RU190647U1 - ADAPTATION TO CLEAN THE HUMAN NOSE CAVITY FROM PHYSIOLOGICAL EXTRACT - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to the field of medicine, and more specifically to devices for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, which includes the device body having the outer layer, and can be used to more effectively remove physiological secretions from the nasal cavity. According to the utility model, the body has a conical shape and is provided with a holder, while the body of the device is made of a more rigid material than the outer layer. Technical result achieved - improved cleaning efficiency of the nasal cavity.

Description

The technical field to which the utility model

The invention relates to the field of medicine, and more specifically to devices for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, which includes the device body having the outer layer, and can be used to more effectively remove physiological secretions from the nasal cavity.

The level of technology.

There are many devices for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions. These can be various flagella for cleaning the nasal cavity of the child, handkerchiefs, cotton swabs and other similar solutions.

Disposable wipes, paper and rag handkerchiefs are effective when the discharge is not thick and the nose is not stuffed. After cleaning by sharply pushing air into the napkin, the discharge is trapped by the hair in the nose and creates residual moisture that must be removed by the next step of cleaning. The second stage is to clean the nose additionally, putting a napkin on the finger and turning it inside the nose to carry out additional cleaning. At the same time, the finger does not penetrate deep into the thin upper cavity of the nose and does not sufficiently clean it. If this is not done, the discharge turns into thick or dried deposits.

In addition, napkins and paper towels have a fairly smooth, albeit perforated surface, which partially captures and partially smears the discharge on the inner surface of the nose. Cotton handkerchiefs cope better with cleaning, but are reusable, so they do not contribute to comfort and prevent the spread of bacteria. With an active and prolonged coryza, the constant use of these products leads to redness and irritation of the nose outside. Therefore, paper handkerchiefs are made as soft as possible.

Cotton swabs have a very small contact surface, and due to the slipperiness of the fibers, the secretions inside the nose are smeared. This leads cotton buds to their repeated and inefficient use. They are made from difficult to decompose polymeric materials. Cotton wool from natural materials copes with cleaning the nose, it requires the formation of a flagellum of indefinite shape and size with fingers.

Using tap water is justified for environmental and hygienic reasons, but it has the same cleaning quality deficiencies as wipes, namely, water leaves the inside of the nose moist and requires the use of a towel to dry the inside and outside of the nose. As a result, additional internal cleaning of the nose is required. With a long runny nose, you often have to wipe your nose with a towel outside, which causes redness and irritation of the nose outside, which means you will need to buy ointments or cream to eliminate the effects of nose irritation.

Various saline solutions injected into the nose are designed to soften the discharge and cause sneezing, i.e. spread of bacteria by airborne droplets. It is necessary to deduce discharge with a sucking “pear”, and then again with cotton or paper flagella, which are molded by the fingers.

Thus, a common drawback of known common means is the low cleaning efficiency of the nasal cavity, since the necessary surface contact between the device and the inner surface of the nasal cavity, as well as the necessary rigidity of the device itself is missing.

Known from the prior art device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, which includes the body of the device having the outer layer described in the patent of Russian Federation №171952, published in 2017. It uses a cotton flagellum turunda as the body, and a spiral winding made on the outer surface of the cotton flagelet turunda as a fabric thread as the outer layer.

This prior art is the closest in technical essence to the claimed utility model and taken as a prototype to the proposed utility model.

The disadvantage of this prototype is the low efficiency of cleaning the nasal cavity. Indeed, there is also a lack of the necessary surface contact between the device and the inner surface of the nasal cavity, since there is no necessary rigidity of the device itself.

Another disadvantage of this device is its lack of environmental friendliness, since it is made of materials that do not dissolve in water.

Disclosure of the utility model.

Based on this original observation, this utility model is mainly intended to offer a device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, which includes the body of the device, which has an outer layer that allows at least one of the above disadvantages to be smoothed out. Namely, to provide an improvement in the efficiency of nasal cavity cleaning, which is the stated technical task of the utility model.

