Bag and Hand Protector Combination for Sanitary Waste or Specimen Collection
OwnerMichael Lee Currieinventor
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Abstract
A device for sanitary collection of materials features a bag having a closed bottom end, side walls that extend from the closed bottom end to delimit a collection space above the closed bottom end, and a hand protector that is attached to one of said side walls and has a hollow interior that is open or openable at one end to enable insertion of one's hand into the hand protector. A handle is provided in an opposing side wall so that that bag can be suspended in an open state between a wrist or forearm on which the hand protector is worn, and the hand of the user's opposite arm. A stamping operation performed on a continuous plastic web is operable to efficiently create the bag and hand protector as integral parts of a unitary bag construction.
Claims15
A device for sanitary collection of materials, said device comprising a bag having a closed bottom end, and side walls that extend from the closed bottom end to delimit a collection space between said walls above the closed bottom end of the bag, and a hand protector that is attached to one of said side walls and has a hollow interior that is open or openable at one end to enable insertion of one's hand into said hollow interior of the hand protector, wherein said one of the side walls to which the hand protector is attached is a taller side wall that reaches a greater height from the closed bottom of the bag than a lesser height possessed by at least one other of said side walls, and the hand protector is attached to said taller one of the side walls at an elevation thereon that exceeds said lesser height possessed by said at least one other of said side walls.
A device for sanitary collection of materials, said device comprising a bag having a closed bottom end, and side walls that extend from the closed bottom end to delimit a collection space between said side walls above the closed bottom end of the bag, and a hand protector attached to a first one of said side walls and comprising a hollow interior that is open or openable at one end to enable insertion of one's hand into said hollow interior of the hand protector, and a handle in a second one of the side walls that resides opposite said first one of the side walls.
A device for sanitary collection of materials, said device comprising a bag having a closed bottom end, and side walls that extend from the closed bottom end to delimit a collection space between said side walls above the closed bottom end of the bag, and a hand protector attached to a first one of said side walls and comprising a hollow interior that is open or openable at one end to enable insertion of one's hand into said hollow interior of the hand protector, wherein the bag and the hand protector are integral parts of a unitary bag construction having a stamped void area therein, of which one sealed boundary region defines a closed seam of the hand protector, and an unsealed boundary region defines an open upper end of the collection space.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.