Patent DE-102006004138-A1 (DE)
Title: Ear candle for removing ear wax from ear canal, comprises front-sided end, rear end, center region, and air-permeable retention element intended within the rear end region/within the center region and within the ear candle
Inventor: KRUEGER RAPHAEL
IPC: C11C5/00
Filed: 2006-01-27
Abstract: The ear candle for removing earwax from ear canal, comprises front-sided end (2), rear end (3), center region, and air-permeable retention element (4) intended within the rear end region or within the center region and within the ear candle. The retention element exhibits a cross-section area, which is in the form of a tapering or truncated cone or a dome or a slant roof or a pyramid or a hollow cylinder. The tip or the truncated end or the curvature of the retention element is aligned towards the front-sided end of the ear candle. The ear candle for removing earwax from ear canal, comprises front-sided end (2), rear end (3), center region, and air-permeable retention element (4) intended within the rear end region or within the center region and within the ear candle. The retention element exhibits a cross-section area, which is in the form of a tapering or truncated cone or a dome or a slant roof or a pyramid or a hollow cylinder. The tip or the truncated end or the curvature of the retention element is aligned towards the front-sided end of the ear candle. The retention element is designed in such a manner that it permits the retention of ash and/or wax drops and/or unburned and/or burned components of the ear candle, which starting from the front-sided end of the ear candle, act upon the element. An intermediate collecting space (6) is formed between the rear region (5) of the retention element and the rear region of the inner wall of the ear candle and serves for the partial or complete collection of ash, wax drops and unburned or burned residues of the ear candle. The retention element covers a front-sided region, which protrudes frontally from the intermediate collection space, which is formed between the rear region of the retention element and the rear region of the inner wall of the ear candle, so that an air circulation is possible through the retention element even after a complete or almost complete filling up of the intermediate collection space. The retention element is made from filter paper, filter material, insect screen, fine-meshed wire, plastic-, textile- or paper-network or -fabric, gauze, plastic, glass, ceramic, wood or metal or from a spiral wire. The entire surface (front-sided region plus rear region) of the retention element or a part of it or a section of it, is air-permeable. The retention element is built in the form of a tubular hollow cylinder, which extends itself frontally from the rear end of the ear candle and which exhibits recesses in its front-sided region, which are protected with a projection-like, bell-like or roof-like cover or which exhibit no such cover. The outside surface of the retention element is smooth, curved, folded, pleated, rippled, roughened-up, absorbing, or closed laminar. The retention element is reversibly or irreversibly attachable within the rear region or in the middle region of the ear candle by plugging in, snap-locking, clamping, screwing in, tightening, pressing in, tilting or gluing. A positioning ring sealingly presses the rear end of the retention element against the rear end of the ear candle without slipping out of position. The positioning ring exhibits a conical, frontally tapering or hollow-cylindrical cross-sectional area and is rigid or flexible. The length of the retention element along the longitudinal axis of the ear candle lies within the range of 0.6-20 cm. The rear width of the retention element lies within the range of 2.5 mm-2 cm. The ear candle is built hollow-cylindrically or backwardly tapering conical. The retention element is producible from two superimposed filter paper sheets, which are irreversibly connectable with one another before or after or during a contour punching by a rimward embossment. The retention element is manufactured from a non-combustible material.