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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2004
Filed:
Jul. 23, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Medic-Aid Limited, Southhampton, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 1/500 ;
Abstract
A combination mouthpiece for inhalation therapy devices, having a body ( ) defining an aerosol duct ( ) through which, in use, a stream of air carrying an aerosolized drug is supplied to a patient during inspiration, an inlet hole ( ) through the body for receiving in a releasable and secure manner an oxygen tube adapter ( ), characterised by at least one partition ( ) within the body ( ) defining at least one oxygen duct ( ), the oxygen duct being in a form such that it extends generally parallel with the aerosol duct ( ) and has a flow cross-section sized in order to guide a suitably large oxygen stream from the oxygen tube adapter ( ) through the inlet hole ( ) to the patient.