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US 2014/0155809 A1Published application
Tampon applicator
AssigneeUnicharm Corporation
InventorsKenta Taniguchi, Yukihiro Ito, Kouichi Yamaki
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Abstract
A tampon applicator comprises: an outer tube, in which an absorber stored inside, an aperture is disposed on one side thereof wherethrough the absorber is extruded, and a grip unit is disposed on the other side thereof; an inner tube which extrudes the absorber by moving within the outer tube; an auxiliary grip member. The auxiliary grip member further comprises a cover unit which covers the outer circumference surface of the grip unit, and collar unit which extends radially outwards from the outer circumference surface of the cover unit of the outer tube.
Claims7
A tampon applicator, comprising:
- an outer tube with an absorber stored inside;
- an inner tube which is inserted inside the outer tube, which is movable towards into the outer tube to push the absorber to the outside of the outer tube;
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- an auxiliary grip member,
- wherein an aperture by which the absorber is to be pushed out is formed at one end of the outer tube, and a grip unit to configured to be gripped by the user is formed at the other end of the outer tube,
- the auxiliary grip member includes a cover unit configured to cover an outer circumference surface of the grip unit of the outer tube, and a collar unit extending radially outwards from an outer circumferential surface of the cover unit of the outer tube.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.