Multi-pocket bag for medical specimen

• US 5,102,234 A
• Filed: 03/25/1991
• Issued: 04/07/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Abner Levy
• Original Assignee: Abner Levy
• Inventors: Levy, Abner
• Primary Examiner(s): Garbe, Stephen P.
• Assistant Examiner(s): MCDONALD, CHRISTOPHER
• Application Number:
  US07/675,540
• Time in Patent Office: 379 Days
• Field of Search: 383/38, 383/39, 383/40, 383/85, 383/35, 383/38, 383/84, 383/86, 206/610, 229/72
• US Class Current: 383/38
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0096 Casings for storing test samples A61B10/0038 and A61B10/0045 take precedence; preservation of living parts of the human or animal body A01N1/02; containers for retaining a material to be analysed B01L3/50; containers for enzymology or microbiology C12M1/16; swab-sampler being part of enzymology or microbiology container C12M1/30
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/505 flexible containers not provided for above
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 31/12 with two or more compartments
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 33/22 using heat-activatable adhesive
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 75/30 Articles or materials enclosed between two opposed sheets or blanks having their margins united, e.g. by pressure-sensitive adhesive, crimping, heat-sealing, or welding
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 75/5827 Tear-lines provided in a wall portion B65D75/5805, B65D75/5816 take precedence

Abstract

A medical specimen bag is made of three or more overlying sheets of clear pliable plastic material joined along three common edges to make at least two separate pockets open along a fourth edge of the sheets. One of the sheets includes an adhesive flap foldable against the exposed fourth edges of the remaining sheets for sealing all the pockets. The sealed end of the bag is torn off to regain access to all pockets.

Claims

1. A bag for conveying medical specimens from a specimen collecting site to a specimen analysis site comprising:

three or more overlying sheets of clear pliable plastic material joined along three common edges to make at least two separate pockets open along a free edge of said sheets and separated by one or more intermediate ones of said sheets, one of said sheets defining a single foldable flap engageable with the free edge of each of the remaining of said sheets for closing all of said pockets at said free edge.

2. The bag of claim 1 wherein said flap has pressure sensitive adhesive means for effecting said engaging and release sheet means normally covering said adhesive prior to said closing.

3. The bag of claim 1 further comprising perforations defining a tear line in each of said sheets for facilitating joint detachment of a portion of each of said sheets to regain access into all of said pockets upon detachment of said portion.

4. The bag of claim 1 wherein said sheets are of varying length to define non overlapping exposed margins at each said free edge, said margins being simultaneously engageable by said single flap for closing all of said pockets.

5. The bag of claim 1 further comprising indicia near each said free edge for easier location of the opneing to each of said pockets on clear sheet material.

6. A bag for conveying medical specimens from a specimen collecting site to a specimen analysis site comprising:

three or more overlying sheets of clear pliable plastic material joined along three common edges to make at least two separate pockets open along a fourth edge of said sheets and separated by one or more intermediate ones of said sheets, one of said sheets defining a single flap foldable over said fourth edges of the remaining of said sheets for closing said pockets;

said remining of said sheets being of successively greater length to expose non overlapping margins at each said free edge;

pressure sensitive adhesive means for permanently retaining said single flap to all of said margins;

visual indicia along said free edge of at least one of said sheets for visually highlighting the location of said fourth edge thereby to facilitate separation of said sheets at said fourth edge for access into said pockets prior to said closing; and

tear line means for facilitating joint detachment of a portion of each of said sheets to regain access into all of said pockets upon detachment of said portion.

7. The bag of claim 6 further comprsiing release sheet means normally covering said adhesive means prior to said closing.