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US 4,391,138 AGranted
Collecting vessel
OwnerAnton Harleinventor
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Abstract
The invention relates to a collecting vessel for medical purposes, i.e. medical fluids, which, in one-piece construction, forms a fluid collecting and measuring system and two pouch parts that can be joined together and with which inflow of the fluid, e.g. urine, can simultaneously be checked from the outside.
Claims5
A flexible collecting vessel having a main pouch part and a measuring pouch part, said measuring part, being tapered and having a narrow end and a wide end, said wide end of said measuring part in fluid communication with said main part;
- a graduated measurment scale positioned along said tapered part, said graduations starting at said narrow end of said measuring part;
- an inflow tube having a free end, said tube passing through said narrow end of said measuring part and extending in a direction toward said main part for a distance and having a generally semicircular, U-shaped bend subtantially at said free end of said tube;
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- suspension means affixed to said main part between said measuring part and said main part, said suspension means for suspending said vessel in a folded-over fashion so that said narrow end of said measuring part hangs downwardly from said affixment of said suspension means.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.