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WO1996019942A1
WO1996019942A1 PCT/US1995/016837 US9516837W WO9619942A1 WO 1996019942 A1 WO1996019942 A1 WO 1996019942A1 US 9516837 W US9516837 W US 9516837W WO 9619942 A1 WO9619942 A1 WO 9619942A1
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pacifier
weaning
pacifiers
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Sven Arntzen
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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
    • 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

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  • the present invention represents a weaning pacifier/soother, intended to wean children from the habit of using ordinary pacifiers. Children seem to have an instinctive need for sucking. Satisfying this need soothes the child. Hence many children develop a habit of sucking on their thumb. It is often difficult to wean a child from this habit.
  • a normal pacifier cannot be partly or gradually removed. It is either present, or not. Hence, removing the pacifier often causes frustration in children, resulting in the children turning to thumb sucking as a substitute.
  • Some parents give in to the child's frustration and allow the pacifier sucking to continue. Many of these children continue to such on pacifiers or on their thumb long after the age of four to five years.
  • the rubber nipple As the rubber nipple is gradually reduced, or retracted, the child's need to create a partial vacuum in its mouth remains unchanged at first, as does the child's ability to create this desired vacuum. But at some critical point the rubber nipple is reduced or retracted to a size which all of a sudden makes it impossible for the child any longer to create the desired vacuum. The need for the sensation of suction through the creation of a partial vacuum in the child's mouth, however, is still present, just as strongly as before. Hence the use of the above mentioned retractable devices may at some point frustrate the child and make the child turn to thumb sucking as a substitute when said devices all of a sudden no longer stimulate the child's need for the sensation of suction, while this need is still as strong as ever.
  • the present weaning pacifier is based on the belief that the key to a successful weaning is to reduce gradually the intensity and the duration of the partial vacuum that the child creates in its mouth. This makes the child gradually less and less physically attracted to and dependent on this gradually less intense sensation of a partial vacuum.
  • the present invention does not alter, reduce or retract the weaning pacifier's rubber nipple.
  • the present invention does not apply a formerly suggested method of weaning a child, namely to gradually reduce, retract, or remove, the physical presence of the pacifier's rubber nipple.
  • the main objective of the present invention of a weaning pacifier is rather to gradually reduce the child's need for stimulation through sucking on a pacifier. As such, when the weaning pacifier eventually is removed, the need for stimulation through sucking on a pacifier or on the thumb is gone. The child, therefore, does not become frustrated, and does not turn to thumb sucking as a substitute.
  • the air canal is initially closed, allowing no air to enter and negate the partial vacuum that the child has created in its mouth. This situation remains for as long as the parents accept the child's use of the pacifier. When the time has come to wean the child, the parents allow a controlled minute amount of air to enter and negate the partial vacuum making the vacuum weaker and, hence, less attractive for the child. The minute air flow also makes the vacuum last shorter before the child has to recreate it by reapplying suction to the rubber nipple.
  • FIGURE I shows a cross section of the present invention of a weaning pacifier.
  • FIGURE II shows a detail of the membrane 13 at the end of an air canal with no air flow.
  • FIGURE III shows a detail of an opening at the retention end of the air canal which provides air flow.
  • the preferred rubber (or similar material) nipple 1 is secured in a plastic shield 2, by the plastic plug 3.
  • the stem 4 of the plug 3 fits into the base 5 of the rubber nipple.
  • the body 6 of the plug 3 compresses the rubber nipple's collar 7 against the shield 2.
  • the cylinder wall 8 of the plug is locked in position in the cylinder wall 9 of the shield 2 by known means.
  • Such a mechanism might be a snap-in mechanism with a ridge on one of the two interlocking parts that snap into a groove on the other part or one or more protruding detents that fit into corresponding cavities or any one of other already known locking mechanisms.
  • the only requirement for the locking mechanism is that it is easy to assemble and disassemble for an adult, but impossible to disassemble for a small child. This may be accomplished either by making it too complicated for a child to disassemble the plug from the shield or by making it physically too demanding for a child to do it.
  • the cover 10 of the plug 3 forms an opening 11 between the cover 10 and the body 6 of the plug.
  • This opening 11 may be inserted the handle of a teaspoon or similar to be used by an adult (parent) as a tool for removal of the plug 3 from the shield 2.
  • an adult (parent) may fairly easily remove the plug 3 from the shield 2 for cleaning purposes, whereas the small child using only its fingers cannot exert the necessary force to pull the plug 3 and the shield 2 apart.
  • the air canal 12 leads through the rubber nipple 1 from the sucking end 14 to the retention end 15.
  • the rubber nipple 1 is made of solid soft rubber or similar material.
  • the air canal 12 continues through the stem 4 and into the body 6 of the plug 3. Closest to the space 11, the center of the body 6 of the plug consists of a membrane 13.
  • the membrane 13 may be intact so as to seal off any air flow through the air canal 12 of the rubber nipple 1. This will be the case when the weaning process has not yet started. See FIGURE II. When the weaning starts the membrane 13 will be equipped with an opening 14 to allow air flow. See FIGURE III. The opening 14 will be very small at first to provide suction to be sustained for a longer period. To gradually increase air flow through the nipple 1, an expandable increasingly larger hole 14 is provided.
  • An alternative solution, rather than gradually expanding the opening 14 in the membrane 13, is to manufacture a set of two or more weaning pacifiers with successively larger openings 14.
  • the first pacifier in the set will have no air flow, as shown in Figure II. It will be used during the child's normal pacifier years, in order to familiarize the child with the physical characteristics of the weaning pacifiers so as to avoid rejection of these when the weaning starts.
  • the other subsequent pacifiers in the set will have gradually larger openings 14 through the membrane 13 so as to allow for gradually larger air flow. Going through the set of weaning pacifiers with gradually larger openings 14, will allow increasingly larger air flows through the air canal 12 of the rubber nipple 1.
  • Another advantage of using such a set of weaning pacifiers is that, except for the special nipple 1 and the membrane 13 with its hole 14, the manufacturing of the weaning pacifier can use existing technology presently applied in the production of ordinary pacifiers.
  • the weaning pacifiers have the same basic parts as ordinary pacifiers. The most significant differences are:
  • the pacifiers are identical. This makes production simpler and less expensive.
  • Another advantage is that the child can use the same model pacifier from birth, since all the pacifiers in the set are identical and they feel identical, except for the air flow, e.g. the size of the opening 14. Hence, there is little chance of rejection when the parents almost unnoticeably switch the child from the pacifiers without air flow to the child's first weaning pacifier with an air flow.

