Foregger Oxygen Flush Valve
Oxygen flush valves provide for the rapid flow of oxygen into the anesthetic circuit. Oxygen flush valves have been a feature of some anesthesia machines since the late 1930s, when they were first incorporated in the British-made Boyle machine. In 1952, the Foregger Company of New York introduced the Copper Kettle Vaporizer. The lever that turned the vaporizer on and off also had a third setting that performed multiple functions; it operated as a fail-safe mechanism to stop the vaporizer, as a safety valve to prevent pressure buildup within the vaporizer, and as an oxygen flush valve. The Copper Kettle became an option on most Foregger machine models. The component shown here is part of a Foregger Texas Model machine, made between 1955 and 1962.
Catalog Record: Foregger Oxygen Flush Valve
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Accession No.: 1963-10-24-1
Title: [Foregger Oxygen Flush Valve].
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Note Type: General
Notes: The cataloged item is a component built into a Foregger Texas Model machine.
The acccession number refers to the entire machine.
Note Type: Citation
Notes: Dorsch JA, Dorsch SE. Understanding Anesthesia Equipment: Construction, Care
and Complications. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1984.
Note Type: Citation
Notes: Rendel-Baker L. “Desirable performance characteristics of anesthetic machines
” In: Wyant, GM, ed. Problems In the Performance of Anesthetic Respiratory
Equipment. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. International
Anesthesiology Clinics, vol. 12.
Note Type: Exhibition
Notes: Selected for the WLM website (noted Dec. 23, 2015).
