Patent ID: 7172573
Filing Date: 2007-02-06
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
1. A device for use by a female user to self-deposit a solid object or a non-flowable medicament in her vagina, the device including an elongate body which includes a gripping portion and an elongate straight barrel extending from the gripping portion, with a passage, configured to receive a solid object or medicament, extending through the gripping portion and through the barrel, the gripping portion being thick relative to the barrel in at least one transverse dimension and forming a stop for insertion of the device; the passage having an outlet at a free end of the barrel and a portion of the passage, located in the gripping portion, being curved in the longitudinal direction of the passage and a portion of the passage, located in the barrel, being linear; and a flexible ejector or plunger which is slidingly located in the passage and which thus extends through the gripping portion and through the barrel, the flexible ejector being able to follow the curvature of the passage so that it can be displaced by the user along the passage to push a solid object or medicament received in the passage out of the passage through the outlet thereof in the vagina of the user.