EP0109884A1 - Sound producing pacifier for babies - Google Patents
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
- A61J17/00—Baby-comforters; Teething rings
- A61J17/10—Details; Accessories therefor
- A61J17/101—Emitting means, e.g. for emitting sound, light, scents or flavours
- A61J17/1011—Emitting sound, e.g. having rattles or music boxes
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61J—CONTAINERS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR MEDICAL OR PHARMACEUTICAL PURPOSES; DEVICES OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR BRINGING PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS INTO PARTICULAR PHYSICAL OR ADMINISTERING FORMS; DEVICES FOR ADMINISTERING FOOD OR MEDICINES ORALLY; BABY COMFORTERS; DEVICES FOR RECEIVING SPITTLE
- A61J17/00—Baby-comforters; Teething rings
- A61J17/001—Baby-comforters
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- the invention relates to a sonic pacifier for babies, comprising a rubber teat and a flat guard piece arranged transversely behind the teat and constituted by a hollow body containing shot which crackles when the pacifier is agitated.
- the object of the invention is to avoid such accidents by providing a passageway for air or liquids so that the pacifier no longer constitutes, by its guard piece, an insurmountable obstacle in an anatomical conduit into which it would have penetrated.
- the invention consists in providing the guard piece with at least one opening made through its thickness, this opening being delimited by a wall extending from one face to the other of the guard piece and now closed the interior space of the latter.
- a passageway is created by one or more openings through the guard piece, without however being detrimental to the tightness of the interior space of this hollow part thanks to the presence of the wall provided to delimit each opening, so that the shot contained in the guard cannot escape.
- each opening is an orifice located some distance from the edge of the guard piece, the wall which delimits it having a tubular conformation.
- the cross section of each orifice and its tubular wall is advantageously circular.
- the guard piece has the shape of a circular disc, which has two diametrically opposite orifices.
- the guard piece is constituted by the assembly of two shells, at least one of which has a convex shape, it is suitable according to the invention for the wall delimiting each opening to be one with the shells, the other comprising a hole bordered by a receiving imprint where the end of this wall fits.
- the pacifier shown comprises a rubber teat 1 mounted on a support 2 of generally cylindrical shape, which is provided with a gripping ring 3. Between this ring and the teat 1 is arranged, by engagement on the support 2, a part guard 4 in the shape of a circular disc pierced centrally.
- the guard piece 4 consists of two complementary shells 4a, 4b assembled.
- the shell 4a has a substantially flat outer surface (in fact slightly convex) facing the nipple 1.
- the shell 4b has a shape close to that of a hollow half-torus.
- the shells 4a, 4b reveal an annular interior space 5, in which grains 6 previously introduced can run which, striking the internal walls of said shells when the pacifier is shaken, produce a noise at the like a rattle.
- Two orifices 7 are provided through the guard piece 4. They are located on the same diameter on either side of the center of the piece 4, some distance from the outer edge of the latter (approximately two thirds of each corresponding radius, counted from the center). These orifices provide a passage between the two faces of the part 4 through its thickness. In order to preserve the tightness of the space 5 and to prevent the grains 6 from escaping therefrom through the orifices 7, the latter are respectively delimited by a wall 8 in the form of a barrel cylindrical, coming from molding with the shell 4a.
- the shell 4b has in correspondence two holes and circular imprints 9 where the ends of the barrels 8 fit together when the shells 4a and 4b are assembled.
- tubular walls 8 inside the space 5 also represents the advantage of constituting obstacles struck by the seeds 6, which increases the noise created by them when the pacifier is agitated.
- the shell 4b ( Figure 4) has recesses 10 formed in its edge and delimited by a wall 11a connecting with the peripheral edge 11 of said shell and being integral with the latter.
- the shell 4a (FIG. 5) has facing orifices 12 surrounded by a wall 13a which is connected with its peripheral edge 13 and which, by interlocking with the wall 11a, saves the tightness of the interior space of the guard piece 4 .
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Abstract
Description
L'invention se rapporte à une sucette sonore pour bébés, comprenant une tétine en caoutchouc et une pièce de garde plate disposée transversalement à l'arrière de la tétine et constituée par un corps creux contenant de la grenaille qui crépite lorsque la sucette est agitée.The invention relates to a sonic pacifier for babies, comprising a rubber teat and a flat guard piece arranged transversely behind the teat and constituted by a hollow body containing shot which crackles when the pacifier is agitated.
Il peut arriver qu'un bébé, jouant avec une sucette de ce genre, l'avale et que celle-ci aille se loger dans sa trachée-artère et risque ainsi de l'étouffer, ou dans son oesophage en obstruant celui-ci.It can happen that a baby, playing with a pacifier of this kind, swallows it and the latter goes to lodge in its windpipe and thus risks suffocating it, or in its esophagus by obstructing it.
