Patent ID: 6098210
Filing Date: 2000-08-08
Classification: A47K,A61G

Abstract:
A device for collecting urine or other organic body fluids, comprising a flexible bag made of liquid-impervious sheet material and defining a lower part, means for receiving urine and conducting urine into the bag, and means for preventing urine from leaving the bag through said urine-receiving means, wherein the urine-receiving means is attached to a mounting flange which is welded sealingly to the bag and which is provided with a bottom the underneath surface of which is flat and lies at least partially loosely against the bag wall and which bottom includes an opening approximately at the center of the bottom for the through-passage of urine; said means for preventing comprising a wall part of the bag located beneath said bottom and which has provided therein at least one cut outside the opening provided in said bottom, said at least one cut being disposed so as not to open directly toward the lower part of the bag thereby to form at least one flap which while enabling urine to pass into the bag through said opening functions to close this opening when urine tends to flow back in the reverse direction by being pressed against the flat underneath surface of said bottom by the urine.