# US 9,433,523 B2 · Method of overwrapping a pessary device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 9,433,523 B2 - Document ID: US9433523B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/564,836 - Filed: 2014-12-09 - Published: 2015-04-09 - Granted: 2016-09-06 - Earliest claimed: 2012-06-29 - Assignees: The Procter & Gamble Company - Applicants: The Procter & Gamble Company - Inventors: Robert Clark Avery, Jr.; Evan Joseph Durling; Kevin Charles Strong; Gavin John Broad; Hinrich Knuth; Daniel Raymond Wiegele - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9433523B2 ## CPC - A61F 6/12: Inserters or removers - A61F 6/08: Pessaries, i.e. devices worn in the vagina to support the uterus, remedy a malposition or prevent conception {, e.g. combined with devices protecting against contagion} - A61F 13/55175: {packaging of tampons} - B65B 11/00: Wrapping, e.g. partially or wholly enclosing, articles or quantities of material, in strips, sheets or blanks, of flexible material (bundling articles by applying narrow strips or bands of flexible material B65B13/00) - A61F: FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS (dental prosthetics A61C) - B65B: MACHINES, APPARATUS OR DEVICES FOR, OR METHODS OF, PACKAGING ARTICLES OR MATERIALS; UNPACKING (bundling and pressing devices for cigars A24C1/44; devices for tensioning and securing binders adapted to be supported by the article or articles to be bound B25B25/00; applying closure members to bottles, jars or similar containers B67B1/00-B67B6/00; concurrent cleaning, filling and closing of bottles B67C7/00; emptying bottles, jars, cans, casks, barrels or similar containers B67C9/00) ## Abstract This application relates to a method of covering a pessary device for relief of female incontinence with an overwrap. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods of overwrapping the pessary device. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A pessary device comprising an outer wall, an interior, an external opening to the interior, and one or more external opening to interior engaging members, wherein the pessary device external opening comprises an area of about 0.01 mm2 to about 900 mm2. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The pessary device of claim 1, wherein the external opening to the interior engaging members comprise of triangles, half circles, quarter circles, and/or geometric shapes with points. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The pessary device of claim 1, wherein the pessary device further comprises an overwrap. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The pessary device of claim 3, wherein the outer wall has an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the overwrap contacts the entire outer wall outer surface. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The pessary device of claim 3, wherein the pessary device is disposed within an applicator, wherein the applicator comprises a barrel region and a grip region. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The pessary device of claim 5, wherein the applicator grip region comprises a grip element selected from the group comprising projections, rings, ridges, ribs, embossments, depressions, grooves, and/or other gripping structures. ### Claim 7 (depends on 3) The pessary device of claim 3, wherein the external opening to the interior engaging members engage with the overwrap. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The pessary device of claim 1, wherein the pessary device further comprises a top, a base, and a length. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The pessary device of claim 8, wherein the pessary device top comprises a pressure region and wherein the pessary device bottom comprises a pressure region. ### Claim 10 A pessary product, comprising: a. An applicator comprising a barrel region and a grip region; and b. A pessary device disposed within the barrel region, the pessary device comprising an outer wall, an interior, an external opening to the interior, and one or more external opening to interior engaging members; wherein the pessary device external opening comprises an area of about 0.01 mm2 to about 900 mm2. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The pessary device of claim 10, wherein the external opening to the interior engaging members comprise of triangles, half circles, quarter circles, and/or geometric shapes with points. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The pessary device of claim 10, wherein the pessary device further comprises an overwrap. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The pessary device of claim 12, wherein the outer wall has an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the overwrap contacts the entire outer wall outer surface. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The pessary device of claim 12, wherein the external opening to the interior engaging members engage with the overwrap. ### Claim 15 (depends on 10) The pessary product of claim 10, wherein the applicator grip region comprises a grip element selected from the group comprising projections, rings, ridges, ribs, embossments, depressions, grooves, and/or other gripping structures. ### Claim 16 (depends on 10) The pessary device of claim 10, wherein the pessary device further comprises a top, a base, and a length. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The pessary device of claim 16, wherein the pessary device top comprises a pressure region and wherein the pessary device bottom comprises a pressure region.