Body-worn All Disposable Urinal

Abstract

A body-worn and all disposable urinal having a collar for receiving a male organ, a plurality of telescopically mounted bags having open ends secured to the collar, the outer bag having a sealed chamber for containing urine and the inner bag having an opening for urine to be discharged to the outer bag, the collar having a pair of opposed openings for receiving a length of pliable material that encircles the person's waist and fastens the collar in position on the person's body.

Description

This invention relates to a body-worn disposable urinal and is an improvement of my copending patent application, Ser. No. 562,261, filed on Jul. 1, 1966, and issued on Oct. 15, 1968, as U.S. Pat. No. 3,405,714.

The disposable urinal shown and described in the specification of my patent is disposable only as to the plastic bags which collect the urine, the collar and straps having to be continually reused. The present invention contemplates a disposable urinal that is completely and entirely disposable wherein the straps, collar and urine bags are disposed and replaced by a complete unit.

Therefore a principal object of the present invention is to provide a completely disposable body-worn urinal intended for use primarily for bed or hospital patients as well as for ambulant persons requiring such a device wherein the entire unit is disposable and a new urinal replacing the old one after use thereof.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a completely disposable body-worn urinal fabricated of inexpensive materials as well as being of simple construction and most effective to receive and retain the urine of a bedridden patient and ambulatory persons and including male children, youths and adults who are habitual bed wetters.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a completely disposable body-worn urinal which does away with the need to sterilize parts thereof for reuse but instead utilizes a short length of a tubing for a collar to which plastic film bags are sealed and ordinary string or bandage for fastening the urinal properly to the person's body.

A still further object of the present invention is to provide a body-worn all disposable urinal adapted particularly for hospitalized and bedridden male patients.

With these and other objects in view, the invention will be best understood from a consideration of the following detailed description from a consideration of the following detailed description taken in connection with accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, with the understanding, however, that the invention is not confined to any strict conformity with the showing of the drawing but may be changed or modified so long as such changes or modifications mark no material departure from the salient features of the invention as expressed in the appended claims.

In the drawing:

FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of a disposable urinal fabricated in accordance with my invention and shown positioned on a male person which is indicated by dotted lines.

FIG. 2 is a side elevational view.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view of my disposable urinal.

FIG. 4 is a longitudinal cross-sectional view taken through the collar and bag assembly.

Referring to the drawing wherein like numerals are used to designate similar parts throughout the several views, the numeral 10 refers to my disposable urinal shown by FIGS. 1 and 2 as it is positioned on a person's body. My disposable urinal 10 consists generally of a plurality of urine bags A and B fastened at their open upper ends to a collar C which in turn is held in position on a person's body by a length of disposable string, muslin or bandage material D.

The collar C consists of a short length of plastic tubing 11 having a pair of oppositely positioned openings 12 and 13 punched therein, the openings 12 and 13 being positioned in proximity of the upper edge of the collar 11.

Affixed to the periphery of the collar 11 by heat sealing are the upper open ends of the plastic bags A and B.

The inner plastic bag A whose construction is explained in greater detail in my patent is sealed along its free edges to form a chamber 14 for receiving the urine and having a discharge outlet 15 at its lower end. The outlet 15 operates as a flutter valve permitting the discharge of urine from the bag A into collection bag B but will not permit the back flow of urine from the urine collection bag B back to the bag A.

The urine collection bag B is a fluidtight receptacle open at its upper end 16 which is sealed to the outer periphery of the collar C forms a fluidtight chamber 17 having its edges heat sealed. Simultaneously with the heat sealing of the bottom edge 18 of the urine collection bag B, a plastic ribbon 19 is heat or thermostatically sealed thereto. The plastic ribbon 19 forms a strap for securing the lower end of the urinal 10 about a person's leg as shown by FIGS. 1 and 2, the ends of the ribbon 19 being tied together as shown.

The collar C is held in position to retain the male organ therein by a length of material such as string, ribbon or muslin bandage D.

The length of string D is threaded through the opening 13 in the collar C to its midposition where a knot 20 is tied. Then the urinal 10 is placed against a person's body at the crotch to receive the male organ and the two ends of the string D is brought upwardly as at 21, 21 in the middle of a person's buttocks to his waist. There another knot 22 is tied at the waist and each length 23, 24 of string is wound about the person's waist to the front side of the person where a further knot 25 is formed. Both strings 26 and 27 are brought downwardly from the knot 25, with one of the strings 26 being threaded through the opening 12 and pulled upwardly to meet the string 27 where they are tied together as at 28. The strap 19 is then wound about the person's leg and the ends tied together.

The urinal 10 is now in proper position to receive and retain the urine of a hospitalized, bedridden or other persons requiring such a device. The inner plastic bag A will receive the urine and permit its discharge through the flutter valve 15 into the outer urine containing pouch B. No matter what reclining position is assumed by the user of my disposable urinal, none of the urine contained in the outer bag B will leak or spill therefrom. When it is desired to remove the urinal 10 from the patient, all that need be done is to snip or cut the string D and strap 19, remove the urinal 10 from the person's body and discard the entire urinal 10. A new complete urinal 10 with the strings D and 19 affixed thereto is replaced on the person's body as explained hereinabove.

It is to be noted that preferably the bags A and B are of pliable plastic material while the collar C can be fabricated from a plastic tube cut into desired lengths. However, since the urinal 10 is to be entirely disposable, the least expensive materials are to be used in the fabrication of my urinal 10 provided they are impervious to urine and the collar C be sufficiently rigid to retain a man's organ securely and without irritation thereto.

Claims

I claim:

1. A body-worn and all disposable urinal comprising a tubular member having a pair of substantially oppositely positioned openings adjacent one edge, a pair of telescopically mounted bag means having an open end portion secured to said tubular member forming an inner and an outer bag, said outer bag having an enclosed chamber, said inner bag having an opening forming a flutter valve for the flow of urine from said inner bag to said enclosed chamber of said outer bag, a length of pliable material received by one of said openings in said tubular member, folded on itself and knotted at said one of said openings, again knotted at substantially the rear waist portion of a person's body, extending each end of said pliable material about the waist of the person's body to the front portion thereof and knotting the pliable material, extending one end of said pliable material downwardly to be received by said other opening in said tubular member and extending upwardly to be knotted with the other end of said pliable material.