Teledyne Industries, Inc.

John W Baum

Gary Thomas

James M Jennings

Len Haferman

Anna J Russell

James Hickman

A barrel serves as a reservoir in which a treatment fluid is to be contained and within which barrel is a slideable plunger. A connector at one end of the barrel is receptive to attachment of a cannula. Another connector is located at the other end of the barrel. A housing has a coupling attachable to that other connector. On the housing is a detachable fitting receptive of a hose which delivers air under pressure. Included in the housing is an adjustable air pressure regulator in an air flow path between the detachable fitting and the coupling with the regulator being selectively adjustable to control the flow of the air in that path. Associated with the irrigator is a container for the treatment fluid and which includes a pump sealingly attachable to the one end of the barrel for delivering the fluid into the reservoir in response to movement of the barrel.

Subgingival irrigator

For use with an oral irrigating appliance which provides a series of pulses of fluid through a flexible hose to a user-held handle, a subgingival delivery tip is in the form of an elongated hollow shank with a knob at one end thereof. Formed at the other end of the shank is an in-turned constriction which defines a passage more narrow than the inner width of the shank. A probe of resilient material has an outer cone-shaped portion projecting away from and with its base seated adjacent to the outer end of the constriction. That probe also has a necked-down central portion continuing centrally from its base through the passage and continuing into an enlarged button-shaped inner portion on the inner end of that central portion with that inner portion being received within the shank in a position seated adjacent to the innermost end of the passage. A channel is pierced centrally through the entirety of all of the different portions of the probe.

Subgingival delivery tip

An irrigation appliance uses a reservoir which inverts to form a cover and includes a simplified valve in the reservoir as well as a switching mechanism adapted thereto. Liquid delivered to the unit from the reservoir is controlled as to pressure by adjustment on a hand-held device remote from the unit. In the base unit are elements which regulate forward and backward flow in order to obtain outlet pressure control.

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Fort Collins, CO, United States of America

John W Baum