To achieve this goal, the body has a conical shape and is equipped with a holder, while the body of the device is made of a more rigid material than the outer layer.

Thanks to this advantageous characteristic, it becomes possible to improve the cleaning efficiency of the nasal cavity, since the shape of the device repeats the anatomical shape of the nasal cavity, which is a cone, and the body of the device is made of a more rigid material than the outer layer, which allows you to maintain shape and ensure that the cone turns around its axis to ensure reliable adhesion with the inner surface of the nasal cavity. Due to such advantageous characteristics as the presence of the holder, it becomes possible to improve the usability of this device, since it becomes possible to hold it comfortably with your hand and rotate it when using. At the same time, due to this, the efficiency of cleaning the nasal cavity is also improved.

There is an advantageous variant of the utility model in which the outer layer is made of paper.

Thanks to this advantageous characteristic, it is possible to ensure effective cleaning due to the absorbing properties of the paper.

There is also such a predominant variant of the utility model in which the outer layer has a corrugated surface.

Thanks to this advantageous characteristic, it is possible to ensure and further improve the cleaning efficiency due to irregularities and the presence of protruding sections on the external surface of the device.

There is an alternative utility model in which the outer layer has a rough and / or embossed surface.

Thanks to this advantageous characteristic, it is possible to further increase the cleaning efficiency due to irregularities and the presence of cavities on the external surface of the device.

There is another advantageous variant of the utility model in which the outer layer has protrusions on the outer surface, forming a spiral.

Thanks to this advantageous characteristic, it becomes possible to further improve the cleaning efficiency due to spiral protrusions, which, when the device rotates, allow reliable contact with any unwanted objects located inside the nasal cavity.

There is another advantageous variant of the utility model in which the outer layer is made softer on the edge of the device.

Thanks to this advantageous characteristic, it is possible to reduce the possible painful effects when using this device, and possible trauma, since it is in the upper part that the nasal cavity has areas that are most penetrated by blood vessels and can be easily injured.

There is also such an advantageous variant of the utility model in which the body of the device is made of thick paper.

Thanks to this advantageous characteristic, it becomes possible to simply manufacture the device, as thick paper (cardboard) holds its shape well, and at the same time is an affordable material.

There is also a predominant version of the utility model, in which the device is made of materials that dissolve in water.

Thanks to this advantageous characteristic, it becomes possible to improve the environmental friendliness of the device, since it is completely decomposed in water during disposal.

There is another possible variant of the utility model, in which the body of the device is made in the form of a truncated cone.

Thanks to this advantageous characteristic, it also becomes possible to reduce possible painful effects when using this device, and possible trauma, since it is in the upper part that the nasal cavity has the areas most penetrated by blood vessels.

There is also an advantageous variant of the utility model in which the body of the device has a cross section in the form of a polygon.

Thanks to this advantageous characteristic, it is possible to improve the cleaning efficiency of the nasal cavity, as additional stiffening ribs appear that improve adhesion with unwanted objects that require removal.

The set of essential features of the proposed utility model is unknown in the prior art for devices of similar purpose, which allows to conclude that the criterion "novelty" for the utility model.

Brief description of the drawings.

Other distinctive features and advantages of the utility model clearly follow from the description below for illustration and not being restrictive, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

- figure 1 schematically depicts the appearance of the device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, the embodiment of the outer layer in the form of a simple smooth cone, side view;

- figure 2 schematically depicts a side section of a device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, an embodiment of the outer layer in the form of a simple smooth cone;

- figure 3 schematically depicts a top view of the device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, an embodiment of the outer layer in the form of a simple smooth cone;

- figure 4 schematically depicts a bottom view of the device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, an embodiment of the outer layer in the form of a simple smooth cone;

- figure 5 schematically depicts the appearance of the device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, the embodiment of the outer layer in the form of a corrugated cone, side view;

- figure 6 schematically depicts a side section of a device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, an embodiment of the outer layer in the form of a corrugated cone;

- figure 7 schematically depicts a top view of a device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, an embodiment of the outer layer in the form of a corrugated cone;

