Note: Descriptions are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.
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Inventor: John L. Chaney
MALE ORGAN CONDITIONER
Backqround of the Invention
This invention relates to a device for assisting
a male to obtain and maintain an erection of his penis
to enable performing sexual intercourse.
Medical literature reveals that males at all
ages sometimes inexplicably lose the capability of
obtaining an erection for a variety of reasons and
even without apparent reasons. In some cases there are
psychological causes and in other cases physiological
causes underlying the inability to obtain or maintain
an erection. Regardless of the cause of impotency,
however, in most cases the male maintains the desire
and urge to indulge in intercourse.
Development of a penile erection is, of course,
dependent on a complex interaction of psychological
and physiological factors which are not clearly under-
stood but the anatomical phenomena associated with
successful erection are well known. The penis is com-
posed of erectile tissue arranged in three longitudinal
columns bonded by fibrous tissue. Erectile tissue has
a spongelike structure containing cavernous spaces for
being occupied by blood. These spaces are fed by
arterioles and capillaries and are drained by small
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flow restricting veins. Muscle fibers traverse the
walls of the spaces and surround their discharge veins.
When the penis is induced to erect, arterioles feeding
the spaces dilate, the muscle fibers around the spaces
relax, and the muscle controlling the venous outlets
contract to restrict blood discharge from the caverns.
The cavernous spaces in the erectile tissue expand as
blood is pumped through them at high pressure and the
penis becomes hard and erect. Thus, the natural erec-
tion process is basically a matter of capturing andholding pressurized blood in the cavernous tissues of
the penis~
Surgically implantable devices have been developed
for enabling a male subject to simulate a natural penile
erection. Typically, one or more longitudinally ex-
tending expansible sacs are implanted in the penis and
connected through a fluid system having check valves
to a fluid filled bulb that can be massaged externally
for pumping the fluid into the sac to thereby simulate
the natural process. Some implants cause permanent
erections. Implantation of some of the artificial
devices result in permanent destruction of the nerve
and blood vessel passages such that a natural erection
can never again be obtained. All the implant tech-
niques require the subject to spend some time in ahospital. The hospital and surgical expense is known
to be substantial.
In the prior art there is one device which can
be applied externally of the penis for maintaining,
but not attaining, an erection. The device is called
a pubis ring. It is intended for use primarily by
those males who, when excited, can develop an erection
but cannot maintain it for a long enough time to
satisfy themselves and their mate during intercourse.
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The pubis ring is designed to keep the blood in the
penis once it has been pressurized by natural re-
action to sexual stimuli. It cannot help in cases
where there is a minimal erection or none at all.
The pubis ring comprises a loop whose opposite ends
enter the opposite ends of a flexible sleeve. The
two ends emerge together out of a radial hold in the
sleeve. The loop is slipped back to the root of the
penis at a time when the subject perceives as a result
of prior experience that his erection is likely to be
at its maximum even though he may remember that there
were times in the past when it could become larger and
more rigid. When maximum is perceived, the cords of
the loop are snubbed to trap the pressurized blood in
the penis. The erection can then be maintained for
its intended purpose. Disadvantages of the pubic ring
are that it requires some dexterity to secure and
focusing attention on the securing problem can be dis-
tracting enough to cause the tentative erection to dis-
appear prior to usage.
Summary of the Invention
One object of the invention is to provide a de-
vice that not only helps a male to maintain an erection
when natural processes have provided one but also per-
mits attaining and maintaining an erection where, for
possibly unknown reasons, the natural process of
filling the penis caverns with pressurized blood and
restricting the outflow does not occur A further ob-
ject of the invention is to provide an erection ob-
taining and maintaining device that, in one form, not
only assists the male, but, in addition, provides for
massaging the female clitoris so as to enhance the
pleasure of the event.
A still further object is to provide an accessory
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that enables the male to put the new penis condi-
tioning device in a state of readiness for prompt use
when the occasion arises.
Briefly stated, the basic form of the erection
assisting device comprises an elastic ring centered
between two elastic loops which are attached to the
periphery of the ring on its opposite sides or at the
first and third quadrants of the ring. The loops are
used to stretch the ring radially outwardly to en-
large its opening sufficiently for it to fit over the
root of the penis where it is released and contracts
to pinch off the blood vessels leading to and from the
penis. The user must then massage blood forwardly
into the penis by strokes applied with the hand and
fingers beginning substantially rearwardly of the
scrotum to thereby develop local blood pressure
sufficient to overcome the sealing force of the ring
and pressurize the caverns in the penis which results
in an erection.
