US1761761A - Set of instruments for the passage of the glottis by means of the touch - Google Patents

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June-3, 1930. s. e. VICENTE SET OF iNSfI'RUMENTS FQR THE PASSAGE OF" THE GLOTTIS BY MEANS OF THE TOUCH Filed Aug. 8', 1928* 2 s eets-sheet, 1

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SET OF INSTRUMENTS FOR- THE PASSAGE OF THE GLOTTIS BY MEANS OF THE TOUCH F ileu Aug. 8, 1928 2 Sheets-She'et, 2

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stare PATENT @FFEQE SATURNINO GARCIA VICENTE, OF MADRID, SPAIN SET OF INSTRUMENTS FOR THE PASSAGE IF THE GLOTTIS BY MEANS OF THE TOUCH Application filed August 8, 1928, Serial No. 298,385, and in Spain June 2, 1926.

This invention provides means whereby the sense of touchmay be utilized in effecting an entranceto and passage through the glottis for medically treating the bronchial tubes and lungs. The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings and will be hereinafter fully set forth.

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I Figure 1 is an elevation of one instrument embodying the invention,

Fig. 2 is a instrument, Fig. 3 is a detail illustrating a method of using the instrument shown in Fig. 2, and Figsh i, 5 and 6are diagrams.

Re'ferringparticularly to Fig. 1, there is shown a syringe l of any approved detail construction having its tube 2bent laterally near its end'and equipped at its end with a 29 head 3 of elongated conical or wedge shape. The head is provided with a suitable outlet opening at its tip through which medicaments may be ejected to be introduced into the lungs. The head willreadily pass be tween the vocal chords when impelled and guided by the forefinger which is inserted through the mouth to the neighborhood of the larynx, as indicated in Figs. 4: and 5.

The other apparatus completing this set 30 of instruments for the passage of the glottis,

is a pair of introductory pinoers 4 (Fig. 2),

intended, as its name implies, for the introduction into the lung of flexible probes or tubes 5 serving to introduce syrupy or thick liquids or to carry out the washing of the p 7 bronchia and similar treatments.

I .The pincers, of sufficient length, are arranged inthe form of scissors with a pressure catch and the elbows at an angle, and the ends terminating in two valves or jaws 6, between which the probe or tube to be introduced is held fast (Fig. 3) these valves or jaws 6 may be larger or smaller, according to the arrangement of the tube or apparatus that is to penetrate into the perspective view of a second lung, and they have the peculiarity that the apparatus as a whole, viz, the valves and the probe or tube, held fast between them as shown in Figs. '3 and 6 and intended to be introduced into the lung, has the wedge shape necessary for the passage of the. glottis according to our process.

The procedure of introduction isthe same as for the injection with the syringe above referred to. The forefinger is-introduced by the vmouth and determines the position of the larynx; then with the other hand the pincers are introduced, with the probe held between their valves, and are guided or impelled by the forefinger, so as to. penetrate into the larynx (Fig. 6). When this has been done, the pincers are opened or released and then Withdrawn, and with the hand that is free the probe or tube is impelled inwards and penetrates into the lung without diiiiculty.

Having in the above suitably set forth the nature 0 my invention and the manner in which it is to be performed, what I seek to have protected by patent are the following claims.

1. An instrument for the passage of the glottis having an entrance element of elongated wedge formation, said element consisting of two mating members meeting on the longitudinal axis of the element.

2. An instrument for the passage of the glottis having an entrance element of elongated wedge formation and consisting of mating jaws having their inner opposed surfaces constructed to clamp a probe or analogous device.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

SATURNINO GARCIA VICENTE. [L. s.]

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