- figure 8 schematically depicts the appearance of the device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, the embodiment of the outer layer in the form of a cone having spiral protrusions, side view;

- figure 9 schematically depicts a side section of a device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, an embodiment of the outer layer in the form of a cone having helical protrusions;

- figure 10 schematically depicts a top view of a device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, an embodiment of the outer layer in the form of a cone having helical protrusions;

- figure 11 schematically depicts a bottom view of the device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, an embodiment of the outer layer in the form of a cone having helical protrusions;

- figure 12 schematically depicts the appearance of a device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, an embodiment of a body having a base of a cone in the form of a cylinder, side view;

- figure 13 schematically depicts a side section of a device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, an embodiment of a body having a cone base;

- figure 14 schematically depicts a top view of a device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, an embodiment of a body having a cone base;

- figure 15 schematically depicts a bottom view of the device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, an embodiment of the body having a base of a cone;

- figure 16 schematically depicts a side section of a device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, an embodiment of a side holder, which is a continuation of the body of the device;

- figure 17 schematically depicts a side view of a device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, an embodiment of a side holder, which is a continuation of the body of the device;

- figure 18 schematically depicts a bottom view of the device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, according to the utility model, an embodiment of the side holder, which is a continuation of the body of the device.

According to figures 1-18, a device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions includes a device body 1 having an outer layer 2. The body 1 has a conical shape and is provided with a holder 3, while the device body 1 is made of a more rigid material than the outer layer 2

The conical shape is selected from the anatomical features of the structure of the nasal cavity.

The outer layer 2 is made soft, can be made from any cleaning material:

a) paper

b) fabrics (for example, gauze),

c) cotton wool

d) sterile materials.

Mostly the outer layer is made of paper. In this case, the paper coating may be:

a) smooth from embossed paper,

b) corrugated paper with and without embossing,

c) from several layers of paper

d) from paper of various density,

e) from paper of various degrees of wetting (moisture absorption),

e) from paper with the property to decompose in water.

Advantageously, the outer layer has a corrugated and rough surface. In this case, the corrugation of the outer layer of paper can be

a) longitudinal (from the top to the base of the cone),

b) transverse (circular rings),

c) spiral,

d) discontinuous (gaps are created in the protruding part of the corrugations).

Optionally, the outer layer 2 is made softer on the edge of the device.

The body of fixture 1 can be

a) hollow inside

b) whole inside

c) with stiffeners inside.

The body of the device 1 may have dimensions in length and width (diameter)

a) standardized (universal),

b) individual, corresponding to the size of the nasal cavity of different categories of people (for example, adults and children).

The body of the device 1 may be in cross section and at the base of the form

a) a circle

b) oval,

c) a polygon.

The body of the fixture can be made from

a) thick paper

b) cardboard

c) paper, which has the property of dissolving in water,

g) cardboard, which has the property of dissolving in water,

e) plastic (plastics).

Optionally, the body of the device 1 is made in the form of a truncated cone.

The body of the device 1 has a holder 3. The base of the body and / or the holder can be a disk shape and be made of

a) thick paper

b) thin cardboard

c) paper, which has the property of dissolving in water,

g) cardboard, which has the property of dissolving in water,

e) plastic (plastics).

The base of the body 4 can be shaped

a) a cone, like the body itself,

b) cylinder,

c) reverse truncated cone,

d) disk

e) a concave or curved disc.

The base of the body 4 can have a size (diameter)

a) more cone base (works as a stop)

b) the same as the body,

c) less than the diameter of the base of the cone to glue into the body.

The base of the body 4 with the holder 3 can be

a) cast (molded) together with the body,

b) a separate part.

Holder 3 may be shaped

a) parallelepiped,

b) a polyhedron,

c) cylinder (rod).

Holder 3 may have a surface texture

a) smooth

b) embossed,

c) corrugated.

Holder 3 can be

a) cast (molded) together with the base of the body,

b) a separate part.

Implementation of the utility model.

A device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions is used as follows (A non-limiting example of the use of the utility model is given).

