Surgery – Means and methods for collecting body fluids or waste material – Receptacle attached to or inserted within body to receive...
Patent
1997-09-30
1999-12-14
Polutta, Mark O.
Surgery
Means and methods for collecting body fluids or waste material
Receptacle attached to or inserted within body to receive...
604349, 604351, A61M 100, A61F 544
Patent
active
06001086&
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a device for removing urine and/or feces, for example in connection with sick and infirm persons.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Devices for urinal care are known, in which the urine is removed by means of a condom and discharged into a leg pouch via a hose section. Apart from the fact that the leg pouch has to be emptied periodically in a troublesome way, empyying of the leg pouch is often not manageable in a hygienically clean and safe way, so that annoyance caused by bad odor is unavoidable. Further, emptying of the leg pouch often requires additional assistance. Moreover, the known devices do not permit removal of feces due to poor flowability of the latter.
The problem of the invention is to create measures for simple and safe removal of urine and feces.
According to the invention, said problem is solved by a quiver-like bag with an inlet opening on the face side for inserting the genital organ or feces, such bag being tightly connected with a tube line which, with the end facing away from the bag, rests against the suction line of a motor-driven, self-aspirating fluid pump feeding with the pressure side into a drain pipe of a washbowl or the like. Preferably, the pressure side of the fluid pump feeds into the drain pipe of the washbowl via a T-shaped piece of pipe. The flexible pipeline may be usefully formed in this connection by a hose or the like, the latter being detachably fixed on the bag or engaging the latter by means of a disconnectable coupling element. Furthermore, it is conceivable that the hose has a disconnectable separation point disposed with a spacing from the bag and the fluid pump, such separation point being lackable and releasable by a coupling element, whereby the coupling elements are designed in the form of quick-action couplings. In this way, a closed conduit system is formed, and it is assured that urine or feces are continuously discharged, whereby transport operations for transporting collection containers or the like are dispensed with. Urine or feces are removed by suction in a clean way by means of the vacuum adjusted in the hose, whereby no unintended or undesirable discharge of urine or feces via the inlet opening to the outside will occur. Finally, the closed conduit system, furthermore, will not cause any annoyance due to bad odor, and spilling of urine or the like is impossible.
For developing the device further, provision is made that the bag or the adjacent hose section has a manually actuated ON/OFF-switch for the driving motor of the fluid pump. In this way, the device can be put into operation by the person using it at any desired time for discharging urine or feces. In addition, it is possible to equip the bag with a pulse transmitter responding to fluid or moisture, whereby the pulses of such transmitter are used for automatically switching the driving motor of the fluid pump on or off. Moreover, it is conceivable that the driving motor of the fluid pump is periodically automatically switched on or off depending on time, using a time-switch, whereby discharge of urine and feces is made possible also for disabled and helpless persons. Furthermore, it is proposed to make the driving motor of the fluid pump remotely controllable, e.g. by actuating it by infrared pulses for switching the device on and off.
For developing the device further, provision is made that the vacuum in the part of the hose on the suction side is manually or automatically changeable or controllable, so that the vacuum can be adapted to the substances such as urine or feces to be discharged.
Furthermore, provision is made that a flexible flushing conduit connected with the pressure water mains, for example a hose is freely or rigidly and substantially tightly attached to the open side of the bag in order to keep the latter, the hose and the fluid pump clean and odorless. The flushing conduit can be connected with the pressure water mains in any desired way. Preferably, the flushing conduit is particularly connectable with the pressure water pipeline leading to the
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