Patent ID: 6024696
Filing Date: 2000-02-15
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
A vaginal expander comprising:(a) top and bottom blades of substantial width along their lengths adapted to be held together facing each other for insertion into a vagina and connected to means to move the top and bottom blades apart relative to each other in a substantially directly opposing relationship, such that the bottom blade is maintainable in a lower position while the top blade is movable upward therefrom to form an open position, whereby the bottom blade comprises a first blade section having two long edges, a longitudinal axis, an inside surface, and an outside surface adapted to be inserted into a vagina and oppose a vaginal canal surface; and(b) a first side wall support blade with a length generally parallel to the longitudinal axis is adapted to be connected to a first hinging means substantially rotationally parallel with the longitudinal axis of the first blade section whereby the first side wall support blade may be rotated about the first hinging means from a first position generally parallel to the longitudinal axis and close to the inside surface to a second position generally parallel to the longitudinal axis but providing side wall support during a vaginal exam when the top and bottom blades are in the open position.