FR2514252A1 - ELASTIC TUBULAR OBJECT APPLICATOR ON A CYLINDRICAL BODY ORGAN - Google Patents

Abstract

THE INVENTION RELATES TO AN APPLICATOR OF A URINAL CAP, FINGER OR LEG GUARD FOR BODY HOLDING, ON A GENERALLY CYLINDRICAL BODY ORGAN. IT INCLUDES A SEMI-RIGID PLATE 10 WITH A CIRCULAR OPENING 12 OF WHICH PART OF THE PERIPHERY INCLUDES FLANGES 14 ON WHICH THE FREE EDGE, WALL IN BURRING, OF THE OBJECT TO BE APPLIED IS TENSIONED. AFTER PLACING THE APPLICATOR ON THE BODY, DOUBLE PRESSURE 22, EXERCISED ON THE LIST 24 OF THE EDGES OF THE PLATE, RELEASES THE BUMPER WHICH COMES TO APPLY TO THE BODY ON WHICH IT CAN BE UNWINDED TO TAKE ITS DEFINITIVE POSITION. THE APPLICATOR ALLOWS EASY AND PAIN-FREE PLACEMENT OF VARIOUS CARRIER OR PROTECTIVE OBJECTS ON VARIOUS PARTS OF THE HUMAN BODY.

Description

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  The present invention relates to a device serving to place, on the essentially cylindrical part of an organ, a tubular, thin, elastic and flexible object, the front annular rim of which, in the direction of installation, is wound on itself. even, and especially a device of this kind for use in placing a cap

  or urinal cap (such as the distributed urine collector

  misted under the registered trademark URIDOM, consisting of a col-

  urine reader placed on the penis and lower part

  from which starts a tube connected to a urinal) -.

  Many disabled people, especially those of advanced age,

  may have trouble fitting a uri- cap

  nal Swedish patent 362,584 describes a device

  cilitant the installation of caps or caps of a

  rinal, and other similar objects, comprising first-

  a tubular sheath in which the cap is suspended by its gaping end surrounding one end of the sheath, in hermetic contact with it, so as to be able to create a difference in atmospheric pressure between the interior of the cap and the intermediate space between this cap and the sleeve so that the overpressure thus reigning in the cap temporarily expands it, and secondly an axially movable part, placed at

  the other end of the sheath to close it, being able to

  move away from the end to which the cap hangs to reduce this pressure and dilate said cap so as to put it in place This applicator is excessively bulky and its mass too large compared to the cap, or similar object, to put in place It consists of two parts which must be hermetically adapted to each other which, on the one hand, leaves little tolerance for its manufacture and, es-f 4 Js t on the other hand, complicates the assembly of these two parts and the cap In addition, the cap must be closed while it remains in the sleeve and during installation, without which the overpressure necessary for its expansion cannot occur; it will therefore be necessary for the outlet opening of the cap to be provided with a plug, as provided for in the patent in question, or for this opening to be closed so as to have to be cut after installation.

  The two methods are inconvenient and time consuming.

  gent more work material In

  in addition, this known device is only applicable to ob-

  waterproof jets and not, for example, to elastic perforated finger cots or mesh leggings - for holding bandages or bandages in place

  The object of the present invention is to overcome these drawbacks.

  come and realize a device suitable for the fitting of caps: or caps of urinals, uridoms, or other similar objects at least partially tubular in elastic and relatively thin material, device of simple shape, easy to manufacture, and n ' requiring that a small amount of work material This object is achieved, in accordance with the invention, by means of a device constituted by a plate of material

  rigid, pierced with a convex opening whose circumference

  ference will be greater than the annular rim of the ob-

  tubular jet in the relaxed state, the edge of this opening comprising at least two projecting parts, distant from each other, projecting from the plane of said plate, and

  serving to expand the rolled annular rim of said ob-

  jet, and at least two non-protruding parts, diametral-

  opposite, between said projecting parts

  Due to the elasticity of the constituent material of the

  puchon, its coiled rim, forming a bead, may

  cleverly expand and cling to said sail-

  lantes (or "tabs") to be thus threaded-on the gold-

  gane targeted, then free themselves from these tabs when the plate is bent along a line passing through the edges

  of the opening without tabs so as to bring them together

  close to each other, this folding must be carried out in the direction of the face of the plate from which the tabs protrude As the cap, due to its elasticity, will be smaller than the opening after leaving the tabs, the plate can easily be removed and discarded (or reused) Such a device can be used, not only with urinal caps but also with finger cots with a solid or perforated wall or with elastic sheaths in mesh for # ixation bandages or dressings on the arms, legs or trunk In these

  last cases, the advantage of the device will be to prevent

  no abnormal pressure is exerted, for example, on sensitive wounds during the fitting of the bandage or dressing

