Joan E Harris

US Patent:

45513295, Nov 5, 1985

Filed:

Jan 20, 1984

Appl. No.:

6/572464

Inventors:

Joan Harris - Miami Beach FL
Thomas J. Michel - Miami FL

International Classification:

A01N 2512

US Classification:

424 22

Abstract:

A handle-supported oral medicament in a lollipop format to facilitate chewing or sucking thereof without the risk of inadvertent aspiration of large pieces of the medicament or of its entire body. The handle is formed by a stick of resilient material looped into a single coil whose ends are extended forwardly to define a pair of spring arms terminating in enlarged ears, the body of the medicament being molded about the ears, thereby securing the handle thereto. Because the ears occupy a large internal region therein, even if the body is chewed into pieces, these will be small and not, therefore, lodge in the throat or block the airway. And should the medicament separate from the ears of the handle in the mouth of the patient, the released arms will then spring apart to thereby block entry of the handle into the throat.