Syringe for vaginal irrigation

Details Syringe for vaginal irrigation Syringe for vaginal irrigation

2000-07-24

2002-04-30

Casler, Brian L. (Department: 3763)

Surgery

Means for introducing or removing material from body for...

Treating material introduced into or removed from body...

C604S142000, C604S153000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06379341

ABSTRACT:

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to portable-sized and handy syringes for irrigation and, more particularly, to a syringe for vaginal irrigation, designed to be easily and effectively used for irrigating monstrous secretions from the vagina particularly during or after a menstruation, thus removing monstrous odor from the vagina and allowing the user to feel refreshed at the vagina in addition to keeping the vagina clean and sanitary.
2. Description of the Prior Art
During or after a menstruation, monstrous secretions are remained within the vagina, thus causing odor and poor sanitation at the vagina and allowing a woman to feel uncomfortable. In order to overcome such problems caused by the menstruations, most women manually wash their vaginas by hand using irrigating solutions in the prior art. However, such a manual vaginal washing is problematic in that it fails to accomplish a desired vaginal irrigation effect and may cause an infection of the vagina by infectious bacteria of the hands and an injury on the vaginal wall by the fingernails.
In an effort to overcome such a problem experienced in the manual vaginal washing, Korean Laid-open Publication No.
96-3956
discloses a syringe for vaginal irrigation. As shown in
FIGS. 3 and 4
of the accompanying drawings, the above conventional syringe for vaginal irrigation comprises an elastic hollow barrel
10
assembled with a removable cap
30
having an irrigation nozzle
20
. In the above syringe, the removable cap
30
is designed to assemble the nozzle
20
with the mouth of the barrel
10
in a way such that the nozzle
20
is positioned inside or outside the barrel
10
as desired. When it is necessary to keep the syringe out of use for a period of time, the cap
30
is tightened to the mouth of the barrel
10
, with the nozzle
20
positioned inside the barrel
10
so as to be protected from the atmosphere. On the other hand, the cap
30
has to be tightened to the mouth of the barrel
10
, with the nozzle
20
positioned outside the barrel
10
, when it is necessary to use the syringe. The irrigation nozzle
20
is provided with a plurality of ejection holes
25
,
26
,
27
,
28
and
29
for ejecting an irrigating solution from the barrel
10
into the vagina.
However, the above syringe for vaginal irrigation is problematic in that it has a generally linear shape from the top of the nozzle
20
to the bottom of the barrel
10
, and so the syringe does not meet the structure or the posture of the human body during a vaginal irrigation. That is, in order to irrigate the vagina, the syringe for vaginal irrigation is applied to the vagina by a user, with the barrel
10
being gripped by a hand and the nozzle
20
being inserted into the vagina. In such a case, the vagina is nearly positioned vertically, and so the user necessarily grips the syringe almost vertically so as to make the nozzle
20
to be directed upward in an almost vertical direction and inserts the nozzle
20
upward into the almost vertically positioned vagina. After the insertion of the nozzle
20
into the vagina, the barrel
10
is manually compressed by a hand gripping the barrel
10
to eject the vaginal irrigating solution under pressure from the barrel
10
into the vagina through the ejection holes
25
to
29
of the nozzle
20
. It is thus very difficult for the user to grip the syringe while irrigating the vagina. In addition, when the barrel
10
is compressed once to eject the irrigating solution into the vagina, the pressurized solution primarily flows from the barrel
10
to the nozzle
20
and is partially ejected into the vagina through the holes
25
to
29
of the nozzle
20
. After the first ejection of the pressurized irrigating solution from the nozzle
20
into the vagina, the compressed barrel
10
is released from the compressing force temporarily and expands to restore its original volume before a second ejection of the solution. When the barrel
10
restores its original volume as described above, the remaining solution within the nozzle
20
naturally flows back to the barrel
10
since the syringe is positioned vertically. Such a compressing and releasing action for the barrel
10
has to be repeated several times during a vaginal irrigation process, and so a substantial amount of irrigating solution is not ejected into the vagina, but is finally remained within the barrel
10
and has to be discarded at the end of the vaginal irrigation. This undesirably causes waste of vaginal irrigating solution.
In addition, when it is necessary to use the syringe of
FIG. 3
for vaginal irrigation, the cap
30
has to be removed from the mouth of the barrel
10
and is tightened again to the mouth of the barrel
10
with the nozzle
20
positioned outside the barrel
10
as shown in FIG.
4
. In such a case, the cap
30
is removed from the mouth of the barrel
10
prior to removing the nozzle
20
from the barrel
10
. Thereafter, the nozzle
20
is assembled with the cap
30
in a way such that the nozzle
20
is projected from the top surface of the cap
30
. After assembling the nozzle
20
with the cap
30
, the cap
30
is fully tightened again to the mouth of the barrel
10
with the nozzle
20
positioned outside the barrel
10
as shown in FIG.
4
. After a desired vaginal irrigation is accomplished, the nozzle
20
has to be changed from the position of
FIG. 4
to the position of
FIG. 3
by handling the cap
30
and nozzle
20
along with the barrel
10
through a process inverse to that described above. In a brief description, the above syringe for vaginal irrigation forces a user to disassemble and assemble the parts of the syringe before and after every vaginal irrigation, and so said syringe is very inconvenient to users.
Another problem, experienced in the above syringe for vaginal irrigation, resides in that the nozzle
20
has a structural defect. That is, the nozzle
20
is gradually reduced in its diameter in a direction from the outside end to the inside end, and so the labium is expanded in its diameter to allow an insertion of the large-diameter outside end of the nozzle
20
into the vagina through the labium. However, when the nozzle
20
is fully inserted into the vagina, the labium cannot quickly shrink, and so it fails to closely surround the small-diameter inside end of the nozzle
20
, thus remaining a gap between the nozzle
20
and the labium. Therefore, the irrigating solution undesirably flows from the vagina to the outside through the gap and contaminates the hands and the barrel
10
, and so the syringe regrettably makes a user feel unpleasant during a vaginal irrigation.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
Accordingly, the present invention has been made keeping in mind the above problems occurring in the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a syringe for vaginal irrigation, which is easily and effectively used for irrigating monstrous secretions from the vagina particularly during or after a menstruation, thus removing monstrous odor from the vagina and allowing the user to feel refreshed at the vagina in addition to keeping the vagina clean and sanitary.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a syringe for vaginal irrigation, which has a portable and handy size and accomplishes a desired vaginal irrigation effect, and is easily produced through a simple production process in addition to allowing a user to easily and simply assemble and disassemble the parts of the syringe.
In order to accomplish the above object, the present invention provides a syringe for vaginal irrigation, comprising: an elastic barrel containing a vaginal irrigating solution therein, the barrel having an externally-threaded mouth; an L-shaped elbow pipe engaging with the externally-threaded mouth of the barrel at the first end thereof, the first end of the elbow pipe being internally threaded so as to engage with the externally-threaded mouth of the barrel, the elbow pipe being also externally threaded at its second end; and a hollow vaginal ins

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