Ostomy stoma waste overflow process and bag

• US 20150119836A1
• Filed: 10/29/2013
• Published: 04/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Anita Marie Zindroski, Dale Martin Frimel
• Original Assignee: Anita Marie Zindroski, Dale Martin Frimel
• Inventors: Frimel, Dale Martin, Zindroski, Anita Marie
• Application Number:
  US14/065,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20150119836A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/335
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/4405 Valves or valve arrangements specially adapted therefor A61F5/441 takes precedence; Fluid inlets or outlets A61F5/4407 takes precedence

Abstract

An ostomy stoma waste overflow control method and ostomy bag which allows human waste to flow from one ostomy bag to another ostomy bag via a one directional flow valve, which has the ability to automatically open when the stoma waste pressure within the first, or primary, bag reaches a pressure near, but under, the pressure that would cause the primary bag to leak stoma body waste onto the person wearing it. Present ostomy bags can leak onto the person wearing it if the bag'"'"'s stoma waste pressure increases by over filling, or by being physically bumped or squeezed (such as when a person is sleeping on it). This new invention prevents an ostomy bag from breaking the ostomy seal (which seals the ostomy body flange to the person'"'"'s skin) and leaking human waste material onto the person wearing it. Leaking can cause great embarrassment and pain since human waste will burn the skin where the ostomy flange is attached to the user. Leaking can also greatly stain the bed, sheets and blankets where a person is sleeping.

Claims

1. An improvement over a present art ostomy stoma waste collection bag, by which the collection ostomy bag will now have the improvement of an additional, or third, opening in this ostomy bag, which said opening has the inlet side of a one way flow check valve sealed within this third opening such that the overfilling of stoma body waste within this bag, or the squeezing of this bag would open the one way valve at some fixed pressure so the stoma waste material would be allowed to flow out of this bag through this valve and release the excess pressure and stoma waste into a second bag, sealed and secures to the outlet side of the check valve. The fixed pressure of this valve would be set at a pressure lower than the pressure that would break the seal that attaches the ostomy body flange to the person wearing the device.

2. The process by which the ostomy bag described in claim 1 can release human stoma waste, and route the excess waste material to a second ostomy bag via a one way flow check valve, when the primary bag becomes too full to collect any more waste material, or becomes bumped so as to cause the pressure in the first ostomy bag to rise to a point just below the pressure that would cause the waste material to break through the seal of an ostomy body flange, attached to a person who has had an ileostomy.