Vagina cleansing device

• US 4,950,231 A
• Filed: 03/30/1990
• Issued: 08/21/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Su-Haw Liu
• Original Assignee: Su-Haw Liu
• Inventors: Liu, Su-Haw
• Primary Examiner(s): Rosenbaum, C. Fred
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lewis, William W.
• Application Number:
  US07/503,117
• Time in Patent Office: 144 Days
• Field of Search: 600/29, 604/39-42, 604/82-85, 604/113, 604/114, 604/187, 604/271, 604/275, 604/279, 604/280, 604/283, 604/288, 604/257
• US Class Current: 604/39
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3653 by Joule effect, i.e. electric resistance
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/0245 Containers therefor, e.g. with heating means or with storage means for cannula
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/0258 by means of electric pumps
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 3/0279 Cannula; Nozzles; Tips; their connection means

Abstract

A vagina cleansing device has a cleansing bar, a connecting tube and a control case. The cleansing bar can be inserted in the vagina properly, through the connecting tube, the controlling case having a water tank storing water or sterilizing solution, in order to supply water or the water mixed with sterilizing solution in washing or sterilizing the vagina.

Claims

1. A vagina cleaning device comprising:

an enlongated cleansing bar having a long small diameter and having an inner longitudinal water passage and a plurality of outlet openings at an outer end thereof;

a connecting tube being connected to a rear end of the cleansing bar and connected at its other end to a source of cleansing water;

a trumpet shaped cap increasing in (a) diameter from its front end to its rear end, (b) having a plurality of longitudinal grooves on its outer face from the front end to the rear end to facilitate the flow of water which has passed out through the outlet openings of the cleansing bar, (c) having a round opening at its front end to fit snugly and adjustably around the outer surface of the cleansing bar and (d) being adjustably connected thereto such that the length of the bar to be inserted into the vagina is adjustable according to the needs of a user; and

a control case having a water tank for storing water to be fed to the connecting tube and a pump for drawing water in the tank through a control case outlet to the connecting tube, said control case having an inlet, and means for directing water received at said control case inlet either to the tank or bypassing the tank, directly to the control case outlet, and said control case having room therein beside the tank for storing the cleansing bar, cap and connecting tube.

2. A vagina cleaning device according to claim 1, said tank further including a heating means for heating the water in the tank before said water is delivered to the connecting tube.

3. A vagina cleansing device according to claim 1, wherein said cleansing bar includes at least one longitudinal groove along an outer surface adjacent an inner end of said cleansing bar;

and further including positioning pegs which are threadably received in said cap and which engage said groove of said cleansing bar for adjustably connecting the cap to the cleansing bar.