Vaginal tampons

Claim 1

A VAGINAL TAMPON COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A SHEATHING TUBE HAVING A LEADING END AND A TRAILING END, A BODY OF NORMALLY SOMEWHAT RESILIENT EXPANSIBLE ABSORBENT MATERIAL SLIDABLY CONFINED WITHIN SAID TUBE AND HAVING THE CIRCUMFERENTIAL SURFACE THEREOF COMPLEMENTARY TO THE INTERIOR CIRCUMFERENTIAL SURFACE OF THE TUBE AND FURTHER HAVING APPROXIMATELY THE SAME LENGTH AS THE TUBE, A TUBULAR THRUST MEMBER TELESCOPICALLY CARRIED BY THE TRAILER END OF THE TUBE FOR EXPULSION OF SAID BODY THEREFROM WITH A PULL CORD ATTACHED TO SAID BODY REMOVABLY EXTENDING THROUGH SAID MEMBER, SAID BODY BEING FORMED OF A FIRST PART AND A SECOND PART, SAID SECOND PART EXTENDING A DISTANCE FORWARD FROM THE TRAILING END OF THE TUBE AND HAVING MEANS RESTRAINING THE SAME FROM LATERAL EXPANSION THEREOF UPON DISCHARGE OF THE BODY FROM THE TUBE, SAID FIRST PART OF THE BODY EXTENDING FORWARD FROM THE ADJACENT END OF SAID SECOND PART OF THE BODY SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE LEADING END OF THE TUBE AND BEING UNCONSTRAINED AGAINST LATERAL EXPANSION THEREOF UPON DISCHARGE OF THE BODY FROM THE TUBE WHEREBY SAID FIRST PART OF THE BODY EXPANDS LATERALLY UPON DISCHARGE OF THE BODY INTO THE VAGINAL PASSAGE TO OBSTRUCT THE PASSAGE, SAID FIRST PART OF THE BODY CONSISTING OF HELICALLY WOUND STRANDS OF SAID MATERIAL, SAID TUBE HAVING SPACED INDENTATIONS IN THE LEADING END THEREOF IN WHICH SAID STRANDS REGISTER TO AUGMENT THE SPREADING OF THE STRANDS DURING LATERAL EXPANSION OF SAID FIRST PART OF THE BODY.