity deformability of the cushion 7 and the lengthened element 2.
  • the diameter of the piercing 107 is for example slightly minor than the external diameter of the lengthened element and, thanks to the elastic dilatation of the cushion and/or to the elastic compressibility of the enlarged head and of the lengthened element, it can overcome the head and can be coupled with said lengthened element with an elastic shrinkage.
  • a possible option for example can consist in a frame of rigid material, coupled in a fixed or removable way, as instance with a joint on the peripheral border of the cushion 7 and that presents complementary join means with joint seats, contemplated in coinciding points of the shield 4 or of the zone 103 of the terminal coupling 4 of the teat.
  • An example can be represented of hollows a projection or extensions with enlarged head that, thanks to their intrinsic elasticity, can be snapped with elastic shrinkage.
  • a rigid ring of coupling with the peripheral rigid frame of the cushion 7 can be contemplated also at the periphery of the shield or the terminal coupling 4 of the teat, being the rigid annular ring and the annular frame provided for complementary means of removable fixing of whatever kind.
  • a further choice can contemplate at the periphery of the cushion 7 an annular extension of elastic material, which creates an annular continuous or discontinuous engagement groove on the peripheral border of the shield 4.
  • the dimensions of said annular extension are slightly inferior than the ones of the shield 4, so that to generate an elastic force of said annular groove, which holds elastically the use condition thanks to the generation of an elastic force of radial return towards the central axis of the shield.
  • the cushion is made of a membrane as a little cap 8 with a central hole 108 and that, on the periphery, presents a rounded border 208, radial folding on the internal, with respect to the central axis of the little cap 8.
  • Said folding border 208 forms a peripheral groove, in which the peripheral border of the shield 4 of the dummy engages.
  • the cap is meant to remain separated from the facing side of the shield 4 and the requested elasticity for the elastic deformation, which simulates the pliability of the breast, is given by the features of deformability and elasticity of the material of the cap itself.
  • the central hole 108 can coupling for elastic shrinkage with the lengthened element 2.
  • the lengthened element 2 can present radial supporting shoulders of the hole zone separated from the shield 4, namely radial separation shoulders, that avoid the sliding of the soft cap towards the shield 4, during the push of the lips towards it.
  • said separation shoulders can be made of the terminal coupling 3' of the lengthened element 2 to the shield 4 of the dummy, that present an annular radial continuous or discontinuous thickening to the end of the lengthened element or in an established position in the terminal part of the same opposed to the enlarged head 1, 1'.
  • the cavity formed between the shield 4 and the cap 8 can be empty or completely or partially full of other soft material to calibrate in a more precise way the elastic pliability in axial sense of the cap 8 with a pressure towards the shield.
  • the cushion 7 comprises both an analogous rigid part as the shield 4 and a cap 8.
  • These walls can be realised similarly to what described with reference to the dummy of Figures 12 to 14 and 27.
  • the union of rigid wall of shield 9 and cap 8 with several versions above described presents a coincident central hole 109 and 108 for the engagement on the lengthened element of the side of the enlarged head 1, 1'.
  • the diameter of the holes 109 and 108 can be chosen slightly minor than the one of the lengthened element, guaranteeing a precise and steady removable position on the lengthened element 2 with elastic shrinkage.
  • the not described bushings can only lean against the facing side of the rigid wall 9 or of the cap 8, according to the fact that the separator bushing is combined with the cap 8 or the wall 9, or the side of head, free of the separator bushing, presents removable snap means with complementary means, contemplated on the rigid wall 9 or the cap 8 in a coincident axial position.
  • bushing head border can present an join axial continuous or discontinuous extension and of annular shape with enlarged head co-operating wall with annular axial continuous or discontinuous groove with section a projection.
  • the wall 9 and the cap 8 present at least a part of the separator bushing, being said bushings provided for removable axial coupling means.
  • Another variant is represented by the fact of steadily fixing, with a welding or chemical/physical adhesion, the separator bushing to the co-operating wall 9 and/or cap 8.
  • This engagement shoulder of position can be a shoulder contemplated both on the lengthened element and the terminal coupling.
  • An advantageous shape consists in using the zone 103 of the terminal coupling as an engagement position. In this case, the side of the shield wall 9 facing the terminal coupling 4 can be shaped as to complement the contact zone with the zone 103 or part of it of the terminal coupling 3 of the teat.
  • this one can contemplate the cavity between the cap 8 and the shield wall 9 full of material.
  • the cap 8 to the shield wall 9 can be associated a cushion 7, according to what above previously described or one or more variants of the same.
  • the cushion 7 or the element made of part of the shield 9 and the cap 8, or the cap 8 with the dummy can be steadily mounted on the teat or the dummy, or they can represent separated devices, that can be used with whatever shape of teat or dummy also of traditional and known kind, or however different from the described embodiments in the present description.
  • the cushion 7 and the shield wall 9, combined with the cap 8, or the union of the cap 8 with the shield 4 of the dummy present passing peripheral holes are already known for the shield of the dummy, but with the cushion 7 and the shield wall 8, or with the shield of the dummy 4 and the cap 8, can have the function of air escape holes, which contribute to a calibration of the elastic behaviour of the cushion and/or the cap 8.
  • the cushion 7 or the union of shield 4, 9 and cap is disposed according two different possibilities.
  • the cushion or at least the cap 8 and eventually also the shield wall 9 are disposed under the means or at least part of the combination of said means, that allow a lengthening of the lengthened element 2 under the suction, with reference to the direction of lengthening.
  • the lengthening of the lengthened element does not cause the shifting of the cushion 7 or of one or both the elements of the cap 8 and the shield wall 9 or it causes a partial or limited shifting with respect to the lengthening.
  • the second possibility provides that the cushion 7 and/or the cap 8 and/or the shield wall 9 are placed over the means or part of them, which allow the lengthening of the lengthened element and, therefore, said elements are shifted according to the function of the lengthening of the lengthened element under the suction.
  • the cushion 7, the cap 8 for the dummy or the element made of the shield wall 9 and the cap 8 can be contemplated in whatever combination or under combination with one or more described features for the dummy or the teat according to the present invention.
  • the devices of the dummy or the teat can be modified easily for the realisation of corrective devices of functional pathologies of the oral cavity or other organs, as malocclusions or something else, due to the use of traditional dummy or teat or real pathologies that are not due to behavioural causes.

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