US 12,004,763 B2
Tongue elevator device
Daniel L. Wohl, Jacksonville, FL (US)
Filed by Daniel L. Wohl, Jacksonville, FL (US)
Filed on Jun. 10, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/344,427.
Application 17/344,427 is a continuation in part of application No. 16/583,842, filed on Sep. 26, 2019, granted, now 11,033,258.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/736,594, filed on Sep. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0298776 A1, Sep. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 17/24 (2006.01); A61B 1/24 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/02 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01)
CPC A61B 17/24 (2013.01) [A61B 1/24 (2013.01); A61B 5/4552 (2013.01); A61B 17/02 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00424 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00814 (2013.01); A61B 2090/061 (2016.02); A61B 2090/062 (2016.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
18. A tongue elevator device comprising a handle portion, a neck portion and a manipulating end portion, said neck portion connecting said handle portion to said manipulating end portion;
said handle portion being oblong, non-rectangular and widest in a transverse direction, said handle portion having rounded edges and corners, and said handle portion being wider than said neck portion and said manipulating end portion;
said manipulating end portion comprising a distal concave edge and a frenulum recess centrally disposed on said distal concave edge, wherein said distal concave edge comprises two laterally opposing ends, wherein a lateral width of said manipulating end portion is widest at said two laterally opposing ends;
wherein said neck portion and said manipulating end portion are not co-planar and said manipulating end portion extends downwardly from said neck portion, and wherein said manipulating end portion is joined to said neck portion at a transition zone;
wherein said handle portion comprises a flat portion and a transversely extending, arcuate, proximal end portion, said proximal end portion being thicker than said flat portion; and
further comprising a concave thumb recess disposed on said handle portion.