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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
May. 30, 2014
Medline Industries, Inc., Mundelein, IL (US);
Michael Kobida, Barrington, IL (US);
Michael Turturro, Chicago, IL (US);
Medline Industries, Inc., Northfield, IL (US);
Abstract
A medical personal-services suction handle includes a hand-graspable housing and a primary suction pathway disposed through the hand-graspable housing and having a suction line port at one end and an intake port at an opposing end thereof. An on/off valve disposed at least partially within the primary suction pathway has a user-manipulable interface by which the on/off valve selectively opens the primary suction pathway and occludes the primary suction pathway. A user-engageable pneumatic pathway serves, when selectively engaged, to pneumatically couple the primary suction pathway to a secondary external port in the hand-graspable housing such that suction is applied via the primary suction pathway to both the intake port and the secondary external port. By one approach the secondary external port comprises a thumb-control port.