Specimen container

• US 5,384,097 A
• Filed: 07/23/1993
• Issued: 01/24/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 07/23/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Emilio A. Brouwer
• Original Assignee: Emilio A. Brouwer
• Inventors: Brouwer, Emilio A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Czaja, Donald E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cano, Milton I.
• Application Number:
  US08/096,349
• Time in Patent Office: 550 Days
• Field of Search: 422/61, 422/102, 422/104, 436/66, 73/864.91, 206/363, 206/364, 206/438, 206/446, 206/569, 206/570, 206/805
• US Class Current: 422/549
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 10/0038 Devices for taking faeces samples; Faecal examination devices anal receptacles A61F5/451
• 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 2200/185 Long distance transport, e.g. mailing
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 2300/042 Caps; Plugs
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/502 with fluid transport, e.g. in multi-compartment structures centrifugal-type cuvettes G01N21/07; analysis by separation into components G01N30/00; automatic analysers G01N35/00
• CPC Class Codes: B01L 3/50825 Closing or opening means, corks, bungs closures for containers B65D; means for removing stoppers B67B7/02
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 206/805 Rubber band

Abstract

A kit for collecting specimens that includes a trocar member 20 which is partially housed, at its ends, by jacket members 30 and 40 and rubber band 50 wrapped around jacket members 30 and 40. The first alternate embodiment includes trocar 30'"'"' which has a porous lateral wall or the lateral wall includes small apertures so that the moisture can escape thereby permitting a user to do an occult blood test. The second alternate embodiment corresponds to trocar 30" that includes larger apertures around its lateral wall. The second alternate embodiment is intended to be used in hystopathological procedures. A mixer member is coaxially mounted within either jacket member 30 or 40. A reagent is preferably stored in the other jacket not having the mixer member.

Claims

1. A kit for collecting specimens, comprising:

A. an elongated, tubular trocar means for collecting a specimen having first and second open ends and including a permeable lateral wall so that only moisture of the specimen collected can pass through;

B. first elongated jacket means for cooperatively receiving said first end;

C. second elongated jacket means for cooperatively receiving said second end and adapted to enclose said elongated trocar means in cooperative combination with said first elongated jacket means;

D. rubber band means for urging said first and second elongated jacket means against each other; and

E. mixer means that is cooperatively received within said elongated trocar means and, upon actuation by user, capable of stirring the specimen collected; and

F. blade means removably mounted on said first end for cutting a section of said specimen having a hollow central opening of substantially the same dimension of said first end.

2. The kit set forth in claim 1 further including:

G. dividing means for separating the specimens cut by said blade means and collected inside said tubular member.