Apparatus for auto-vaginoscopy

Claim 1

A DEVICE FOR INTERNAL INSPECTION OF THE VAGINA COMPRISING: A TUBULAR SPECULUM, FOR INSERTION INTO THE VAGINA, HAVING AN ENLARGED FLANGE AT ONE END THEREOF, THE OTHER END OF THE SPECULUM TERMINATING IN A PLANE INCLINED AT A PREDETERMINED ANGLE TO THE AXIS OF THE SPECULUM; A SELFCONTAINED OPTICAL UNIT COMPRISING A BASE MEMBER, A LIGHT SOURCE MOUNTED ON SAID BASE MEMBER AND COMPRISING A LAMP, AT LEAST ONE BATTERY, AND A CONNECTING CIRCUIT INCLUDING A SWITCH INTERCONNECTING THE LAMP AND THE BATTERY, AND A MIRROR MOUNTED ON SAID BASE MEMBER IN ADJUSTABLE RELATION TO SAID LAMP; MEANS RELEASABLY MOUNTING SAID OPTICAL UNIT ON SAID SPECULUM FLANGE, SAID MOUNTING MEANS COMPRISING A MOUNTING MEMBER AFFIXED TO SAID BASE MEMBER OF SAID OPTICAL UNIT AND ENGAGEABLE IN GRIPPING RELATION WITH A MAJOR PERIPHERAL PORTION OF SAID SPECULUM FLANGE, BY LINEAR RELATIVE MOVEMENT THEREBETWEEN, WITHOUT REQUIRING VISUAL OBSERVATION THEREOF, SAID MOUNTING MEANS PERMITTING ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT OF SID SPECULUM RELATIVE TO SAID OPTICAL UNIT WITHOUT REQUIRING DISENGAGEMENT OF SAID BASE MEMBER FROM THE SPECULUM FLANGE; AN ANNULAR MANIPULATION MEMBER AFFIXED TO SAID SPECULUM ADJACENT SAID FLANGE TO AFFORD A MEANS FOR ROTATING THE SPECULUM, WHEN IN POSITION OF USE, INDEPENDENTLY OF ROTATION OF THE OPTICAL UNIT, SAID MANIPULATION MEMBER EXTENDING OUTWARDLY OF THE SPECULUM FLANGE AND THE MOUNTING MEANS; AND INDEXING MEANS ON SAID MANIPULATION MEMBER FOR INDICATING THE ANGULAR ORIENTATION OF THE SPECULUM.