Specimen collection container and non-removable cover

• US 4,934,547 A
• Filed: 04/11/1988
• Issued: 06/19/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Helena Laboratories Corporation
• Original Assignee: Helena Laboratories Corporation
• Inventors: Golias, Tipton A., Mayes, Ronald A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Garbe, Stephen P.
• Application Number:
  US07/180,157
• Time in Patent Office: 799 Days
• Field of Search: 215/250, 215/330, 215/253, 215/306, 220/214, 4/144.1, 128/760
• US Class Current: 215/306
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/007 for taking urine samples measuring urological functions A61B5/20; genital receptacles A61F5/451; urinals for bed-ridden persons A61G9/006
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 2255/20 with coacting elements, e.g. ratchet and pawl, formed integrally in the container and closure or dispensing device, e.g. spout, for permanently preventing removal of the latter
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 47/36 Closures with frangible parts adapted to be pierced, torn, or removed, to provide discharge openings B65D51/18 takes precedence; caps with piercable membranes B65D41/20, B65D41/50
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 55/022 with ratchet effect between relatively rotating parts B65D41/3404, B65D50/04 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01N 2001/007 Devices specially adapted for forensic samples, e.g. tamper-proofing, sample tracking

Abstract

A specimen collection apparatus particularly useful for urine samples is disclosed the apparatus includes a container or beaker and a screw on self-locking top that cannot be removed without damage either to the top or the beaker.

Claims

1. A container comprising:

a beaker having a body portion which includes an upper periphery;

a cover having a top portion, said cover including a downwardly extending skirt;

first interengaging means unitarily formed in said cover and second interengaging means unitarily formed in said beaker, said first and second interengaging means for connecting said cover to said beaker such that said cover becomes non-removable when connected with said beaker; and

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third interengaging means unitarily formed on said cover and fourth interengaging means unitarily formed on said beaker, said third and fourth interengaging means connectable when said cover is connected to said beaker by said first and second interengaging means, said third interengaging means including an outwardly extending tab positioned at the base of downwardly extending skirt and having defined therethrough a hole, said third interengaging means further including a deformable rivet tethered thereto by a flexible member, said fourth interengaging means including an outwardly extending tab adjacent the upper periphery of the beaker, said fourth interengaging means defining a hole in said fourth interengaging means tab.

Whereby said third and fourth interengaging means are connectible by said deformable rivet such that said third and fourth interengaging means are disengageable only by the destruction of said deformable rivet.

2. The container of claim 1 wherein said third interengaging means tab and said fourth interengaging means tab are positioned adjacent to one another when said cover is interconnected with said beaker.

3. The container of claim 1 wherein said rivet includes an expanded free end which is deformable when said rivet is urged through said holes with said third interengaging means tab and said fourth interengaging means tab adjacent to one another.