Pouch for ostomy bag
First Claim
1. A pouch having a length and a width, said pouch being adapted and configured to receive an ostomy bag therein, wherein such ostomy bag has a body-facing side, and a front-facing side and wherein such body-facing side has an opening adapted and configured to receive a stoma, said pouch having an upper portion (32) and a lower portion (30), and comprising:
- (a) a body-facing wall (14) having a first upper wall portion defined in the upper portion (32) of said pouch, a first lower wall portion defined in the lower portion (30) of said pouch, and first and second opposing side edges (23A, 23B);
(b) a front-facing wall (12) having a second upper wall portion defined in the upper portion (32) of said pouch, a second lower wall portion defined in the lower portion (30) of said pouch, said front-facing wall being joined to said body-facing wall so as to define a cavity (36) in said pouch between the lower portions of said body-facing wall and said front-facing wall;
(c) an aperture (16) extending through said body-facing wall (14), disposed generally between the upper and lower portions of said body-facing wall and providing ingress into, and egress out of, the cavity (36); and
(d) one or more breaks in at least one of said body-facing wall (14) and said front-facing wall (12), extending from the aperture (16) so as to enable expanding the aperture (16) to define an enlarged opening (41) which provides access to the cavity (36) between the body-facing wall and the front-facing wall, the opening being adapted and configured to receive an ostomy bag therethrough and into the cavity.
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Abstract
Pouches which receive and contain ostomy bags which are in use by ostomy patients. The body-facing wall of the pouch covers substantially the entirety of the facing surface of the ostomy bag, except for portions of the bag which are necessarily exposed to the user'"'"'s body in attaching the ostomy bag to the stoma. The body-contacting surface of the body-facing wall of the pouch is made of material which is skin-friendly, typically cotton, optionally 100 percent soft absorbent cotton; and is optionally sewn with cotton thread. The cotton in the body-contacting layer is typically uncolored, optionally unbleached. An opening in the pouch is used to insert and remove ostomy bags, into and out of the pouch. An aperture in the pouch can be expanded for insertion of the ostomy bag into the pouch, and for removal of the ostomy bag from the pouch.
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34 Claims
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1. A pouch having a length and a width, said pouch being adapted and configured to receive an ostomy bag therein, wherein such ostomy bag has a body-facing side, and a front-facing side and wherein such body-facing side has an opening adapted and configured to receive a stoma, said pouch having an upper portion (32) and a lower portion (30), and comprising:
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(a) a body-facing wall (14) having a first upper wall portion defined in the upper portion (32) of said pouch, a first lower wall portion defined in the lower portion (30) of said pouch, and first and second opposing side edges (23A, 23B);
(b) a front-facing wall (12) having a second upper wall portion defined in the upper portion (32) of said pouch, a second lower wall portion defined in the lower portion (30) of said pouch, said front-facing wall being joined to said body-facing wall so as to define a cavity (36) in said pouch between the lower portions of said body-facing wall and said front-facing wall;
(c) an aperture (16) extending through said body-facing wall (14), disposed generally between the upper and lower portions of said body-facing wall and providing ingress into, and egress out of, the cavity (36); and
(d) one or more breaks in at least one of said body-facing wall (14) and said front-facing wall (12), extending from the aperture (16) so as to enable expanding the aperture (16) to define an enlarged opening (41) which provides access to the cavity (36) between the body-facing wall and the front-facing wall, the opening being adapted and configured to receive an ostomy bag therethrough and into the cavity. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A pouch adapted and configured to receive an ostomy bag therein, wherein such ostomy bag has a body-facing side and a front facing side, said pouch having an upper portion (32) and a lower portion (30), and comprising:
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(a) a body-facing wall (14), having first and second opposing lateral side edges (23A, 23B);
(b) a front-facing wall (12), joined to said body-facing wall so as to define a cavity (36) in said pouch between said body-facing wall and said front-facing wall;
(c) an access opening in said body-facing wall, which is adapted and configured to be temporarily extended, in a generally consistent direction, from the first lateral side edge (23A) in a generally transverse direction across said body-facing wall to an aperture (16), across the aperture, and from the aperture to the second lateral side edge (23B), said access opening providing ingress into, and egress out of, the cavity (36). - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A pouch adapted and configured to receive an ostomy bag therein, wherein such ostomy bag has a body-facing side and a front-facing side, and wherein such body-facing side has a structure adapted to receive a stoma, said pouch having an upper portion (32) and a lower portion (30), and comprising:
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(a) a body-facing wall (14);
(b) a front-facing wall (12);
(c) a cavity (36) in said pouch between said body-facing wall (14) and said front-facing wall (12); and
(d) an access opening (16) in said body-facing wall, providing ingress into, and egress out of, the cavity (36), said body-facing wall comprising a body-contacting layer which is fabricated from a skin-friendly material. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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- 31. A method of preventing deleterious response of a user'"'"'s skin to an ostomy bag, wherein such ostomy bag comprises a plastic receptacle, the method comprising generally enclosing such plastic receptacle in a pouch, the pouch having a body-facing wall, a body-contacting layer of said body-facing wall being made from skin-friendly material, whereby the entirety of the plastic receptacle is spaced from the user'"'"'s skin by the skin-friendly material.
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34. A method of loading an ostomy bag into an ostomy bag pouch, comprising:
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(a) displacing an upper portion of a wall of the pouch from a lower portion of the respective wall of the pouch thus to define a generally laterally-extending opening associated with a top of the lower portion of the pouch, the opening extending generally across the width of the pouch;
(b) inserting the ostomy bag into the pouch through the opening, connecting the ostomy bag to the stoma;
(c) closing the pouch about the ostomy bag so as to limit contact, between the ostomy bag and skin of a wearer, to (i) skin which is immediately proximate the stoma and (ii) skin which is immediately proximate any flange on the ostomy bag and which is proximate such stoma when the ostomy bag is connected to the stoma.
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