Arrangement for connecting fecal receiving bags together
AssigneeColoplast A/S
InventorsMichael Hansen, Peter Müllejans
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Abstract
An arrangement for connecting fecal receiving bags together provides for a simple coupling arrangement, which provides fluid communication between the bags while preventing odor and fluid to leak from the coupling. Such a coupling arrangement between two receiving devices or bags is discreet and comfortable to wear as the coupling members follow the extent of the receiving devices. The coupling members are furthermore capable of extending parallel to the first and second plane of the receiving devices and thereby reduce the extent to which the coupling members bulge out. A method for connecting fecal receiving bags into a coupling arrangement employs the coupling members.
Claims15
A coupling arrangement for fecal management connecting a first fecal receiving device to a second fecal receiving device in a fluid tight manner while allowing flow in a flow direction from the first fecal receiving device to the second fecal receiving device or vice versa, said coupling arrangement comprising:
- a first opening provided in a first end of a first bag of the first fecal receiving device and a second opening provided in a second end of a second bag of the second fecal receiving device;
- a first plane and a second plane defined by the first end and the second end respectively;
- a first planar coupling member arranged at least partly around the first opening;
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- a second planar coupling member arranged at least partly around the second opening,
- a first proximal surface of the first planar coupling member being placed against a second proximal surface of the second planar coupling member, and the first planar coupling member being attached to the second planar coupling member enabling the first plane and the second plane to be parallel arranged and at least partly aligning the first and second opening, and
- the first plane and the second plane being aligned by folding the first planar coupling member and the second planar coupling member around a folding axis transverse to the flow direction and across the first opening and the second opening.
A method for connecting a first fecal receiving device and a second fecal receiving device into a coupling arrangement in a fluid tight manner while allowing flow in a flow direction from the first fecal receiving device to the second fecal receiving device or vice versa, said coupling arrangement including a first opening provided in a first end of a first bag of the first fecal receiving device and a second opening provided in a second end of a second bag of the second fecal receiving device, a first plane and a second plane defined by the first end and the second end respectively, a first planar coupling member arranged at least partly around the first opening, and a second planar coupling member arranged at least partly around the second opening, a first proximal surface of the first planar coupling member being placed against a second proximal surface of the second planar coupling member, and the first planar coupling member being attached to the second planar coupling member enabling the first plane and the second plane to be parallel arranged and at least partly aligning the first and second opening, the method comprising:
- axially aligning the first opening with the second opening;
- arranging the first receiving device and the second receiving device in a coupling position in which the first planar coupling member is placed against the second planar coupling member;
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- arranging the first receiving device and the second receiving device in a folded coupling position in which the first planar coupling member and the second planar coupling member are folded at a first folding axis, which crosses the first opening and the second opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.