Male urinary collection system and external catheter therefor

A method of securing an external male catheter upon a wearer to protect surfaces of the glans against injury from direct urine contact while at the same time avoiding objectionable adhesive engagement between the catheter and the glans, comprising the steps of providing an external catheter having a tubular sheath formed of soft elastic material and including a thin-walled cylindrical body section, a reduced drainage tube section, a tapered neck section disposed between said body and drainge tube sections, and an inner sleeve of soft elastic disposed within said sheath and having a proximal end portion merging and permanently integrated with said cylindrical section and an elongated distal end portion extending and tapering distally into said neck section;

• said elongated distal end portion of said sleeve terminating distally in a reduced opening spaced axially from the distal end of said neck section and having an outer surface unsecured and normally spaced inwardly from said neck section along substantially the full length and circumferential extent of said distal end portion;
• fitting said catheter upon a wearer's penis with said cylindrical section extending along the shaft of the penis behind the glans thereof and with said inner sleve stretched about the glans and in protective but substantially non-adhesive engagement therewith;
• and maintaining said inner sleeve in protective substantially non-adhesive engagement with said glans by adhesively securing said cylindrical body section to the shaft of the penis behind the corona of the glans.