Urine specimen collection device
OwnerJames T. Hazard, R. Vincent Kidd, IIIinventors
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Abstract
A device for collecting uncontaminated urine specimens from adult females, adult uncircumcised males and pediatric males. The device includes an elongated flexible tubular conduit member having a funnel-shaped opening at one end to be in sealing relationship with a urethra or glans penis and a discharge end to be received within a sample container. The sample container includes an opening with sealing means therein to receive the discharge end of the elongated flexible tubular conduit member in an open position to receive a urine specimen and in a closed position when the discharge end of the elongated flexible tubular conduit member is withdrawn.
Claims9
A device for collecting urine samples comprising:
- an elongated flexible tubular conduit having a funnel-shaped first opening at one end and a second opening at the opposite end, said funnel-shaped opening being sized to fit around the outer periphery of a glans penis and to form a seal thereabout;
- said tubular conduit member includes fastening tabs thereon for attaching said tubular conduit member to a glans penis;
- a sample collector having an opening therein;
- and,
- a closure member disposed within said opening of said sample collector, said closure member having means to receive said opposite end of said tubular conduit therethrough, said means to receive said opposite end of said tubular conduit including sealing means when not in receipt of said opposite end therein.
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