  The plate can have the shape you want, for example

  circular or elliptical example, although a rectangular shape

  gular or square is more convenient for its manufacture Similarly, the opening of the plate may have any shape provided that it is sufficiently convex and a little larger than the member on which the tubular object should be placed This opening could, for example,

  be rectangular, hexagonal, or octagonal but the -

  the most convenient form will be the circular or light form-

  elliptical, the plate can be made of a rigid material that can

  break to release the elastic cap but a

  flexible, semi-rigid, elastic or not, will be suitable

  better A specially suitable material is poly-

  hardened ethylene (highly compressed polyethylene) but it

  other plastics such as

  polypropylene, hardened polyvinyl chloride,

  or polyester We can also use sheets

  the metal or cardboard fairly rigid If the tabs now dilated the cap are not

  that there are two of them, each of them must have an

  sez great length, approximately equal to the length separating them In such a case, the edge of the opening will include two elongated tabs, like flanges or flanges, separated by two edge parts

  This embodiment is specially indicated if the

  green is square or hexagonal because in this case the lan-

  lookouts can be made by folding and straightening

  sant two flanges The elongated tabs can also be replaced by four, or more than four, pins placed at the corners of a polygonal opening or distributed around the circumference of a circular or elliptical opening When the tongues have the form of elongated flanges,

  It will be advantageous if, in accordance with the invention, el-

  go by bending | away from the plate so that the concave face of the tongues is opposite this plate The elastic cap will, in this case, be very well maintained by the flanges while being able to

  separate easily when the plate is bent or broken.

  When the plate is folded or broken to release the elastic cap, this bending and breaking must be carried out in the direction of the face of the plate carrying the tongues because, otherwise, the cap would remain attached to the latter

  To avoid bending or breaking the plate directly

  tion of the opposite face thereof, there will be an advantage in that, in accordance with the invention, this plate has two opposite lateral gripping faces (or "strips"),

  protruding from the same side of the plate plane as the lan-

  lookouts, and arranged between them and the outer edges

  laughing at the plate or at these very outer edges, tan-

  say that the sides of the plate facing the edges of the opening devoid of tabs will not have such strips When we press on these strips so as to bring them together, we are certain that the plate will bend or break rightly and the cap will release from the tabs; this is the reason why this embodiment is preferred. If the plate is rectangular, these strips can be produced in a very simple manner by folding down the constituent material of the plate, but there is nothing to prevent these strips, as the tabs are either riveted, glued or welded to the plate, or fixed to it in another way, or else

  come from molding with it The strips can extend

  dre over all or part of the length of the plate, and

  have, for example, only the width of a finger They can

  will be flat and follow the outer periphery of the

  that, by bending if this periphery is rounded, and

  in the latter case they will preferably follow a general

  straight although they may in fact be incur-

  in two directions According to a particularly advantageous embodiment

  of the device according to the invention, the plate, essential-

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  square, has strips made up of folds

  ures of the plate on two of its c 8 opposite sides, and one

  essentially circular or slight central opening

  elliptical whose parts of the periphery in re-

  gard of said strips are provided with tabs

  killed by folds of the plate on the same side of it

  here that said strips, these tabs being curved in the plane of the plate and in the plane perpendicular thereto so that the concave faces of the tabs

  face the plate, the two edges of the plate

  that square and the corresponding parts of the periphery

  of the central opening being free of protruding parts

  tes This plate can be made of a suitable material

  required, such as a thin sheet of strong polyethylene-

  compressed in which we will have cut out

  part the plate and its central opening to the dimensions

  wanted in a first operation, and which we will have

  hot folded edges to form strips and tabs in a second operation The choice and adjustment of cutting tools must take into account the fact

  that the central opening should be circular or slight-

  elliptical after folding the edges and its peri

  The sphere must be free of protruding parts in the intervals separating the folded parts. The invention is described below in detail with reference to

  to some preferred, nonlimiting examples of realization

  tion shown in the accompanying drawings in which Figures 1, 2 and 3 are perspective views of

  three embodiments of the device according to the invention

  tion for the installation of a urinal cap; the proportions are exact but the actual dimensions may vary depending on the intended use; Figure 4 is a cross section along the line IV-IV of Figure 3;