Stage A1. Take the proposed device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions from the package for the holder 3.

Stage A2. Insert the proposed device into the nostril to the desired depth.

Stage A3. Turn it a quarter-half-turn around the axis in one direction and the other.

Stage A4. Pull out the proposed fixture.

Stage A5. Throw the proposed device in the trash or toilet.

The fingers do not touch the working surface of the device and the nose itself - this ensures the bacteriological safety of the user.

Industrial Applicability.

A device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions can be carried out by an expert in practice and, when exercising, ensures the realization of the stated purpose. The possibility of practicing by a specialist in practice follows from the fact that for each attribute included in the formula of a utility model based on the description, a material equivalent is known, which allows to conclude that the criterion "industrial applicability" for the utility model and the criterion "completeness of disclosure" for the utility model .

In accordance with the proposed utility model, the applicant manufactured a prototype of the proposed device from paper of various densities (the body and the holder of cardboard, the outer layer of toilet paper).

The trial operation of the proposed device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions showed that

the rough and embossed surface of the paper of the outer layer well captures the discharge of different density;

the ability of the device to absorb the liquid fraction faster thicker, without getting wet and destruction due to high density and surface tension of secretions;

it became possible to form a corrugated surface to reduce the surface rigidity of the structure and improve the quality of capture and retention of high-density precipitates;

it provides harmlessness to the nasal mucosa when using the device.

All this, ultimately, ensures the implementation of the achieved technical result - improving the efficiency of cleaning the nasal cavity.

Additionally, it was found that

ease of manufacture is provided;

it is possible to manufacture devices from paper of various layers, density, softness, absorbency, aromatization, size. Those. it is possible to satisfy the demand for different categories of the population: from children to adults, from sick to elderly;

manifested ability to decompose in water.

In addition, a device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions:

is a finished product, convenient for one-time use, you do not need to do anything yourself;

fully protects the user from bacterial and viral infection and does not pass it on;

can be completely made from environmentally friendly natural renewable materials;

can be completely decomposed in water and easily disposed of without polluting the environment;

can be molded of any size and with different consumer characteristics for all types of nose;

suitable for both private consumers and medical and other institutions;

convenient for home use and disposal, while in the bathroom.

It is recommended to use a device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions.

at a cold for preliminary deep and high-quality cleaning of the nose before instillation or injection into the nose of medicines;

with nasal congestion and the inability to exhale air through the nose, that is, when it is impossible to use tissue for nose, napkins and other means;

for deep cleaning of the nose before the examination by a doctor, or before medical procedures;

for better cleaning of the nose after or instead of using traditional means such as: napkins, handkerchiefs;

as a replacement of cotton swabs (with plastic tubes) with a more efficient and environmentally friendly product;

for high-quality cleaning of the nose for children and patients who are not able to clean their nose for reasons of inoperable hands or inadequate breathing through the nose;

if necessary, lubrication of the nasal cavity with drugs and simultaneous removal of secretions;

for ease of use by medical personnel;

for high-quality cleaning of the nose in hazardous industries;

for the safe disposal of nasal cleaners in the form of materials that are readily degradable and renewable by nature and are being used everywhere.

Claims (10)

1. A device for cleansing the human nasal cavity from physiological secretions, which includes the body of the device, having an outer layer, characterized in that the body has a conical shape and is equipped with a holder, while the body of the device is made of a more rigid material than the outer layer, and the layer is made of paper that has protruding portions on the outer surface. 2. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the protruding areas on the outer surface form a corrugated surface. 3. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the protruding areas on the outer surface form a rough surface. 4. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the protruding areas on the outer surface form an embossed surface. 5. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the protruding areas on the outer surface are made in the form of protrusions on the outer surface, forming a spiral. 6. The device according to claim 1, characterized in that the outer layer is made softer on the edge of the device. 7. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the body of the device is made of thick paper. 8. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the device is made of materials that dissolve in water. 9. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the body of the device is made in the form of a truncated cone. 10. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the body of the device has a cross section in the form of a polygon.

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