L'invention a pour but d'éviter de tels accidents en prévoyant une voie de passage pour l'air ou les liquides de manière que la sucette ne constitue plus par sa pièce de garde un obstacle infranchissable dans un conduit anatomique où elle aurait pénétré.The object of the invention is to avoid such accidents by providing a passageway for air or liquids so that the pacifier no longer constitutes, by its guard piece, an insurmountable obstacle in an anatomical conduit into which it would have penetrated.
A cet effet, l'invention consiste à doter la pièce de garde d'au moins une ouverture pratiquée à travers son épaisseur, cette ouverture étant délimitée par une paroi s'étendant d'une face à l'autre de la pièce de garde et maintenant clos l'espace intérieur de cette dernière. Ainsi est créée une voie de passage par une ou plusieurs ouvertures à travers la pièce de garde, sans que soit pour autant porté atteinte à l'étanchéité de l'espace intérieur de cette pièce creuse grâce à la présence de la paroi prévue pour délimiter chaque ouverture, de sorte que la grenaille que contient la pièce de garde ne peut s'en échapper.To this end, the invention consists in providing the guard piece with at least one opening made through its thickness, this opening being delimited by a wall extending from one face to the other of the guard piece and now closed the interior space of the latter. Thus, a passageway is created by one or more openings through the guard piece, without however being detrimental to the tightness of the interior space of this hollow part thanks to the presence of the wall provided to delimit each opening, so that the shot contained in the guard cannot escape.
De préférence, chaque ouverture est un orifice situé à quelque distance du bord de la pièce de garde, la paroi qui le délimite ayant une conformation tubulaire. La section transversale de chaque orifice et de sa paroi tubulaire est avantageusement circulaire. Dans une forme d'exécution préférée, la pièce de garde a la forme d'un disque circulaire, lequel comporte deux orifices diamétralement opposés.Preferably, each opening is an orifice located some distance from the edge of the guard piece, the wall which delimits it having a tubular conformation. The cross section of each orifice and its tubular wall is advantageously circular. In a preferred embodiment, the guard piece has the shape of a circular disc, which has two diametrically opposite orifices.
Lorsque la pièce de garde est constituée par l'assemblage de deux coquilles dont l'une au moins a une forme convexe, il convient selon l'invention que la paroi délimitant chaque ouverture fasse corps avec l'une des coquilles, l'autre coquille comportant un trou bordé d'une empreinte de réception où s'emboîte l'extrémité de cette paroi.When the guard piece is constituted by the assembly of two shells, at least one of which has a convex shape, it is suitable according to the invention for the wall delimiting each opening to be one with the shells, the other comprising a hole bordered by a receiving imprint where the end of this wall fits.
La description qui va suivre, en regard des dessins annexés à titre d'exemples non limitatifs, permettra de bien comprendre comment la présente invention peut être mise en pratique.The following description, with reference to the accompanying drawings by way of nonlimiting examples, will make it possible to understand clearly how the present invention can be put into practice.
- La figure 1 représente en perspective une sucette selon l'invention.Figure 1 shows in perspective a pacifier according to the invention.
- La figure 2 représente, à plus grande échelle, une coupe diamétrale faite à travers la pièce de garde de la sucette de la figure 1.FIG. 2 represents, on a larger scale, a diametrical section made through the guard piece of the pacifier of FIG. 1.
- La figure 3 représente une coupe suivant la ligne III - III de l'objet de la figure 2.FIG. 3 represents a section along line III - III of the object of FIG. 2.
- Les figures 4 à 6 représentent une autre forme d'exécution.Figures 4 to 6 show another embodiment.
