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(Model.)
No...
J KORFP
Catamenial Sack.
Patented Dec. 28 1880..
N. PETERS PHOTO-UTHOORAPHER WASHINGTON D C.
UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
JOHN KORFF OF BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS.
CATAMENIAL SACK.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. dated December 28 1880.
Application filed May 11 1880. (Model.)
To all whom it may concern: I In the construction of my pad I form a hol-
Be it known that I JOHN KORFF of Bos- low flexible core preferably of soft paper ton in the county of Suffolk and State of Naas- marked A in the drawings forming a part of sachusetts have invented a new and useful this specification. About this I place the cot
5 Improvement in Menstrual Pads of which the ton or other substance B and secure it thereto. 40 following is a specification. In use the wire loop C is passed through the
The invention relates to the pads worn by core A and the ends secured to suspenders on women during the menstrual period and the a belt about the waist. One or both of the manner of applying the same. suspenders may be elastic so that the appli-
io In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is ancemaygive with themotionsofthebody. By 45 a plan view; Fig. 2 the inclosed wire loop means of buckles or equivalent devices on the and Fig. 3 a sectional view of the device as suspenders the pad is put in position to fully worn. cover the vulva.
The object of this invention is to provide a When it becomes necessary to change the
15 pad which can be worn with comfort and ease pad the front end of the loop C is released 50
which can be readily changed when necessary from its fastening the soiled pad withdrawn
and which will be of so little value that it can a clean one threaded upon the loop and the
be destroyed as soon as removed from the per- I end again secured. The sides of the wire loop
son thus avoiding laundrying a lot of soiled C are given enough spring to hold the pad in
20 napkins as also avoiding having them about place with some firmness to prevent it from 55 the house from the time they are used until moving from its proper position.
sent to be laundried. What I claim is
I am aware that rubber pockets in which to 1. As an article of manufacture a menstrual place a sponge or other absorbent material pad consisting of anabsorbent material wound
25 have been used for this purpose; but such ap- about and secured to a hollow flexible core 6o pliance is bulky and uncomfortable besides substantially as described.
being excessively hot. The ordinary napkin 2. A menstrual pad formed substantially as is open to the same objections; but this device described in combination with the wire loop is entirely unobjectionable on these accounts. C as set forth and described and for the pur-
30 The material which I preferably use is what pose specified. 65
is known as " absorbent cotton " on account of JOHN KORFF. the large amount of moisture which it will take
up and hold; but I can use any other material Witnesses :
without departing from the spirit of my in- FRANK C. Fisinn
35 vention. U. S. G. WHITE.