Another form of the device has loops attached
at all four quadrants of the ring, the loops in the
first and third quadrants being used for applying it
to the penis and a loop in the second quadrant being
positioned for massaging the vagina over the clitoris
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An accessory is also provided which facilitates
storing the device with its elastic ring pre-stretched
or expanded on a rigid ring that can be placed ~n the
penis so the elastic ring can be easily transferred
to the root of the penis.
How the foregoing objects and other more specific
objects of the invention are achieved will become
evident in the more detailed description of embodiments
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of the new device which will now be set forth in
reference to the drawing.
Descr~ption of the Drawin~
FIGURE 1 is a plan view of one embodiment of the
new male organ erection obtaining and maintaining de-
vice;
FIGURE 2 is a sectional view taken on a line
corresponding with 2-2 in FIGURE 1;
FIGURE 3 is a view of the device in FIGURE 1
distended by use of the fingers of the hand to a con-
dition wherein it is ready for being placed over the
penis and located at its root;
FIGURE 4 is a plan view of an alternative form
of the organ conditioning device;
FIGURE 5 shows the device of FIGURE 1 associated
with an accessory for putting the device into a condi~
tion for application to the penis;
FIGURE 6 is comparable to the preceding figure
except that the conditioning device is installed on
the accessory; and,
FIGURE 7 shows the organ conditioning device set
on a ring that has been removed from the accessory
such that the ring may be slid to the root or base of
the penis and the device rolled off of it for per-
forming its blood capturing function.
Description of a Preferred Embodiment
In FIGURE 1 one may see that the first embodiment
of the erection obtaining and maintaining device cGm-
prises a central elastic ring 10 and a pair of laterally
extending integral elastic loops 11 and 12. The central
ring 10 should be round but loops 11 and 12 need not be
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substantially semicircular as shown but could be
almost al1y shape such as a 3-sided square that would
provide for openings 13 and 14 into which the fingers
may be entered for expanding the central ring. The
central ring has an opening 15 which allows it, when
expanded, to be passed over the penis down to its root.
It is desirable to have the ends 16, 17, 18 and 19,
for example, of the loops join with the periphery of
the central rin~ in horizontal plans substantially
above and below a parallel horizontal plane through
the center of ring 10 so that when the loops are
stretched laterally the central ring will expand or
open more symmetrically. In geometrical terms, one
loop is in the first quadrant of the ring 10 and the
other is in the third quadrant. Thus, the four points
of connection 16, 17 and 18, 19 between loops 12 and
11, respectively, and central ring 10 are equiangularly
spaced around the ring 10 so the ring will stretch out
more uniformly in response to stress created by the
loops.
The device in FIGURE 1 is molded of an elasto-
meric material such as natural or silicone or other
synthetic rubber having a durometer number in the
range of 40 to 60. A durometer number of about 55 is
preferred. The central ring 10 must have an appro-
priate rim 9 thickness and opening 15 diameter to adapt
properly to all males. Thus, large, medium and small
sizes should be provided. ~y way of example and not
limita~ion, in presently available devices, one siæe,
when still unstretched, provides an opening 15 havincj
a ~ia~eter O~ 0.93~ O~ an ~nch and t~1e diame~et ~ ~h~
rim for ring 10 which is shown in section in FIGURE 2,
is on the order of 0.156 of an inch. Thus, the total
outside diameter of central ring 10 is about 1.1 inches.
In two other sizes, the diameters of the opening in
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rings 10 are 0.813 and 0.688 of an inch, respectively.
In these two sizes, the diameter of the cross-section
of the rim 9 is again about 0.156 of an inch. The dia-
meter and tension in the inner ring 10 is critical
relative to the user's penis since the inner ring is
ultimately slipped over the penis to its root where
it must develop enough radially inward compressive
force to prevent venous blood from emerging from the
penis after arterial blood is forced into its caverns
prior to use of the erected organ.
The device, prepared for application to the
penis, is depicted in FIGURE 3. To use the device,
two or three fingers 20 on the left hand and a similar
number of fingers 21 on the right hand are inserted in
the outside loops 11 and 12, respectively,after which
the fingers are spread simply for the purpose of en-
larging the vertical dimension of the hole 15 in
central ring 10. Simultaneously, the left and right
hands are spread away from each other to increase the
lateral dimension of hole 15. After having been
stretched orthogonally, the central ring 10 is passed
over the penis to its root and the fingers are removed.
