EP1532957A1 - Sauger für Säuglingsflasche - Google Patents

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EP1532957A1
EP1532957A1 EP04447249A EP04447249A EP1532957A1 EP 1532957 A1 EP1532957 A1 EP 1532957A1 EP 04447249 A EP04447249 A EP 04447249A EP 04447249 A EP04447249 A EP 04447249A EP 1532957 A1 EP1532957 A1 EP 1532957A1
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Jean-Pierre Van Camp
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Belgian Diagnostic Co SA
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    • 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
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  • the present invention relates, in a manner generally, a pacifier intended to be adapted to a container.
  • the invention relates to a pacifier for infant intended to be adapted on a container such as a bottle body, of the type comprising a pacifier body substantially cupular whose free peripheral edge is solidary and surrounded by a protruding radial collar, the body extending axially and externally by a hollow tubular end ending with a free open end, said nipple being separated internally in two compartments by a partition transverse pierced with at least one orifice of distribution of liquid and located on the one hand between and including the birth of the mouthpiece and secondly the end of it.
  • the soft palate that separates the oral cavity from the nasal cavity during sucking, helps to create a vacuum. If it remains an opening between these cavities, this void can not be obtained, which significantly decreases the power suction.
  • Breastfeeding may be attempted when Palatine plaque is posed contributing to create this void but in many cases it is necessary to use bottle feeding by making use of a nipple specially designed for these cases infirmity.
  • a pacifier comprising a tubular element, one of which closed end is pierced with a hole liquid distribution, this tubular element being provided on its underside with a beak-shaped shield of duck intended to close the palate of the infant.
  • pacifiers are likely to have disadvantages, in particular because of possibilities of injury that they could cause following the presence of such platelets in the cavity mouth of the child.
  • Pacifiers whose cupular body extends by a tip are also known.
  • a pacifier having a mouthpiece fully open at its end and whose outer and inner faces come respectively, of a cylinder and a truncated cone.
  • a concave transverse wall pierced by a orifice separates this tip from the body of the pacifier.
  • a pacifier equipped with a tubular tip whose end free, partially open, curls towards the interior while a transverse partition, pierced of at least one orifice, is at the birth of this tip.
  • the present invention aims to propose a pacifier adapted to be adapted to a container, generally bottle-like body, which allows for to overcome the disadvantages of the state of the art.
  • the pacifier body usually of shape conventional, corresponds, preferably to a body of annular revolution, of cupular profile, whose domed central portion extends axially towards outside by the tubular end.
  • this cupular body is provided with level of its free end, a radial collar able to ensure the installation of the pacifier on the neck of a wide-mouthed container such as a baby bottle, this pacifier being maintained further on this cervix by a means retaining ring, for example a screw clamping ring, a elastic ring, a split ring or any other analogous device.
  • a means retaining ring for example a screw clamping ring, a elastic ring, a split ring or any other analogous device.
  • the face of the collar in view of the tubular tip, is provided with a rib ring extending along its free edge to ensure increased sealing by crushing when placing the pacifier on the container.
  • the tubular tip, part of the pacifier according to the invention usually takes birth substantially at the level of the domed central portion of the pacifier body.
  • This tubular tip has an inner face and an external face whose profiles correspond generally to cylinders and / or truncated cones of revolution revolving around the axis of revolution of the nipple.
  • the profile of the inner and outer faces of the tubular tip comes from cylinders and / or cones truncated coaxial.
  • the profile of the inner face of the tip until its open free end comes from of a first cylinder and the profile of the outer face this tip comes from a second cylinder or a truncated cone, one or the other coaxial to the first cylinder.
  • the profile of this outer wall is partially cylindrical or partially frustoconical because interrupted by the birth of the annular bead.
  • the internal face can adopt a frustoconical profile while the outer face can be cylindrical profile, the latter being interrupted by the birth of the annular bead.
  • profile frustoconical we mean above a profile either slightly tapered, slightly widened towards the free end of the tip.
  • this tubular tip depends in particular the morphology of the infant intended for receive the pacifier but will usually be of the order from 10 to 15 mm from the transverse wall.
  • the annular bead is located at the top the tubular tip, that is to say in the part close to its free end.
  • This bead has the particular effect to substantially reproduce the characteristics functional natural breast breast and to help maintaining the tip against the dorsal surface of the tongue of the infant during feeding.
  • the transverse partition for its part, is preference to the birth of the tubular endpiece and has two plane faces preferentially parallel.
  • this partition cross-section is pierced by at least one orifice liquid distribution.
