Mouthpiece for breathing apparatus
5 claims: 2 independent, 3 dependent
- 1What we claim is:1. In a breathing apparatus of the open cycle type comprising a mouthpiece means connected by an inhalation air hose to a demand air regulator particularly of the injection type and connected by an expiration air hose to an exhaust valve, the improvement comprising said mouthpiece means being integrally formed as a T-pipe junction forming inhalation and expiration conduits, said inhalation and expiration conduits being aligned and connected to form opposed branches of said T-pipe junction means, the third branch of said T-pipe junction forming a common mouthpiece conduit of said T-pipe junction, and a deflector means being positioned transversely of substantially the whole cross-section of the conduit and 45 extending between said inhalation and expiration conduits to direct air flow from the inhalation conduit toward the mouthpiece conduit and permit the escape of air from said mouthpiece conduit to said expiration conduit.
- 58,154 Great Britain___________________1907 288,430 Germany______________Nov. 1, 1915 733,473 Great Britain__________July 13, 1955
Independent claims2
6 paragraphs in 1 section, as filed
Sept. 8, 1964 j. γ. cousteau etal 3,147,752
MOUTHPIECE FOR BREATHING APPARATUS
Filed Oct. 28, 1960
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United States Patent Office <sub>PatOTted</sub> branches of the mouthpiece 1, 2 are connected by expiration hose 5 to an air regulator 20 which in turn is connected by a tube 22 to a primary air regulator or a pressurized air tank, not shown, an inhalation hose 4 joins the other branch of the mouthpiece 1, 2 to regulator 20. The expiration valve 26 located in close proximity to the diaphragm of regulator 20 functions as is described in U.S. Patent Number 2,875,756.
The mouthpiece of this invention illustrated in FIGS. 2 to 4 inclusive comprises a cylindrical casing 1, laterally connected to the mouth conduit 2 provided with rubber parts 3 to facilitate its holding by the user’s teeth. This mouthpiece is connected to the demand regulator through a rubber inhalation hose, whose end 4 is shown on the 15 figures of the drawing, and to the expiration valve through a rubber flexible expiration hose. A deflector 6 such as a bent baffle-plate fitted tangentially to the inside wall of said cylindrical casing or a straight thinwalled baffle-plate or a wedge type deflector, directs the flow of inhaled air to the user’s mouth, as shown by the continuous line arrow. This deflector may possibly be supported by an inner sleeve 7, as shown in FIG. 3. The breathed out air flows to the expiration hose as shown by the dotted line arrow. Said deflector may also not occupy the whole cross-section area of casing 1; as shown in FIG. 4, some distance can be provided between the end of the deflector and the end of the mouth conduit, so long as this distance is small enough not to impair the deflection of the air flow.
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Priority claims1
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| 3147752X | France | A |
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Numbers
- Application
- 65729
Titles
- English
- Mouthpiece for breathing apparatus
Classification
- CPC, 1
- B63C11/2227
- IPC, 1
- B63C11 22
