US2024539A

US2024539A - Pessary

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Publication number: US2024539A
Application number: US581552A
Authority: US
Inventors: Schmid Julius
Original assignee: JULIUS SCHMID Inc
Current assignee: JULIUS SCHMID Inc
Priority date: 1931-12-17
Filing date: 1931-12-17
Publication date: 1935-12-17
Anticipated expiration: 1952-12-17

Description

J. SCHMID D ec., 17, 1935.

PESSARY Filed Dec. 17, 1931 INVENTOR l a f ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 17, 1935.

UNITED STATES PESSARY Julius Schmid, New York, N. Y., assignor to Julius Schmid, Inc., New York, N. Y., a corporation of New York Application December 17, 1931, Serial No. 581,552

1 Claim.

This invention relates to pessaries. The principal objects of the invention are, first, to cushion and reinforce the spring of the pessary so as to cause the same to fit snugly into the uterus without putting undue and hard pressure upon the same; second, to-prevent the spring from working through the surrounding material and becoming exposed; and third, to apply a trade-mark or proprietaryname to the device in such manner that the: same will be sanitary and ineradicable.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds,

- the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes and variations in the combination of parts and in the details of construction may be made within the scope of what is claimed, without department from the Figure 4 is a view partly in elevation showing. a form which has been dipped into a rubber solution and partly coated therewith.

Figure 5 is a view showing the form with the resilient ring applied thereto and partly rolled downward on the form.

Figure 6 is a cross-sectional vice removed from the form- Like reference numerals indicate correspond view of the de-.

ing parts in the different figures of the drawing.

Referring. to Figure 1, the reference numeral l indicates the vagina, 2 the cervix, and 3 indicates generally the improved pessary of this invention in applied position.

joined in anysuitable manner so as to endless spring. Beforethe ends of the spring are brought together and either intermeshed or otherwise spliced or joined, a section of rubber tubing ,5 is

form 831 slipped over the spring so as neatly to encase the same, and when the ends of the spring are joined, one end of the rubber tubing is inserted in the other end so that the two ends overlapeach other and they may be either cemented or left uncemented.

The diaphragm or body 6 of the pessary is fashioned of rubber by either the moulding or the dipping process. I prefer, however, to form In constructing the pessary, a coil spring 4 is employed having itsendsbrought together and (c1. 12&127)

this diaphragm by dipping a suitable form 8. Figures 4 and 5, into either latex or a suitable solution of rubben The rubber adheres to the form in a thin coating corresponding in shape to' the form, and the thickness of the rubber is 5 regulated by the number of dips. During the dipping operation the rim of the diaphragm 6 extends upward upon the form for a distance greater than that shown in Figure 2, as shown in Figure 4. 1 While the unvulcanized rubber is upon the form, the pessary ring composed of the spring 4 and the outer tubing 5 of vulcanized rubber, is stretched and fitted around the form atthe top edgeof the diaphragm 6. By then rolling the 15 spring downward upon the form, with the tubing 5 in contact with the tacky or unvulcanized rim of the diaphragm 6, said rim is caused to wrap itself around the tube 5 and adhere thereto.

Before this operation has been performed the 20 name or trade-mark of the pessary is suitably. stamped upon the tube 5 so that when the rim of the diaphragm 6 is completely wrapped aroundand adheres to the outer surface of said tube 5, the pigments or inks used in stamping said 25 trade-mark name on the tube 5 are completely enclosed within the rim portion of the diaphragm 6, whereby all danger of such ink or pigment becoming a source of contamination or of having the same rubbed oif is avoided.

After the rim portion of the diaphragm 6 has thus been wrapped around or tacked to the tubing 5, the diaphragm portion is vulcanized and left in what is known as transparent condition so that the name and size number or other in- 35 formation printed upon the tubing 5 is clearly readable through the transparent material of the diaphragm rim.

It will be seen that the rubber tube 5 serves to cushion and hold the spring 4 against distortion, without interfering with the action of the spring. I

- What is claimed as new is:

The method of making 'a pessary which comprises surrounding a spring with a tubular cushion arrangement, joining the ends of the spring and cushion to form a ring, applying suitable-indiciato said cushion arrangement, forming a transparent diaphragm by dipping a form; in a suitable solution of unvulcanized rubber; and thereafter securing said ring and diaphragm .to form an integral structure by stretching the ring about the form at the top edge of the dia-'- phragm and rolling the spring downward upon the form with the cushion in contact with the tacky, top edgeof the diaphragm whereby the edge portion is caused to wrap itself around the cushion and over the indicia.

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