PORTABLE BODY WASTE COLLECTING SYSTEM

• US 3,757,355 A
• Filed: 09/09/1971
• Issued: 09/11/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 09/09/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Judd F. Allen, Ralph Y. Allen
• Original Assignee: Judd F. Allen, Ralph Y. Allen
• Inventors: Allen, Ralph Y., Allen, Judd F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Artis, Henry K.
• Application Number:
  US05/179,062
• Time in Patent Office: 733 Days
• Field of Search: 4/112,7,110,90,10,11,6 138/120,121 340/172,244R 200/85
• US Class Current: 5/604
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/02 with toilet conveniences, or specially adapted for use with toilets
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 9/00 Bed-pans, urinals or other sanitary devices for bed-ridden persons; Cleaning devices therefor, e.g. combined with toilet-urinals urinals worn by the patient A61F5/44
• CPC Class Codes: E03D 1/003 Cisterns in combination with wash-basins, urinals, or the like domestic plumbing installations E03C
• CPC Class Codes: E03D 13/00 Urinals without flushing devices A47K11/00 ; Means for connecting the urinal to the flushing pipe and the wastepipe; Splashing shields for urinals
• CPC Class Codes: E03D 13/002 intended for use by women

Abstract

A system intended to be wheeled beneath a hospital bed for collecting and temporarily storing body waste materials excreted by a person confined to the bed. The system includes a cart having cabinet structure thereon which encloses the apparatus supported on the cart. The mattress of the bed is provided with an aperture that receives a drain pipe which communicates with a disposable waste receptacle supported by the cart. A chamber communicated with the drain pipe is positioned on the upper side of the mattress for engaging the obvious areas of the confined person to initially collect the excreted materials and direct them into the drain pipe. The chamber may be fixedly attached to the lower torso of the confined person so that even though his consciousness or body waste emitting system may be impaired, the likelihood of soiling his gown and/or bed linens is obviated. A flapper valve is positioned within the drain pipe to minimize offensive odors and which opens by the weight of the excreted materials, thus allowing passage thereof to the receptacle. A reservoir is mounted on the cart and contains a quantity of temperature-controlled water having an antiseptic therein. A nozzle communicates with the reservoir and may be controllably directed by hospital personnel to cleanse or flush the chamber and the areas of the confined person which may have come in contact with the excreted materials. The system preferably includes an audio alarm device that is activated when the receptacle is full to assure timely replacement thereof.

Claims

1. In combination, a bed having a mattress thereon provided with an aperture centrally thereof, a portable body waste collecting system including portable cart means, receptacle means supported by said cart means for storing body waste materials excreted by a person confined to said bed, drain means extending through said aperture in said mattress and communicating with said receptacle means, chamber means communicated with said drain means and positioned on the upper side of said mattress for contiguously engaging certain areas of the confined person to initially collect said excreted materials and direct them into said drain means, reservoir means supported by said cart means and containing a fluid for cleansing said chamber means and certain areas of the confined person which may have come in contact with said excreted materials, flexible conduit means having one end thereof communicating with said reservoir means for directing said fluid controllably outwardly from the opposite end thereof to enable a workman to flush said chamber means and said unclean areas of the confined person with a copious amount of said fluid, and weblike water impervious body binding means integrally attached to said chamber means for sealably attaching said chamber means to the lower torso of the confined person.

2. The combination of claim 1 in which is included strap means for strapping said confined person to said bed to prevent him from turning onto his side, said strap means being attached to said body binding means and having free ends thereto for removable attachMent to said bed.