Improvements in medicated tampons / [Edmund Morse Pond].

  • Pond, Edmund Morse.
Date:
1905
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Credit: Improvements in medicated tampons / [Edmund Morse Pond]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^°723 A.D. 1904 Date of Application. 11th Jan., 1904—Accepted, 5th Jan., 1905 COMPLETE SPECIFICATION. Improvements in Medicated Tampons. I, Edmund Morse Pond, Physician and Surgeon, of 29 South Main Street, ltutland, Vermont, United States of America, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement; 5 My invention has relation to improvements in medicated tampons, and the object is to provide an improved tampon particularly useful for internal medica¬ tion of the uterine system, or of the rectum; another object is to simplify the construction and assemblage of elements of the known tampons consisting of a body of fibrous material provided with fragile restraining cords at intervals 10 to compress the body and a strand threaded under the cords to cut the latter and permit the body to expand. I accomplish the objects of the improvements by the means, elements, or appliances illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification and wherein: 15 Kg. 1 is a view of the compressible and expansive material used as the interior body of the tampon. Fig. 2 is a detail view of the compressible and expansive interior body com¬ pressed at the middle by the string and folded down on itself preliminary to insertion in the dissoluble gelatinous case. *20 Fig. 3 is a longitudinal central section of the dissoluble gelatinous case. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal central section through the gelatinous casing showing (he capsule as inserted and held in place by the compressed material. Fig. 5 is a detail view showing the probable form assumed by the expansible absorbent material after the gelatinous casing has been removed by dissolution, 2*) and the capsule as remaining integral subject to dissolution by the action of the exudations of the parts. In making up, assembling and aggrouping the several parts of my improved tampon, a case or shell 1 of soluble gelatinous substance is formed, ibis consists of an elongated cylindrical or round body of tapering or ovate shape, having a rounded closed end 2, and at its other or base formed with a suitable opening 3, a turned-in annular flange 4 being made around the opening. The soluble gelatinous case is made of such diameter and length as may suit it for the purposes intended, and the opening in the end is of such diameter as to permit the introduction of the absorbent material to the interior without detriment to 3^ the flange or body of the case. The flange 4 it will be perceived retains the absorbent material after it has been inserted and arranged within the casing. A soluble gelatinous capsule 5 is provided. This is a shell of proper shape to fit within and be seated at the inner closed end of the casing 1. This capsule fmay be approximately semi-spherical or conical in general contour, but in either 40 formation having a flat or slightly concaved base, to set upon or against the end of the absorbent material when that is expanded, as indicated in Fig. 5 of the drawings, so that when the outer case is dissolved the material forming the capsule walls will be subjected to the effects of the exudation and be eventually dissolved and the medicated contents be distributed and administered directly to the effected area. [Price 45