Manual exercise device for toning and tightening flaccid tissue surrounding an airway

Abstract

Manual exercise device that is comprised of a combination mouthpiece and top cap, a soft-rubber check-valve, a hard plastic hollow spherical bulb, and a soft plastic washer with a minuscule hole at its center held in position by an open-faced cap. A preferred embodiment affords a user a means through which to manually create and maintain a slowly depleting vacuum within the hard plastic bulb, exercising flaccid tissue and musculature in the process.

1 . A non-invasive exercise apparatus comprised of:
 a hard plastic sphere made of santoprene and polystyrene with threaded open orifices at opposite ends of the sphere;   a rubber check-valve that sits snugly in the larger of the two threaded orifices;   a plastic mouth piece that attaches to the larger threaded orifice by a threaded cap corresponding with threads on the orifice, covering the rubber check-valve;   a threaded, open-face plastic cap that corresponds with the smaller threaded orifice;   a soft plastic washer with a circumference of the inner-face of the. open-face plastic cap; and   a minuscule hole that is positioned precisely at the center of the soft plastic washer.   
     
     
         2 . A non-invasive exercise apparatus, as stated in  claim 1 , whereas, once assembled provides repetitious exercise for tissue surrounding the human airway by creating and maintaining a vacuum within the hard plastic, hollow sphere. 
     
     
         3 . A non-invasive exercise apparatus, as stated in  claim 1 , which provides a safe, effective means through which to tone and tighten tissue in human airways that is associated with and responsible for snoring. 
     
     
         4 . A non-invasive exercise apparatus, as stated in  claim 1 , that, with continued proper use, tones and tightens flaccid obstructive tissue along and surrounding the human airways that is associated with and responsible for the health detriment known as Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA). 
     
     
         5 . A non-invasive exercise apparatus, as stated in  claim 1  which, when utilized in a proper and routine manner, is effective in toning and tightening tissue surrounding, human airways allowing for the intake and exhalation of air, unhampered by blockages associated with otherwise flaccid and untoned tissue.