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US3923061A
US3923061A US520954A US52095474A US3923061A US 3923061 A US3923061 A US 3923061A US 520954 A US520954 A US 520954A US 52095474 A US52095474 A US 52095474A US 3923061 A US3923061 A US 3923061A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F13/00—Bandages or dressings; Absorbent pads
    • A61F13/15—Absorbent pads, e.g. sanitary towels, swabs or tampons for external or internal application to the body; Supporting or fastening means therefor; Tampon applicators
    • A61F13/38—Swabs having a stick-type handle, e.g. cotton tips
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
    • A47K7/00—Body washing or cleaning implements
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F11/00—Methods or devices for treatment of the ears or hearing sense; Non-electric hearing aids; Methods or devices for enabling ear patients to achieve auditory perception through physiological senses other than hearing sense; Protective devices for the ears, carried on the body or in the hand
    • A61F11/006—Ear cleaners, e.g. curettes

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  • the invention relates to a tool for the care and sa'nitation of the cavities of the body and more specifically but not exclusively to a type of tool commonly called a swab, It is sometimes used to cleanse the mucosities of the nose but especially to extract ear wax.
  • Ear wax is secreted by the sebaceous glands of the skins external auditory duct which allows this duct to be lubricated and prevents dust and small solid bodies from getting in. Unfortunately, if this substance accumulates it can cause ear singing and some deafness.
  • ear swabs were used to extract the cerumen, but as these little instruments were made of horn, bone or ivory they could damage the ear duct.
  • a result provided by the present invention is that a tool of this nature will not push down the substance to be extracted to the bottom of the cavity, while allowing a sizeable amount of this substance to be removed.
  • the invention provides a tool such as the one aforementioned, however, deferring in that the padding (cotten) absorbing part which is made up of several flexible laminations.
  • a swab for use in body cavities has a body mounted on a stick.
  • the body is a body of revolution around the axis of the stick with a hemispherical top and a truncated cone base.
  • Padding covers or forms the body and is a plurality of spaced flexible laminations fixed to the body.
  • the laminations may have a slight helical curvature in the same direction about the body around the axis of the stick.
  • FIG. 1 is a face view of the instrument
  • FIG. 2 is a sectional view on the line [I II of FIG. 1.
  • the tool according to the invention as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 is comprised of a stick 1, with at least one padding at its end which has a shape circumscribed by a revolving area around axis 3 of stick 1, having a hemispherical portion 4 with a diameter D, connected to a major base area in the shape of a truncated cone 5.
  • the padding 2 is made up of several flexible laminations 6,
  • the laniinations 6 presents a slight helical curvature about the body around the axis of the stick instead of being on a plane and are radially set, at least locally.
  • the laminations 6 area curvedin the same way, when the padding is inserted in the ear duct, it will create, accordingto the direction of rotation of the stick 1 variations ,of diameter D.
  • This can be decreased for an opposite rotation to the direction of arrow F, in order to facilitate insertion of the padded area, for example, or it can be increased by rotation in the direction of arrow F in order to accentuate the pressure on the ducts wall by the external range of laminations 6.
  • laminations are set helically (FIG. 4) in such a manner that they will move the product to be extracted toward the outside of the duct.
  • the set of laminations 6 can be molded into one piece with the stick 1, or with a cylinder liner 11 which will cover the tip of a separate stick.
  • the padding 2 will be advantageously manufactured in rubber or plastic.
  • This tool will be very useful in taking cerumen out of the auditory duct.
  • the flexible laminations 6 in fact, do not run the risk of injuring the wall of the duct; the cerumen will not be packed down at the bottom of the duct as it enters the laminations 6; there is no limit to the quantity of cerumen that can be extracted in one operation; and it can be used in duets with very different diameters.
  • this instrument is not limited to the extraction of harmful substances, it can also be used for the deposit of pasty or liquid substances in great quantities, which will have been previously inserted between the laminations. If the padding is dipped in a container for example, deposit can be made by rotating the padding in the opposite direction to arrow F, causing a decrease in volume between the laminations, and thus the removal of the substance from the padding which will evenly apply itself on the wall of the duct.
  • An instrument for hygiene and care of cavities of the human body comprising a body portion, a stick for said body portion, padding on at least one end of said stick forming said body portion, said padding having a circumscribed shape of a body of revolution around the long axis of said stick, one end of said padding being a hemispherical cap and the other end of said padding being a base in the shape of an inverted truncated cone merging into said cap, and said padding being a plurality of normally contiguous flexible radial laminations around and extending from the axis of said stick forming said cap and said truncated cone into said body portion.

