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US 5,827,257 AGranted
Urine-absorbent bag
AssigneeUni-Charm Corporation
InventorsYoshihisa Fujioka, Norihiko Ishikawa
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Abstract
A urine-absorbent bag having front and rear sections for covering of the user's penis and an opening for insertion of the user's penis into the bag, the bag being composed of a liquid-permeable inner sheet, a liquid-impermeable outer sheet and a liquid-absorbent core disposed therebetween, the core being formed with grooves in predetermined directions to thereby deform the bag following a shape of the user's penis and allow an absorbing capacity of the core to be fully utilized.
Claims8
A urine-absorbent bag comprising:
- a laminate including:
- a liquid-permeable inner sheet,
- a liquid-impermeable outer sheet, and
- a liquid-absorbent core disposed between said inner sheet and said outer sheet;
- said laminate defining a front section, a rear section, an opening for insertion of the user's penis into said bag, and a bottom opposed to said opening;
- said front section being provided with a generally V-shaped notch extending form an edge of said opening toward said bottom so as to divide an upper portion of said fron section into two opposite regions respectively forming a flap along opposing edges of said notch, and fastening members respectively disposed on said opposite regions and being fastenable together to overlap the flaps on each other and against the user's penis;
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- a plurality of grooves disposed in said core, said grooves extending in predetermined directions and formed by locally thinning said core.
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