The Boc Group, Inc.

Stuart C Leach

Robert A Heaton

Joseph Hancock

Neil A Sandy

An anaesthetic vaporizer includes a passageway 10, 30 for directing carrier gas through a fixed laminar restrictor 32 to a vaporizing chamber 26. Liquid anaesthetic agent is injected into the vaporizing chamber 26 from a constant level tank 12 the output of which is controlled by a laminar control valve 28. Liquid anaesthetic agent flow is determined by the pressure of carrier gas in the passageway 10, 30 and the setting of the liquid laminar control valve 28.

Anaesthetic vaporizer having a pressure sensitive diaphragm connecting

An anaesthetic vaporiser 1 the by-pass type includes a thermally responsive valve 52 in its second by-pass stream which valve 52 is located immediately below the sump 12 of the vaporiser. This offers the advantage that any difference in temperature between the valve 52 and liquid anaesthetic contained in the sump 12 is very small even when the liquid anaesthetic temperature is changing rapidly. Furthermore, the valve 52 is readily accessible for maintenance and calibration.

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Ilkley, United Kingdom

Stuart C Leach