Fibrous plug for sucking tube
AssigneeFujihara Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroshi Mori, Hisashi Asoh
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Abstract
A fibrous plug to be inserted in a sucking tube for use for collecting and preserving sperma, fertilized ovum or the like in artificial fertilization or transplantation for human and animals, composed of a gelatinizing material component present in a gas-permeable dispersed form and a supporting fiber component, wherein the gelatinizing material component is distributed finely among the supporting fiber component, so as to permit swelling of the gelatinizing material upon contact with a water-containing substance, such as sperma or the like, to build up an intrgrated water-tight sealing stopper together with the supporting fiber component.
Claims12
A fibrous plug to be inserted in a sucking tube, comprising fibers of a gelatinizing material and supporting fibers, wherein the gelatinizing material fibers are distributed finely among the supporting fibers.
A fibrous plug to be inserted in a sucking tube, comprising fibers of a supporting material each coated with a layer of a gelatinizing material.
A fibrous plug to be inserted in a sucking tube, comprising supporting fibers bound with each other by a gelatinizing material, prepared by dispersing the gelatinizing material in a liquid form among heaped mass of the supporting fibers and, then, solidifying the gelatinizing material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.