Abstract: An inflatable cuff of an endotracheal tube, having multiple lumens, is connected through a lumen to an exterior collapsible container; the cuff, lumen and collapsible container defining a closed pneumatic system that is adapted to receive a metered amount of gas sufficient to inflate the cuff, when the collapsible container is fully collapsed, to seal at a pressure, responsive to said metered amount of gas, undamaging to a trachea in which the tube is inserted. A relatively rigid and larger container encloses the collapsible container and is connected together with another lumen to a common source of air at lung inflation pressure in normal breathing pulsations whereby the trachea is invariably sealed at undamaging pressure unaffected by the amount of, and variation in, the lung inflation pressure of the supplied air, the sealing being in synchronization with lung inflation by the normal breathing pulsations.

Abstract: A disposable, inhalation-therapy, container in which a chamber for liquid is defined between the sides, top and bottom of the container by transverse upper and lower, flexible, multi-slitted partitions, spaced from the top and bottom of the container. The partitions are porous when flexed by inhalation gas pressure and impervious when not so flexed. Inhalation gas under pressure is introduced into the space between the container bottom and the lower partition and flexes it to porosity, the gas bubbling through theliquid chamber is silenced and slowed by the upper partition as it is flexed into porosity by the gas pressure to better humidify the escaping gas for inhalation. When the therapy ceases, inhalation gas pressure is shut-off and the sterile liquid is resealed by the unflexed partitions in the liquid chamber.