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US 5,688,260 AGranted
Reusable fabric feminine hygiene device
OwnerCatherine Carroll Blantoninventor
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Abstract
A reusable, washable, internally worn catamenial device is fabricated by folding a rectangular cloth to produce two elongated side-by-side multilayered cloth tubes. A withdrawal string is looped through both tubes. The folded cloth may be stitched to provide hems along selected edges of the cloth and to provide a central seam which forms and adjoins the tubes.
Claims14
A catamenial device, comprising:
- a single-piece washable, biodegradable fabric base member having a front surface, a first central axis and a second transverse axis perpendicular to said central axis;
- first and second opposed fabric-side panels folded inwardly along said transverse axis toward said central axis and overlying said front surface to produce corresponding first and second said side edges on said base member;
- first and second flaps each incorporating a corresponding one of said first and second panel side edges and being inwardly folded in transverse directions toward and overlapping said central axis;
- means securing said flaps to said base member along said central axis to form first and second elongated, multilayer, side-by-side fabric tubes on said base member;
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- a withdrawal string looped through said tubes.
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A reusable, washable, internally worn feminine hygiene product, comprising:
- a single piece, folded, multilayer washable and biodegradable fabric base member having a front surface, top and bottom transverse edges, and first and second longitudinal side edges on opposite sides of a base member longitudinal central axis;
- first and second flaps consisting of folded sections of said base member, said flaps incorporating said first and second side edges, respectively, parallel to said axis, said flaps extending transversely inwardly toward said axis to overlap each other and to overlie said base member front surface and said axis;
- means securing said folded first and second flaps to said base member along said longitudinal axis to form corresponding first and second elongated, side-by-side, longitudinally extending multilayer fabric tubes on said base member, said tubes extending parallel to said longitudinal axis;
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- a cord extending through said first and second tubes.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.