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US 6,207,113 B1Granted
Device for sampling feces
AssigneeWako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd.
InventorEtsuro Kagaya
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AssigneeWako Pure Chemical Industries, Ltd.
InventorEtsuro Kagaya
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A device for sampling feces, by which an approximately constant amount of feces can be sampled in simple manner and it is possible to easily identify whether occult blood is present in the feces or not. The device comprises a main container for a liquid for suspending feces in it, a cap arranged at one end of said main container, a separating device for dividing inner spaces of the main container and the cap, a through-hole formed in the separating device, and a collecting stick having a device for collecting feces engaged and inserted in the through-hole, wherein the device for collecting feces is composed of a plurality of hairs and arranged at or near the forward end of the collecting stick, whereby feces collected by the device for collecting feces being composed of the plurality of hairs are passed into the through-hole of the separating device in order to sample an approximately constant amount of the feces.
A device for sampling feces, comprising a main container for a liquid for suspending feces in it, a cap arranged on one end of said main container, a separating means for dividing inner spaces of the main container and the cap, a through-hole having a diameter and formed in the separating means, and a collecting stick having a longitudinal axis and having a means for collecting feces engaged and inserted in the through hole, the means for collecting feces composed of a plurality of hairs which are arranged at or near the forward end of the collecting stick and project outwardly such that free ends of the plurality of hairs, as a whole, form an external shape having a dimension, when measured perpendicular to the axis of the stick, which is greater than the diameter of the through-hole, and connecting the free ends of said plurality of hair forms an approximately constant circular or elliptical shape when the collecting stick in view in cross-section relative to the longitudinal axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.