Patent ID: 8172104
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A medical waste disposal apparatus, comprising: a base panel, having a first side and a second side; at least one side panel, disposed adjacent the base panel, and movable between an open position, and a closed position over the first side of the base panel; a first retaining member disposed on the first side of the base panel, the retaining member being operably configured to receive a waste article when the at least one side panel is in its open position, and hold the waste article in position adjacent the first side of the base panel, to enable the at least one side panel to be moved from its open position to its closed position, to capture the waste article within the medical waste disposal apparatus; and at least one selectively repositionable stabilizing member, operably associated with the base panel and at least one of the at least one side panel, for enabling the at least one side panel to be placed into maintained in and subsequently moved from, any one of a plurality of desired positions, relative to the base panes once said at least one side panel is placed into said one position by a user of the apparatus.