Urine meter
AssigneeThe Kendall Company
InventorGlenn N. Taylor
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Abstract
A urine meter comprising, a receptacle having a chamber, an inlet port for passage of urine into the chamber, and a plurality of generally upright spaced dividers in the chamber defining a plurality of generally upright compartments separated by the dividers intermediate adjacent compartments, with adjacent compartments communicating with each other over an upper portion of the dividers. The urine meter directs urine from the inlet port to one of the compartments such that urine serially overflows from the one compartment into the other compartments. The urine meter has a collection bag having a cavity, and the urine meter communicates between the chamber and an upper portion of the cavity.
Claims18
A urine meter, comprising:
- a rigid receptacle having a chamber, an inlet port for passage of urine into the chamber, a plurality of generally upright spaced dividers in the chamber defining a plurality of generally upright compartments separated by said dividers intermediate adjacent compartments, with adjacent compartments communicating with each other over an upper portion of said dividers, and means for directing the urine from the inlet port to one of said compartments such that urine serially overflows from said one compartment into the other compartments;
- a collection bag having a cavity and a pair of flexible sidewalls;
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- means communicating between said chamber and an upper portion of said cavity to empty the contents of the chamber into the cavity, said compartments being contiguous and in which said one compartment is located at one side of the plural compartments, the directing means comprising a baffle located below said inlet port, the baffle extending into a lateral central portion of the one compartment and is spaced from a lower wall of said one compartment to define an opening, said baffle separating said one compartment into a first compartment communiting with the inlet port and a second compartment communicating with the first compartment through said opening and communicating with an adjacent compartment over one of said dividers.
A urine meter, comprising:
- a rigid receptacle having an inlet port, a front wall, a lower wall, a rear wall, a pair of spaced sidewalls extending from said lower wall, with said lower wall, sidewalls, front wall and rear wall defining a chamber, a plurality of upright spaced dividers extending from said lower wall and defining a plurality of contiguous compartments, with said dividers having approximately an equal height, a baffle extending from a location intermediate the inlet port and a plurality of the compartments into one of said compartments at one side of the contiguous compartments, said baffle being spaced from and covering a plurality of the compartments, a lower portion of said baffle being located intermediate a sidewall and one divider defining said one compartment, and said baffle being spaced from a lower wall portion of said one compartment and defining first and second compartments in the one compartment communicating through an opening intermediate the baffle lower portion and lower wall portion of said one compartment, said lower wall portion of said one compartment being spaced above the lower wall of the remaining compartments, with said one compartment having a volume substantially less than the volume of the remaining compartments;
- valve means communicating with a lower portion of said one compartment;
- a collection bag having a cavity and a pair of flexible sidewalls;
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- means communicating between the chamber and an upper portion of the cavity.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.