Patent ID: 11964094
Assignee: MEDTRONIC XOMED, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 15:
16. A system for irrigation of a selected location, comprising:
a manual pump assembly having a pump barrel and a plunger moveable within the pump barrel;
a valve assembly connected to the manual pump assembly and to a fluid source;
a rotatable direction control grip spaced apart from the manual pump assembly; and
a tip assembly having a tip with an opening to deliver a selected material from the pump barrel;
wherein the tip assembly includes:
a rotatable flexible tip tube extending from and fixed to the rotatable direction control grip, the tip axially held and extending from the rotatable flexible tip tube, and a plurality of tip sheathes, each tip sheath having a different shape and defining an internal passage, wherein the rotatable flexible tip tube extends through and is rotatable relative to each internal passage of each tip sheath;

wherein the rotatable direction control grip is configured to be rotated relative to the pump barrel to rotate the rotatable flexible tip tube and the tip about an axis of the tip assembly;
wherein the manual pump assembly is configured to be operated by a user to irrigate the selected location with a fluid through the opening of the tip;
wherein each of the plurality of tip sheathes is further configured to have a suction drawn through the internal passage while the fluid is expressed from the rotatable flexible tip tube.