Patent ID: 6363541
Filing Date: 2002-04-02
Classification: A47K

Abstract:
An elongated portable, disposable container for collecting, absorbing and retaining urine for one handed user operation, the container comprising:a continuous, resiliently deformable collar member for biasing a mouth opening of the container outwardly and maintaining the mouth opening in a normally open configuration for single handed use of the urine collecting container, with the collar member providing unimpeded access to the interior of the container in the open configuration; a nonpermeable and flexible outer layer substantially and permanently enclosing the collar member and defining an internal pocket having sidewalls and one closed endwall and defining an outer gripping surface for one hand of the user; a liquid absorbent inner layer lining the internal pocket up to the collar member and attached by one of thermal bonding, adhesive bonding and stitching to the outer layer along substantially an entire outer surface of the inner layer, wherein the inner layer forms a surface of the internal pocket and is made of a material selected from the group consisting of cotton, wood pulp fluff, and porous fiber matrix containing one of a superabsorbent polymer and a hydrogel and is adapted to absorb between about 50 and 500 cubic centimeters of urine, and wherein the container is further adapted to retain solid waste material deposited in the internal pocket, and wherein the container is adapted to be used with one hand by a user.