Pants that can accommodate a catheter
OwnerNitza Agam, Lalit K. Goelinventors
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Abstract
Pants housing a catheter that drains to a collection bag, said pants having a left and a right panel, wherein each panel is a covering element has a continuous zipper tape that is coextensive with the fabric forming a pant, wherein the panels provide a selectable portlets to the collection bag mounted on a wearer's anterior thigh to activate drainage or to service a connection of the catheter to the collection bag, and a selectable port to inspect, tighten straps and/or replace the collection bag. It is anticipated that the wearer may be in a wheelchair when these actions are performed.
Claims11
Pants that can accommodate a catheter, wherein the catheter drains urine from a wearer's bladder to at least one collection bag, said pants comprising:
- a panel that is a covering component of a pant leg that can provide access to the at least one collection bag on a frontal anterior thigh of the wearer, wherein said panel provides partial and full access to the at least one collection bag as needed;
- wherein said panel has a lateral edge that is coextensive with a lateral seam of a pant, a partial perimeter outer edge that is closed by a shared continuous zipper tape with a pair of stops, where the partial perimeter outer edge of said panel is substantially coextensive with an inner edge of the pant leg;
- said shared continuous zipper tape has a zipper slide assembly with a pair of opposing zipper slides with locking pulls for opening and closing said shared continuous zipper tape, and by extension said panel;
- a first operating element of the opposing zipper slides is that as the opposing zipper slides are pulled apart, the continuous zipper tape unzips, therein providing a portlet at a position along the said shared continuous zipper tape;
- wherein the portlet can be closed by pulling the opposing zipper slides together;
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- a second operating element of the opposing zipper slides is that when the opposing zipper slides are pulled apart until individual slides of the pair of slides abut a upper stop and a lower stop, then the continuous zipper tape is unzipped therein providing a port, and the panel can be folded laterally along the lateral seam of the pant leg;
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- wherein the port can be closed by pulling the opposing zipper slides together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.