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  Figure 5 is a larger cross section

  somewhat altered scale and proportions of the dis-

  positive of Figures 3 and 4 on which is stretched a ca-

  urinal puchon; and FIG. 6 is a section corresponding in part to that of FIG. 5, showing a different attachment method for another object of use the device represented in FIG. 1 is constituted by

  an essentially square plate-10 pierced with an opening

  essentially square 12 Two opposite edges of

  the opening 12 have protruding parts

  killed by flaps or flanges 14 projecting from the plane of the plate 10 The other two edges 16 of the opening 12 are free of protruding parts from the plane of the plate The flaps or flanges 14 may be glued or welded to the plate 10 and placed , optionally, at a short distance

  respective edges of the opening 12 but, in the former

  shown, they are in one piece with the plate

  that and formed simply by folding up part of the ma-

  constituent part thereof In this example, the flanges are slightly curved, folded towards the plate and have a concavity turned towards it, but

  they can also be flat and do with the

  that a slightly acute angle, for example 752 Still in this same example, the plate 10 and its flanges 14 are made of a sheet of highly compressed polyethylene

  about 1.2 mm thick, but they may also

  be made of another inexpensive and semi-rigid although flexible plastic material, of a sheet of metal or of a relatively rigid cardboard plate The flanges 14 have the function of keeping the free end dilated, wound in bead, of a urinal cap or other thin and elastic tubular object, as will be explained below with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6 The plate 10 may have any preferred shape,

  for example circular or octagonal The opening 12 é-

  also may have a form other than that shown

  tee, for example elliptical, hexagonal (as in the figure

  gure 2), or circular (as in figure 3) It is entirely convex In practice, each of the flanges 14 can be subdivided

  in two flanges separated by a gap free from par-

  protruding parts although this is not normally understood

  mode in cases where the periphery of the plate does not

  te no projecting parts As shown in Figure 2, the flanges 14 may be replaced by pins 18 placed at the corners of the polygon; preferably, these pins 18 will be slightly inclined towards the outside of the opening 18, for example by making with the plane of the plate an angle of 75 to 80

  In all cases, the opening must include two parts

  opposite parts 16 free of projecting parts

  When the urinal cap has been stretched over the

  protruding parts, whether these consist of uninterrupted or interrupted flanges 14, pins 18 or other protrusions, the plate and the cap

  which is attached to it can be threaded onto the organ of the

  user and, after insertion of a sufficient length, the plate will be folded along a line intersecting the edges 16, free of projecting parts, of the opening 12

  as indicated by the line in dots and lines 20 of the fi-

Figures 1, 2 and 3

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  This folding takes place in the double direction indicated by the two arrows 22 in FIG. 3, so that the free edges of the protruding parts (eg the flanges 14) are

  move towards each other so that the cap comes off

  plaque stain; it can then be removed

  and the cap unwound to come and occupy its correct position

  The devices of Figures 1 and 2 have the advantage of being

  very simple and inexpensive to make, but the inconvenience

  deny that the folding intended to release the cap risks being done on the wrong side of the plate because, in this case,

  the cap will remain attached to the protruding parts of the

  The preferred embodiment shown in the figure

  3, remedy this drawback: in this embodiment,

  tion, the plate 10 always has an opening 12 (cir-

  in the example shown) whose periphery pos-

  flanges 14 separated by peripheral parts

  16 free of projecting parts, but its two edges op-

  installed, coinciding with the flanges 14, are provided with lilies - ^ -

  24 protruding plates on the same side of the plate as those

  your flanges To release the cap from the device, the

  two strips 24, serving as gripping or press surfaces

  will be pinched towards each other so that the case

  puchon will separate from the flanges 14 The strips 24 may be replaced by attached gripping surfaces, optionally curved, glued

  or welded to the plate between the outer edges 25 of it

this and the flanges 14

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  The embodiment of Figure 3 is shown in

  cross section in Figure 4, in which the thick-

  However, the constituent material is shown on a deliberately exaggerated scale. Figure 5 shows, with partially altered proportions, how

  a urinal cap 26 is hung, stretched, on the dispo-

  Normally, this stretching takes place during the

  cap attachment Cap 26 is made of rubber

  thin head (the thickness of which is exaggerated in FIG. 5) and ends, in general, with a thicker end piece Before being stretched, its other annular end 30 has been rolled up on itself so as to form a bead

