Patent ID: 8931488
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A mouth guard comprising: a pair of planar, spaced-apart molar receiving members; the molar receiving members having opposite upper and lower biting surfaces; forward end portions of the molar receiving members being positioned in a spaced-apart relationship with one another, defining a fluid gap, such that the mouth guard does not include biting surfaces for incisor teeth within upper and lower arcades of a user's teeth; an outer wall having opposing forward and rearward surfaces; the rearward surface of the outer wall being shaped to confront an exterior surface of the user's lips; an inner wall, positioned between the molar receiving members and the outer wall; the inner wall being shaped to extend along at least a substantial length of an outer edge portion of the molar receiving members and spanning the fluid gap between the molar receiving members; the inner wall having opposing forward and rearward surfaces; the forward surface of the inner wall being shaped to confront an inner surface of the user's lips; the rearward surface of the inner wall being shaped to confront forward surfaces of the user's teeth; and a conduit extending between the inner and outer walls; the conduit having an open passage that extends through opposite end portions of the conduit; the opening passage penetrating the inner and outer walls and positioned to be in open fluid communication with the fluid gap the conduit having an outer circumferential surface having a longitudinal length such that the forward surface of the inner wall is longitudinally separated from the rearward surface of the outer wall by a gap defined by the outer circumferential surface of the conduit extending between the inner and outer wall; the fluid gap having a width, along an entire length of the fluid gap, that is wider than a width of the open passage such that fluid may flow along a linear pathway, which is coaxial with the open passage, from opposite end portions of the conduit passage at the inner wall, through the fluid gap without confronting an opposing surface of the molar receiving members.