La sucette représentée comprend une tétine de caoutchouc 1 montée sur un support 2 de forme générale cylindrique, qui est muni d'un anneau-de préhension 3. Entre cet anneau et la tétine 1 est disposée, par engagement sur le support 2, une pièce de garde 4 en forme de disque circulaire percé centralement. La pièce de garde 4 se compose de deux coquilles complémentaires 4a, 4b assemblées. La coquille 4a présente une surface extérieure sensiblement plane (en fait légèrement convexe) tournée vers la tétine 1. La coquille 4b a une forme voisine de celle d'un demi- tore creux. Assemblées par emboîtement le long de leur pourtour, les coquilles 4a, 4b font apparaître un espace intérieur 5 annulaire, dans lequel peuvent courir des grains 6 préalablement introduits qui, frappant les parois internes desdites coquilles lorsque la sucette est secouée, produisent un bruit à la manière d'un hochet.The pacifier shown comprises a
Deux orifices 7 sont prévus à travers la pièce de garde 4. Ils sont situés sur un même diamètre de part et d'autre du centre de la pièce 4, à quelque distance du bord extérieur de celle-ci (environ aux deux tiers de chaque rayon correspondant, comptés à partir du centre). Ces orifices assurent un passage entre les deux faces de la pièce 4 à travers son épaisseur. Afin de préserver l'étanchéité de l'espace 5 et d'empêcher que les grains 6 s'en échappent par les orifices 7, ces derniers sont respectivement délimités par une paroi 8 en forme de canon cylindrique, venant de moulage avec la coquille 4a. La coquille 4b comporte en correspondance deux trous et des empreintes circulaires 9 où s'emboîtent les extrémités des canons 8 lors de l'assemblage des coquilles 4a et 4b.Two
On remarque que la présence des parois tubulaires 8 à l'intérieur de l'espace 5 représente par ailleurs l'avantage de constituer des obstacles que frappent les graines 6, ce qui accroît le bruit créé par ceux-ci lorsque la sucette est agitée.Note that the presence of the
Dans la forme d'exécution des figures 4 à 6, la coquille 4b (figure 4) comporte des évidements 10 pratiqués dans son bord et délimités par une paroi 11a se raccordant avec la bordure périphérique 11 de ladite coquille et faisant corps avec cette dernière. La coquille 4a (figure 5) comporte en regard des orifices 12 cernés par une'paroi 13a se raccordant avec sa bordure périphérique 13 et permettant par emboîtement avec la paroi 11a de sauvegarder l'étanchéité de l'espace intérieur de la pièce de garde 4.In the embodiment of Figures 4 to 6, the
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Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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FR8218694A FR2535607B1 (en) | 1982-11-08 | 1982-11-08 | SOUND LUCK FOR BABIES |
FR8218694 | 1982-11-08 |
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EP0109884A1 true EP0109884A1 (en) | 1984-05-30 |
EP0109884B1 EP0109884B1 (en) | 1988-01-27 |
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EP83402144A Expired EP0109884B1 (en) | 1982-11-08 | 1983-11-04 | Sound producing pacifier for babies |
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EP (1) | EP0109884B1 (en) |
CA (1) | CA1248834A (en) |
DE (1) | DE3375455D1 (en) |
ES (2) | ES284472Y (en) |
FR (1) | FR2535607B1 (en) |
Cited By (2)
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WO1986003403A1 (en) * | 1984-12-13 | 1986-06-19 | L.S.R. Baby Products (U.K.) Limited | Pacifiers |
US5883190A (en) * | 1996-11-28 | 1999-03-16 | Bayer Ag | Thermoplastic moulding compositions of the ABS type |
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FR1127064A (en) * | 1955-05-23 | 1956-12-07 | Bognier & Burnet Ets | Clicking pacifier-pacifier |
FR2210379A1 (en) * | 1972-12-14 | 1974-07-12 | Woolf Griptight Ltd Lewis | |
FR2466245A1 (en) * | 1979-10-03 | 1981-04-10 | Salengro Lucien | Safety flange for infant's dummy - is oval in shape with indent on one edge to fit under infant's nose |
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- 1982-11-08 FR FR8218694A patent/FR2535607B1/en not_active Expired
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- 1983-11-04 DE DE8383402144T patent/DE3375455D1/en not_active Expired
- 1983-11-07 ES ES1983284472U patent/ES284472Y/en not_active Expired
- 1983-11-07 CA CA000440531A patent/CA1248834A/en not_active Expired
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Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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FR1127064A (en) * | 1955-05-23 | 1956-12-07 | Bognier & Burnet Ets | Clicking pacifier-pacifier |
FR2210379A1 (en) * | 1972-12-14 | 1974-07-12 | Woolf Griptight Ltd Lewis | |
FR2466245A1 (en) * | 1979-10-03 | 1981-04-10 | Salengro Lucien | Safety flange for infant's dummy - is oval in shape with indent on one edge to fit under infant's nose |
Cited By (2)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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WO1986003403A1 (en) * | 1984-12-13 | 1986-06-19 | L.S.R. Baby Products (U.K.) Limited | Pacifiers |
US5883190A (en) * | 1996-11-28 | 1999-03-16 | Bayer Ag | Thermoplastic moulding compositions of the ABS type |
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ES287759Y (en) | 1986-08-01 |
ES284472U (en) | 1986-01-01 |
CA1248834A (en) | 1989-01-17 |
EP0109884B1 (en) | 1988-01-27 |
DE3375455D1 (en) | 1988-03-03 |
FR2535607A1 (en) | 1984-05-11 |
FR2535607B1 (en) | 1986-02-07 |
ES287759U (en) | 1986-01-01 |
ES284472Y (en) | 1986-08-01 |
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