  whose circumference will be smaller than that of the opening

  ture 12 Due to the elasticity of the material

  tive, the bead 30 can be expanded, stretched on the flanges 14 or the pins 18 and remain attached to it as long as the plate 10 remains flat or is bent in a direction opposite to that indicated by the arrows 22 It will therefore be easy to place the plate 10 and the cap which is fixed to it on the member under consideration and, when this positioning has been deemed sufficient, the bead 30 can be released from the flanges 14 by folding the plate 10 as

  explained The stretching of the cap, as shown

  felt in Figure 5, is, in this case, particularly advantageous because, when the cap has been passed through

  the opening 12 as shown in the drawing and that the bour-

  relet 30 is thus placed on the other side of the plate.

  as 10 as the rest of the cap 26, the latter will relax to move away from the plate 10, when the latter is bent, in the same direction as the flanges 14, that is to say in the direction of application of the hood, which

  improve the placement of the urinal cap on the

  gane Such a detent movement towards the position of use may, on the other hand, prove to be inadequate

  in cases where the device according to the invention is used

  tion to the placement of other tubular objects such as leggings or finger cots intended to maintain

  bandages or dressings and even in some cases of ap-

  plication with urinal caps In such cases, the fixing shown in FIG. 6 can be used in

  which a fingerprint 32, the end of which has been rolled up

  tied on itself in a bead 34, is stretched over bri-

  of the 14 so as to be placed in full on the same side 8 of the plate 10 as that of the said flanges protrude When the plate 10 is folded as was said above, the finger finger will move slightly in the opposite direction to

  that of the application In all cases, the tubu-

  the spray will be unrolled once it has been detached from the applicator and the latter has been removed

Claims (2)

  1 applicator device for positioning, on a   essentially cylindrical part of a body organ   rel, of a thin, elastic and flexible tubular object (26, 32), and in particular of a urinal cap, whose free annular rim (30, 34), facing the direction of application, is wound on itself 9 me, characterized in that it is constituted by a plate of semi-rigid material (10), pierced with an opening   convex (12) with a perimeter greater than that of said   annular edge (30, 34) of said tubular object (26, 32)   in the relaxed state, and in that the edge of said opening   ture (12) comprises su at least two projecting parts (14, 18) distant from each other, projecting from the plane of said plate (10) and suitable for expanding said rolled annular rim (30, 34), and at least two portions (16) of its periphery, diametrically opposite, free of projecting parts, between said projecting parts (14, 18)   2 Applicator device according to Claim 1, charac-   characterized in that the edge of the opening (12) has two elongated protrusions (14), forming flanges   or flasks, separated by two portions (16) of its   riparian, free from protruding parts   3 Applicator device according to Claim 2, charac-   terized in that the flanges or flanges (14) are in-   curved so that their concave faces are turned born towards the plate (10)   4 Applicator device according to any one of the Reven-   dications 1, 2 or 3, characterized in that the plate (10) has two gripping surfaces (24) projecting from   the same face of the plate as the flanges (14) and   placed on the outer edges (25) of the plate facing said flanges or between said edges and said flanges, and in that said plate is free of any protruding parts in those of its zones facing screw to the portions (16) of the periphery   from the edge of the opening (12) free of sail-   lantes Applicator device according to any one of Claims 1, 2, 3 or 4, characterized in that the plate (10) is essentially square, in that two of its opposite edges are provided with strips (24) produced by folding the constituent material of the plate, and in that it comprises an opening (12) essentially circular or slightly elliptical whose parts   peripheral devices facing the slats (24) including   port Ent flanges (14) made by folding the material   constitutive era of the plate on the same side of that   -this said strips, said flanges being incur-   in the plane of the plate and in the plane perpen-   dicular thereto so that their concave faces are turned towards the plate, the other two edges of the square plate and the portions of the periphery of the opening facing these two other edges being free of parts protruding   6 Applicator device according to any one of the Reven-   dications 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5, on which is suspended a capu-   urinal cap (26), characterized in that the edge an- 2 514252   the rolled-up eyepiece of the cap is passed through the   verture (12) of the plate (10) and stretched on the curved protruding parts forming flanges (14), the rest of the   protruding cap on the face of the plate other than that   comprising the said projecting parts (14)