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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 22, 1999
John Mitchell, Appling, GA (US);
Phillip Jack Snoke, Atlanta, GA (US);
Chris Hamilton, Atlanta, GA (US);
Soma Blue, Inc., Auguasta, GA (US);
Abstract
A disposable penile constriction device and associated methods are provided. The disposable penile constriction device preferably includes a strip of bendable and stretchable material formed in a closed band shape when in a closed position so that inner surface peripheries of the strip of material substantially surround and abuttingly contact outer surface peripheries of a proximal portion of a penis when positioned thereon and a preformed predetermined tear region formed in the strip of material which readily allows tearing of the strip of material by the hand of a user so that the closed band shape is separated to an open position and the strip of material can be readily removed from a proximal portion of a penis without the necessity of moving the strip of material over a distal end of a penis. A method of using a penile constriction device is provided which preferably includes stretching a closed band of material, positioning the stretched closed band of material over a distal end and to a proximal portion of a penis of a user, releasing the stretch of the closed band of material so that inner surface peripheries of the closed band of material abuttingly contact outer surfaces of the proximal portion of the penis, and tearing the band of material in a preformed predetermined tear region thereof with the hand of the user.