  • this orifice consists of a hole, advantageously in the form of a truncated cone, whose opening opposite the body of nipple is less important than that turned towards the tubular tip or, in other words, whose the widest opening is directed inwards of the tubular tip.
  • the orifice may take the form of a V-shaped slot with a truncated tip, the opening facing of the pacifier body being weaker than that oriented towards the tubular endpiece or, in other words, the widest opening is directed inwards of the tubular tip.
  • Such orifice configurations essentially the frustoconical configuration, allow both a better dispersion of the liquid passing from the pacifier body to the tip and, in the case of non-use, a balance of pressures in the nipple body and in the tip.
  • the pacifier body can, if necessary, be provided with markers each corresponding to a position of this slot
  • the pacifier according to the invention usually molding for example by injection. It can be made in one piece from one or more natural elastomeric materials or synthetic.
  • deformable materials will offer both flexibility and strength while being physiologically acceptable in that they will be compatible with a food contact and devoid of toxicity.
  • elastomer preferred is a styrene - ethylene - butylene copolymer - styrene (“SEBS”) meeting the above qualities.
  • SEBS styrene - ethylene - butylene copolymer - styrene
  • the pacifier according to the invention is usually found use in infants with cleft palate but also in young children experiencing difficulties during breastfeeding maternal to bottle-feeding because of in particular an insufficient sucking force.
  • the liquid food, passing through this pacifier, may be spilled behind the oral cavity avoiding, in this way, opportunities for Regurgitation through the nasal cavity in children cleft palate.
  • the presence annular bead at the tip will contribute effectively to the maintenance of this mouthpiece against the dorsal side of the infant's tongue when feeding.
  • the pacifier according to the invention will replace, for advantageously, the conventional pacifier unable to perform all the duties listed above.
  • this nipple of the invention simple and non-traumatic design because it lacks insert molded or reported, but provided with a annular bead will be able to offer, at the infant, the comfort needed during feeding.
  • the one-piece molded nipple made of soft elastomer usually copolymer - styrene - ethylene - butylene - styrene ("SEBS") designated in its together by the reference 1, namely a body 2 of substantially cupular pacifier whose central part curved extends axially outward of this body by a tubular end 3 ending in a open end.
  • SEBS copolymer - styrene - ethylene - butylene - styrene
  • the nipple body 2 at its edge free device, is interdependent and surrounded by a radial flange 4, protruding outwards and oriented perpendicular to the axis of revolution of the nipple.
  • the face of this collar in the direction of the tip 3, is provided along its outer edge of an annular rib 5 while the opposite face is a flat bearing surface intended to be applied against the bearing face, facing, of a kind container baby bottle.
  • the tip 3 takes birth substantially at the level of the domed part of the nipple body which extends externally inner and outer faces of the wall.
  • inner face of this tubular tip is shaped cylindrical while the outer face, substantially frustoconical, is slightly tapered towards the free end of this mouthpiece outside the body of nipple.
  • the thickness of the walls of the nipple body and its tubular tip is usually of the order of mm except at the top of the mouthpiece, close to its free end, where one notices the presence of a annular bead 6.
  • This annular bead which extends outwardly and radially, is in profile softly rounded so as to mimic characteristics of the maternal breast.
  • Figure 1 also shows a partition transverse 7 located substantially at the birth of the tubular tip and internally dividing the pacifier 1 in two separate compartments. This partition is usually a little less than mm.
  • an orifice is formed in the transverse partition 7 consisting of a frustoconical hole 8, visible at the figure 2.
  • the nipple 1, used in this implementation comprises an orifice 8 which, in variant, is a slot in the form a truncated point V with the widest opening is directed towards the inside of the tubular nozzle 3.
  • the pacifier body 2 is provided with markers 9, here in the form of lines, corresponding each at a position of the orifice 8 so as to cause gradual opening and a variable flow of liquid.
  • This setting up usually requires a retaining ring 10 intermediate, visible in the figure 4.
  • This ring made for example of a material thermoplastic, is cylindrical in shape and in its inner side skirt 11 a tapping suitable for cooperate with the thread of the neck 12 of the bottle and, its opposite end to this bottle neck, a bottom 13, established in annular form for commitment around the pacifier body 2, at the level of the collar 4.
  • the nipple 1 is first engaged by its tubular end 3 and then by its cupular body 2, in the central passage managed in the retaining ring 10 until the flange 4, by its ribbed face, comes to bear against the inner face of the annular bottom 13 of the ring restraint.
  • This retaining ring 10 is then tightened, by screwing on the neck 12 of the bottle until contact waterproof at the same time of the ribbed face of the collar 4 against the inner face of the annular bottom 13 and the bearing face of this flange 4 against the edge circular collar 12 bottle.
  • This seal is further reinforced by the crushing of the rib 5 against the inner face of the ring bottom 13.

