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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Simon Neame, Broadstairs, GB;
Assignee:
Smiths Industries Public Limited Company, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/600 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/600 ;
Abstract
An obturator for a tracheostomy tube has a strap extending along its length between a nose at its patient end and a machine end with clips that fasten to a coupling on the tube. The strap has one web extending along its entire length and a second web extending orthogonally on one side of the first web to form a T shape section along the major part of the strap towards its patient end. This makes the patient end of the strap relatively rigid whilst its machine end is relatively flexible to enable the machine end to be twisted to release the engagement of the clips and to enable the obturator to be pulled out of the tube.