Apparatus and method of applying medication
OwnerHope J. Jensen, Elizabeth Thornton +1inventors
InventorsHope J. Jensen, Elizabeth Thornton, Andrew Powell
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Abstract
Various applicators are disclosed. The applicators may be used to deposit medication inside a vagina. In one embodiment, the applicator includes a tube and a bulb. The tube has a stiff cylindrical body having one end connected to the bulb and a flexible membrane arranged at a another end of the tube. The applicator is generally airtight and the orientation of the flexible membrane is controlled by squeezing the bulb. When the bulb is squeezed the flexible membrane inverts to outside the body when the bulb is released the flexible membrane and returns to inside the body.
Claims15
An applicator comprising:
- a tube having a stiff body and a flexible membrane, where the body includes a first end and a second end, where the first end of the body is open and the flexible membrane is arranged at the second end of the body, and where the flexible membrane may be in a first state where the flexible membrane resides in the body and a second state where the flexible membrane resides outside of the body;
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- a bulb attached to the second end of the body, wherein when the bulb is squeezed air in the applicator is moved against the flexible membrane to cause the flexible membrane to be in the second state and when the bulb is released air moves back into the bulb causing the flexible membrane to invert back to the first state.
A method of applying medication comprising:
- obtaining an applicator having a tube and a bulb, wherein the tube has a body having a first end connected to the bulb and a second end with a flexible membrane and wherein the flexible membrane may be in a first state where the flexible membrane resides in the body and a second state where the flexible membrane resides outside of the body;
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- placing medication on the flexible membrane while the flexible membrane resides in the body;
- inserting the applicator into a vagina;
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- inverting the flexible membrane to deposit the medication inside the vagina.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.