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BE2003/0621A BE1015792A5 (fr) 2003-11-19 2003-11-19 Tetine de biberon.

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CN102056582A (zh) * 2008-06-12 2011-05-11 美德乐控股公司 抽吸奶嘴单元

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US981072A (en) 1909-09-28 1911-01-10 William More Decker Nursing-nipple.
US1012980A (en) 1911-02-23 1911-12-26 Truman W Brophy Artificial palate.
US2805663A (en) * 1954-11-19 1957-09-10 Harry K Robinson Dispensing device
FR1385450A (fr) 1963-10-28 1965-01-15 Verreries Reunies De Normandie Tétine pour nourrisson ayant un palais défectueux
US3924620A (en) * 1973-11-05 1975-12-09 Alpha Bebe Sante Zone Ind Feeding device with regulable flow
US4632263A (en) 1985-01-30 1986-12-30 Gertzman Gloria B Nipple for a baby who has a cleft in its hard palate
US4856663A (en) 1988-04-19 1989-08-15 Lyda Epp Nursing device for infant with cleft lip or cleft palate
GB2226014A (en) 1988-12-15 1990-06-20 Jex Co Ltd Nipple for nursing bottles
EP0496892A1 (de) * 1990-08-20 1992-08-05 Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Sauger für säuglingsflasche
DE19520540A1 (de) * 1995-06-03 1996-12-05 Mapa Gmbh Gummi Plastikwerke Verfahren zum Herstellen eines Saugers für Befestigung an Flaschen
US6343704B1 (en) 1999-10-02 2002-02-05 John Gilbert Prentiss Infant feeding nipple

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US981072A (en) 1909-09-28 1911-01-10 William More Decker Nursing-nipple.
US1012980A (en) 1911-02-23 1911-12-26 Truman W Brophy Artificial palate.
US2805663A (en) * 1954-11-19 1957-09-10 Harry K Robinson Dispensing device
FR1385450A (fr) 1963-10-28 1965-01-15 Verreries Reunies De Normandie Tétine pour nourrisson ayant un palais défectueux
US3924620A (en) * 1973-11-05 1975-12-09 Alpha Bebe Sante Zone Ind Feeding device with regulable flow
US4632263A (en) 1985-01-30 1986-12-30 Gertzman Gloria B Nipple for a baby who has a cleft in its hard palate
US4856663A (en) 1988-04-19 1989-08-15 Lyda Epp Nursing device for infant with cleft lip or cleft palate
GB2226014A (en) 1988-12-15 1990-06-20 Jex Co Ltd Nipple for nursing bottles
EP0496892A1 (de) * 1990-08-20 1992-08-05 Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Sauger für säuglingsflasche
DE19520540A1 (de) * 1995-06-03 1996-12-05 Mapa Gmbh Gummi Plastikwerke Verfahren zum Herstellen eines Saugers für Befestigung an Flaschen
US6343704B1 (en) 1999-10-02 2002-02-05 John Gilbert Prentiss Infant feeding nipple

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
CN102056582A (zh) * 2008-06-12 2011-05-11 美德乐控股公司 抽吸奶嘴单元
CN102056582B (zh) * 2008-06-12 2013-12-18 美德乐控股公司 抽吸奶嘴单元

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PT1532957E (pt) 2007-07-03

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