The Kendall Company

Colgate Palmolive Company

William J Dunn

Brian H Silver

James P Cianci

Frank K Villari

Charles H Schaar

Kedar N Rustogi

Mark W Kolstedt

Jack D Merry

Carolyn M Semrow

Lucien M Rath

John J Donohue

Nicholas A Marra

A fluid sampling chamber assembly having a housing, a chamber within the housing for temporary storage of sample fluid and a pair of special sensor walls on opposite sides of the chamber for engagement by ultrasonic sensor probes. The sampling chamber is trough-shaped with an open top for both receipt and discharge of sample fluid. An inlet and outlet of the chamber housing are continuously open.

Sampling chamber assembly for in-line measurements of fluid within a

A fluid sampling chamber assembly for noninvasive sensing of a fluid having a chamber with a sensor wall for acoustic coupling therewith, an apparatus for coupling a transducer of a transducer assembly with the sensor wall, a preapplied acoustic coupling agent and a relatively rigid connector member mounted to the chamber around the sensor wall with a portion around a probe access opening in retentive overlying relationship with the acoustic coupling agent to prevent run off of the coupling agent before use. A cover is releasibly attached to the connector for protectively covering the access opening and sensor location. The cover permits gaseous sterilization of the sensor wall because ribs carried by the releasible attaching means block the releasible attaching means from making a gaseous tight seal with the connector. Insertion of the sampling chamber into a sensor location of an electronic biological fluid monitoring apparatus is prevented by a member attached to the cover which is dimensioned to prevent, or block, receipt of the sampling chamber assembly within the sensor location if the protective cover is attached to the probe connector.

Acoustic coupling assembly with retaining connector for noninvasive

A liquid drainage system comprising, a receptacle having a chamber to receive the liquid, and a support member adjacent an upper portion of the receptacle. The system has a support hook having an outwardly directed first bar, and a downwardly directed second bar extending from an outer portion of the first bar. The system has a device for pivotally connecting the hook to the support member such that the hook is movable between a first position generally perpendicular to the support member and a second position generally aligned with the support member.

Liquid drainage system having a hook support member

A front entry, flexible urinary collection bag with an inlet opening at a front wall thereof is connected with a fluid source through a rigid header attached to the flexible bag adjacent the inlet opening at the front of the bag and a fluid conductive connector held in coupling engagement by the header and having an elongate portion which makes fluid connection with the front of the bag through the inlet opening. The portion extends at an acute angle relative to the back of the bag when empty and makes connection with the front of the bag at a location laterally offset from the plane of symmetry, so that the back wall will not asymmetrically bulge away from the central plane of symmetry relative to the front of the bag. A front entry urinary collection bag adapted for automated urinary output monitoring is made by attaching a relatively rigid header to the top of the bag, attaching the inlet coupler to the front of the bag adjacent the top, inserting a male fluid conductive connector into mating relationship with a female connector carried by the header at the top of the bag and coupling a downwardly extending portion of the male connector to the inlet coupler.

Connection apparatus for side connection to fluid collection bag

A device for delivering an irrigant and/or a medicament fluid to the gingival sulcus comprises an elongated handle member terminating in a flexible tip portion provided with aperture(s), the tip being connected to a fluid reservoir via a conduit and operable to discharge the fluid through the apertures only on the application of pressure to the reservoir and/or opening of a normally closed valve or apertures in the tip by flexing the tip, e.g., by pressing same against a tooth. In preferred embodiments, the handle is tubular, the distal end portion thereof comprising the fluid reservoir.

Device for combined therapeutic and stimulative treatment of the gums

A temperature, pulse and respiration probe having a mouthpiece which fits over the patient's teeth and carries a thermistor for sensing the patient's temperature and a reflective photodetector for sensing both the patient's pulse and the patient's respiration. The reflective photodetector is mounted adjacent to a part of the interior surface of the patient's mouth which relatively rapidly, periodically changes its reflectivity due to the patient's pulse and which also relatively slowly, periodically changes its reflectivity due to the patient's respiration. The photodetector produces a single signal representative of both the relatively rapid and the relatively slower changes in the reflectivity corresponding to the patient's pulse and respiration rate, respectively. In one embodiment, all of these sensors are mounted to a portion of the mouthpiece adjacent the patient's inner gum. In another embodiment the sensors are mounted to a portion of the mouthpiece which underlies the patient's tongue. The patient's frenulum linguae is received within a notch in the underlying portion and the thermistor and photodetector are mounted at opposite sides of the notch.

Temperature, pulse and respiration mouthpiece probe

A liquid drainage system comprising, a receptacle having a chamber to receive the liquid, and a drainage tube communicating with the chamber. The system has a formed sheet of flexible material, with the sheet being of one-piece construction. The sheet has an elongated bar received in an upper portion of the receptacle, a first connecting portion extending from one side of the bar at a generally central location thereof, a first hinge extending across the sheet at an outer end of the first connecting portion, and a second elongated connecting portion extending from the first hinge on a side of the first hinge opposite the first connecting portion. The second connecting portion is flexed about the first hinge to align the first and second connecting portions in a facing relationship. The sheet has second and third hinges extending along opposed sides of the second connecting portion, and first and second hook members connected to the second and third hinges. The hook members have downwardly extending outer ends. The hook members are movable between a first position generally perpendicular to the receptacle to support the receptacle from an object, and a second position generally aligned with the receptacle with the outer ends of the hook members being located in front of the bar to form a handle to carry the receptacle.

Liquid drainage system with formed hinged support sheet

A scrub sponge comprising, a packet having a rupturable wall and a closed chamber containing a liquid scrub agent, and a cover of foam material having a cavity to receive the packet. The sponge has a puncture member intermediate the cover and the rupturable wall, with the puncture member having a projection facing toward the puncturable wall such that the projection pierces the puncturable wall when the puncture member is pressed toward the packet to release the scrub agent into the cover.

Scrub sponge

A urine meter comprising, a container having a cavity for collection of urine, and a drainage tube for draining urine from a patient. The meter has a receptacle having a chamber, with the drainage tube defining a port communicating with an upper portion of the receptacle for passage of urine into the chamber. The receptacle has a baffle extending across an upper portion of the receptacle below the drainage tube port and defining opening means permitting passage of urine from the drainage tube port into the chamber. The meter communicates between an upper portion of the receptacle and an upper portion of the container to permit passage of urine from the chamber to the cavity by tilting the receptacle while the baffle prevents passage of urine into the drainage tube.

Urine meter

A urine receptor comprising, a receptacle having a chamber to receive urine, and a valve assembly attached to a lower portion of the receptacle. The valve assembly is normally closed, and permits passage of urine through the valve assembly when a valve element of the assembly is pressed.

Urine receptor

A urine meter comprising, a container having a cavity for collection of urine, and a receptacle having a chamber to receive urine and being closed to the atmosphere in the receptacle. The meter communicates between an upper portion of the receptacle and an upper portion of the container, with a first channel for the passage of urine from the receptacle to the container and a second channel for the passage of air from the container to the receptacle.

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Libertyville, IL, United States of America

William J Dunn