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GB2324241A (en) * 1997-04-17 1998-10-21 Tolleck Winner Earwax remover
US5928176A (en) * 1996-09-11 1999-07-27 Nakatani; Hiroshi Medical swab
US20050171462A1 (en) * 2004-01-30 2005-08-04 Garry Tsaur Identification means for swab applicator
US20050256483A1 (en) * 2004-04-30 2005-11-17 Przepasniak Ann M Disposable vaginal insertion device
US20060004318A1 (en) * 2004-06-30 2006-01-05 Przepasniak Ann M Disposable device that supplies a material to a vagina
US20070049860A1 (en) * 2005-09-01 2007-03-01 Robert Seminara Apparatus and method for using a surgical instrument with an expandable sponge
US20080142385A1 (en) * 2006-12-18 2008-06-19 Stein Michael J Twist tip cleaning devices for ear wax removal
US20080208100A1 (en) * 2007-02-23 2008-08-28 Ranan Wolff Method and apparatus for removal of cerumen
USD701600S1 (en) 2011-03-30 2014-03-25 Steven B. Kauffman Ear swab
US8777972B2 (en) 2011-05-19 2014-07-15 Steven Burres Device and method for removing earwax
US20150257933A1 (en) * 2014-03-17 2015-09-17 Beniamino Pagán H2O Cilia Head Swab
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US10154927B2 (en) 2012-06-14 2018-12-18 Earways Medical Ltd. Ear wax removal device and methods thereof
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US4306555A (en) * 1978-07-31 1981-12-22 Barbara Ritter Applicator swab and method of making the same
US5928176A (en) * 1996-09-11 1999-07-27 Nakatani; Hiroshi Medical swab
GB2324241A (en) * 1997-04-17 1998-10-21 Tolleck Winner Earwax remover
GB2324241B (en) * 1997-04-17 2000-09-20 Tolleck Winner Item of personal hygiene
US20050171462A1 (en) * 2004-01-30 2005-08-04 Garry Tsaur Identification means for swab applicator
US20050256483A1 (en) * 2004-04-30 2005-11-17 Przepasniak Ann M Disposable vaginal insertion device
US20060004318A1 (en) * 2004-06-30 2006-01-05 Przepasniak Ann M Disposable device that supplies a material to a vagina
US20070049860A1 (en) * 2005-09-01 2007-03-01 Robert Seminara Apparatus and method for using a surgical instrument with an expandable sponge
US20080142385A1 (en) * 2006-12-18 2008-06-19 Stein Michael J Twist tip cleaning devices for ear wax removal
US20090173650A1 (en) * 2006-12-18 2009-07-09 Stein Michael J Twist tip cleaning devices for ear wax removal
US20080208100A1 (en) * 2007-02-23 2008-08-28 Ranan Wolff Method and apparatus for removal of cerumen
USD701600S1 (en) 2011-03-30 2014-03-25 Steven B. Kauffman Ear swab
US8777972B2 (en) 2011-05-19 2014-07-15 Steven Burres Device and method for removing earwax
US9918878B2 (en) 2011-05-19 2018-03-20 Steven Burres Device and method for removing earwax
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US11324635B2 (en) 2012-06-14 2022-05-10 Earways Medical Ltd. Cerumen removal apparatus
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US11432964B2 (en) 2013-12-03 2022-09-06 Earways Medical Ltd. Ear wax removal device and methods thereof
US10238545B2 (en) 2013-12-03 2019-03-26 Earways Medical Ltd. Ear wax removal device and methods thereof
US9526659B2 (en) * 2014-03-17 2016-12-27 Beniamino Pagán H2O cilia head swab
US20150257933A1 (en) * 2014-03-17 2015-09-17 Beniamino Pagán H2O Cilia Head Swab
US10869782B2 (en) 2015-11-18 2020-12-22 Wares World Wide Llc Ear cleaning device with whisk-like bulbous ends
US11957543B2 (en) 2015-11-18 2024-04-16 Wares World Wide Llc Ear cleaning device with whisk-like bulbous ends
US11304850B2 (en) 2017-03-24 2022-04-19 Earways Medical Ltd. Apparatus and method for treating or/and refreshing an ear canal
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USD928309S1 (en) * 2019-12-06 2021-08-17 LastSwab ApS Swab
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