Due to the elasticity of the rim 9 in the originally
circular central ring 10, the ring contracts to a cir-
cular form again when the stretching force of thefingers is removed. If the proper size has been chosen,
the central ring 10 contracts sufficiently to inhibit
normal ingress and egress of blood to and from the penis.
After the device is installed as just described,
the prospective user deposits his fingers in the crotch
some distance behind the scrotum and performs a for-
wardly massaging action to induce forward blood flow
and overcome the restrictive radially inward compressive
force of central ring and thereby force blood into the
previously mentioned caverns of the penis. The
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massaging action is repeated until the penis becomes
satisfactorily large and rigid in which case it is
ready for coition. Although the massaging action will
force blood to the penis, it cannot back flow because
of the relatively high tension of the rim 9 forming
center ring 10. The device acts as a check valve.
FIGURE 4 shows another embodiment of the device
wherein parts that are similar to those in FIGURE 1
are given the same reference numerals. Thus, there
is a central ring 10 having a hold 15 and two laterally
extending loops 11 and 12. In this embodiment, there
are two additional vertically arranged loops 25 and 26.
They are in the second and fourth quadrants relative to
ring 10. In other words one pair of loops are orthogonal
relative to the other pair. When the central ring 10
is installed on the penis as previously described in
reference to FIGURE 3, the user desirably arranges loops
25 and 26 in a vertical attitude, that is, directly above
and directly below the root of the penis. This con-
templates having the loops 25 and 26 aligned with thevagina of the female such that during coition, which-
ever of the loops 25 or 26 is on top, will exert some
pressure on the region containing the clitoris which
can be massaged and stimulated by movements of the loop.
Of course, one of the loops 25 or 26 could be eliminated
at the expense of making the device unsymmetrical. Loops
25 or 26 could also be narrower than the other loops.
An accessory is depicted in FIGURES 5-7 for making
use of the erection obtaining and maintaining device
more convenient and prompt as circumstances dictate.
The accessory body is composed of a conical portion 30
and a coaxial integral cylindrical portion 31. These
parts may be molded unitarily with a thermosetting resin.
The diameter of the cylinder is less than the diameter
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of the base of the cone to thereby create a shoulder.
plastic sleeve 32 fits over cylindrical portion 31
and is retained by a tapered pin 33 which fits into
a mating hole in cylinder 31. The outside diameter
of the sleeve is no greater than the cone base dia-
meter. As shown in FIGURE 5, the central ring 10 of
the device is aligned with the apex of cone 30 and is
brought down and slid over the cone to expand the
central elastic ring 10 for it to slide onto rigid
plastic sleeve 32. It has been found that wetting the
ring or the cone makes it more slippery and facili-
tates sliding it along the cone onto the rigid sleeve
more easily.
After the elastic ring is slid onto rigid plastic
sleeve 32, pin 33 is removed and sleeve 32 can be with-
drawn with elastic ring 10 of the device deposited on
it as in FIGURE 7. The internal diameter of plastic
sleeve 32 is sufficient Eor the plastic ring to slide
freely over the male penis. It is desirable to have
the elastic ring 10 of the device deposited at one
axial end of the rigid sleeve 32 so that when this end
is brought up against the body adjacent the root of
the penis, the ring 10 and the entire device can be
rolled off the rigid sleeve to deposit the device on
the penis.
One of the merits of the accessory depicted in
FIGURES 5-7 is that the installation of the elastic
ring 10 on rigid sleeve 32 can be done far in advance
of expected use of the device so it will be ready for
quick and easy installation on the penis when its use
is desired. The device can be mounted on rigid sleeve
32 as shown in FIGURE 7 and carried in the pocket of
a male who contemplates its use in the not too distant
future without having to carry along the conical
accessory body to the site of use. In fact, extra
sleeves may be made available to permit mounting more
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than one device on a rigid sleeve in case a situation
develops requiring a sequence of uses of the device
at a site remote from where the accessory body is
stored.
Although preferred embodiments of the male organ
conditioner device have been described in detail, such
description is intended to be illustrative rather than
limiting, for the invention may be variously embodied
and is to be limited in scope only by interpretation
of the claims which follow.
