Female abdominal exercise device

• US 5,256,123 A
• Filed: 08/19/1991
• Issued: 10/26/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Marsha L. Reinbolt
• Original Assignee: Marsha L. Reinbolt
• Inventors: Reinbolt, Marsha L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Apley, Richard J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BROWNE, LYNNE HAMBLETON
• Application Number:
  US07/746,711
• Time in Patent Office: 799 Days
• Field of Search: 128/778, 482/111, 482/112, 482/113, 482/909, 600/38, 600/39
• US Class Current: 482/113
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/008 using hydraulic or pneumatic force-resisters
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/56 Pressure
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/20 for vaginal muscles or other sphincter-type muscles

Abstract

The subject device is an apparatus structured to help facilitate the process of exercising the internal vaginal muscles, and comprises, in general, a hollow longitudinally extending member capable of being alternately contracted about its lower girth and its upper posterior portion to rhythmatically produce an internal wave action inside the device to both exercise and strengthen the vaginal muscles. The device is used by initially filling the vaginal insert with a fluid to a given volume and pressure determined by the user, through a detachable fill-empty device affixed to the device.

The device is provided with an optional differential pressure flow gauge, or any other differential pressure indicator to measure rhythmatic action and strength of the resulting wave actions.

In its overall form, the subject device is an apparatus comprising a hollow longitudinally extending exercise member capable of being contracted about its girth by the interior vaginal muscles for purposes of exercising such interior muscles for strengthening purposes. Integrally formed inside the subject apparatus are two separate hollow chambers of equal size and generally aligned coaxially with one another. The contractable exercise member can be expanded through internal fluid pressure means with fluid moving back and forth between the respective two chambers, such fluid movement causing a wave action that can be generated by internal pressure or external pressure.

Claims

1. A device for exercising vaginal muscles within a vaginal cavity, such apparatus comprising:

(a) an extending male member having a longitudinally extending central axis and a longitudinally extending hollow member said hollow member extending in the longitudinal direction of the longitudinally extending axis of the longitudinally extending male member, said hollow member having two chambers therein, each chamber being aligned along a common central axis, and wherein said hollow member has a plurality of openings therein which openings extend from the inside of the member to portion outside said member.

2. A device for exercising vaginal walls within a vaginal cavity comprising:

(a) a male member adapted to be inserted in the vaginal cavity, comprised of a flexible and pliable outer shell, and wherein said male member has a hollow member extending along the longest portion of said male member, said hollow member being divided into two separate longitudinally and coaxially aligned chambers divided by an internal wall, said internal wall having two openings therein communicating said aligned chambers with one another, and wherein said aligned chambers are of equal size and shape; and

wherein said hollow member has a plurality of openings therein, with such openings extending from the aligned chambers inside said hollow member to spatial areas outside said hollow member.

3. A device for exercising vaginal walls within a vaginal cavity, and adapted to be inserted longitudinally inside a vaginal cavity, said device comprising:

(a) a male member having a longitudinal central axis, said male member being adapted to be inserted longitudinally inside a vaginal cavity, said male member being comprised of a flexible external surface, and wherein said male member has two separate internal chambers, specifically a first internal chamber and a second internal chamber, with the first internal chamber and said second internal chamber being of equal size and shape and with said first internal chamber and said second internal chamber being coaxially aligned with one another along the longitudinal central axis of the male member, with said first internal chamber and said second internal chamber each having an internal spatial area therein;

(b) internal wall means separating said first internal chamber and said second internal chamber, said wall means having two separate apertures therein that communicate the internal spatial area of the first internal chamber with the internal spatial area of the second internal chamber;

(c) first containment means with an outer surface and second containment means, with an outer surface, each comprised of pliable material, with said first containment means having an inside space therein and said second containment means having an inside space, and wherein said first containment means has a plurality of openings in its surface and said second containment means has a plurality of openings in its outer surface, said first containment means being disposed inside said first internal chamber, with a surrounding spatial area existing outside the outer surface of said first containment means within the first internal chamber, and said second containment means being disposed inside said second internal chamber, with a surrounding spatial area outside the outer surface of said second containment means within the second internal