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Abstract

L'invention porte sur une amélioration apportée à une sucette de sevrage qui comporte un canal (12) destiné au passage de l'air commençant à l'extrémité d'une tétine (14) servant à la succion et s'achevant à l'autre extrémité (15) servant à la maintenir. Ce canal destiné au passage de l'air se termine par une ouverture (14) permettant l'écoulement de l'air. Un jeu de sucettes en apparence similaires qui, comportant des ouvertures s'élargissant l'une après l'autre, permet un sevrage par étapes sur une période donnée.
PCT/US1995/016837 1994-12-23 1995-12-21 Sucette de sevrage WO1996019942A1 (fr)

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NO945011A NO945011D0 (no) 1994-12-23 1994-12-23 Avvenningssmokk
NO945011 1994-12-23
NO950403A NO950403L (no) 1994-12-23 1995-02-03 Avvenningssmokk
NO950403 1995-02-03

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WO1996019942A9 WO1996019942A9 (fr) 1996-08-29

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Cited By (8)

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DE19652118C1 (de) * 1996-12-14 1998-08-13 Oliver Dr Med Hoenig Beruhigungssauger
WO1999011219A1 (fr) * 1997-09-03 1999-03-11 Hadasit Medical Research Services & Development Company Ltd. Sucette
US7400052B1 (en) 2006-11-29 2008-07-15 Active Power, Inc. Transient energy systems and methods for use of the same
US7425807B1 (en) 2006-11-29 2008-09-16 Active Power, Inc. Transient energy systems and methods for use of the same
US7642664B1 (en) 2006-11-29 2010-01-05 Active Power, Inc. Transient energy systems and methods for use of the same
US7681395B2 (en) 2003-02-05 2010-03-23 Joseph F Pinkerton Systems and methods for providing backup energy to a load
US7750518B1 (en) 2006-11-29 2010-07-06 Active Power, Inc. Transient energy systems and methods for use of the same
US7918091B1 (en) 2006-09-20 2011-04-05 Active Power, Inc. Systems and methods for controlling humidity

Citations (2)

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US1518823A (en) * 1922-06-10 1924-12-09 Henry A Schmidt Combination nipple and pacifier
GB2215318A (en) * 1988-02-25 1989-09-20 Oreal A variable and adjustable delivery teat for an infant's feeding bottle

Patent Citations (2)

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US1518823A (en) * 1922-06-10 1924-12-09 Henry A Schmidt Combination nipple and pacifier
GB2215318A (en) * 1988-02-25 1989-09-20 Oreal A variable and adjustable delivery teat for an infant's feeding bottle

Cited By (8)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE19652118C1 (de) * 1996-12-14 1998-08-13 Oliver Dr Med Hoenig Beruhigungssauger
WO1999011219A1 (fr) * 1997-09-03 1999-03-11 Hadasit Medical Research Services & Development Company Ltd. Sucette
US7681395B2 (en) 2003-02-05 2010-03-23 Joseph F Pinkerton Systems and methods for providing backup energy to a load
US7918091B1 (en) 2006-09-20 2011-04-05 Active Power, Inc. Systems and methods for controlling humidity
US7400052B1 (en) 2006-11-29 2008-07-15 Active Power, Inc. Transient energy systems and methods for use of the same
US7425807B1 (en) 2006-11-29 2008-09-16 Active Power, Inc. Transient energy systems and methods for use of the same
US7642664B1 (en) 2006-11-29 2010-01-05 Active Power, Inc. Transient energy systems and methods for use of the same
US7750518B1 (en) 2006-11-29 2010-07-06 Active Power, Inc. Transient energy systems and methods for use of the same

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