Patent ID: 8231840

Claim:
A feces collection container including a suspension, a suspension storage container having an opening at a tip end and capable of storing the suspension inside thereof and a sample collecting member provided with a sample bearing portion at a tip end for a sample made of feces to adhere thereto and attachable to the suspension storage container at the opening at the tip end in a closely-attached state while the sample bearing portion is inserted into the suspension storage container, and configured in such a manner that the sample collecting member is attached to the suspension storage container while the sample bearing portion is dipped in the suspension, the feces collection container being characterized in that: the suspension storage container has a flat portion across a specific region including a tail end; the flat portion has an outer peripheral wall forming a flat outer peripheral surface and a partition wall extending in a flat cross section of the outer peripheral wall in a minor axis direction substantially orthogonal to a major axis direction of the flat cross section to partition a chamber inside the outer peripheral wall into plural chambers aligned side by side in the major axis direction, so that the suspension is stored only in part of the plural partitioned chambers, and that a sealing member having an outline almost identical with an outline of the outer peripheral wall is laminated on tail end surfaces of the outer peripheral wall and the partition wall; the suspension storage container and the sample collecting member are provided with screw portions and the sample collecting member is attachable to the suspension storage container through threaded engagement of the screw portions, and the sample bearing portion includes plural concave grooves formed on an outer peripheral surface at a tip end of the sample collecting member to align side by side in an axial direction; and the suspension storage container includes a cylinder portion in proximity to the opening and dimensioned to remove extra feces adhering onto outer surface areas of the sample bearing portion as the sample bearing portion passes through the cylinder portion and scraping claws formed in positions to be soaked in the suspension when the suspension storage container opening faces up, the scraping claws being dimensioned and disposed to be introduced successively into the respective concave grooves in association with a translation of the sample collecting member with respect to the suspension storage container caused by a tightening of the screw portions so that the scraping claws scrape off the feces inside the concave grooves by undergoing relative displacement in a circumferential direction with respect to the concave grooves in association with a relative rotational movement of the sample collecting member with respect to the suspension storage container by the tightening operation for the feces to be dispersed in the suspension.