Surgery – Means for inserting fibrous or foraminous resident packing,...
Patent
1996-04-17
1998-02-17
Isabella, David
Surgery
Means for inserting fibrous or foraminous resident packing,...
604330, 604904, A61M 3100
Patent
active
057186758
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is the U.S. National phase of PCT/SE93/00922 filed Nov. 5, 1993.
BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a hollow tampon manufactured from hygienic and tissue-friendly flexible material, with which the user herself fills the tampon with absorbent material which is then discarded after use, whereafter the tampon is refilled with absorbent material by the user for further use. In other words, the safety tampon is reusable.
The amount of menstrual fluid discharged from women will very from person to person. The safety tampon provides women with the possibility of modifying their own need for absorbent material during their menstruation periods.
As a result of its design, the design of the safety tampon eliminates saturation and also the dripping effect of tampons--soiling of clothes and possibly also furniture. The inventive tampon is therefore called a safety tampon, since it affords a degree of safety or security to the wearer.
It is generally known that tampons commercially available at present are liable to injure the extremely sensitive and easily irritated walls of the vagina of the female wearer to a greater or lesser extent. Furthermore, the microscopic injuries caused to the mucous membrane and to the walls of the vagina of women who use tampons render these parts of the body extremely receptive to infectious diseases of diverse kinds.
These dangers and related dangers and discomfort are eliminated by the present invention as a result of the following properties.
1) The tampon is counteractive to tampon saturation and droplet effect.
2) The design of the safety tampon and the tissue-friendly material from which it is made eliminates the hazard of injury to the vagina of the female wearer.
The invention thus relates to a hollow tampon which is made of flexible, tissue-friendly material and which includes on the outside of the tampon a plurality of downwardly inclined so-called inflow apertures through which menstrual fluid is able to pass to a closed space located in the lowermost part of the tampon. The user has earlier placed in this space, or cavity, an absorbent material--a highly absorbent material--as necessary. In other words, the user herself fills and refills the tampon with absorbent material and discards this material after use, and then refills the same tampon with absorbent material to obtain an effective tampon. This procedure enables the safety tampon to be reused over a long period of time.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The invention will now be described in more detail with reference to an exemplifying embodiment thereof and also with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which
FIG. 1 is a schematic longitudinal section view of one exemplifying embodiment of an inventive tampon;
FIG. 2 illustrates schematically solely the axially extending flow grooves which facilitate the flow of menstrual fluid to the so-called inflow apertures, from which the fluid then passes to the closed space in the lowermost part of the tampon; and
FIG. 3 is a longitudinal, schematic section view of "radial pits or recesses" whose function is to facilitate placement of the tampon in a fixed position in the vagina. This longitudinal section view also shows the downwardly inclined, so-called inflow apertures, and also a ball of highly absorbent material in the closed space in the lowermost part of the tampon.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
The tampon can be said to have an elliptical shape formed by tissue-friendly, flexible material over whose upper part there has been inserted an oval profile and an elliptical opening. The lower part of the tampon is closed in a semi-circular shape.
FIG. 1. The reference numeral 1 identifies an opening in the upper part of the tampon which allows menstrual blood to pass to the closed space in the lowermost part of the tampon. The opening is also used by the wearer to remove used absorbent material and also to insert new unused absorbent material.
The reference numer
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Cho David J.
Isabella David
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