JPH09126959A - Excrement collecting container - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To achieve the securing of constant-quality collecting property, the prevention of an insanitary state, the easiness for turning to a suspension, the prevention of the breakdown of a dropping part and the like by such a constitution that a pickup rod in which an excrement brush is formed, a stocker part, an inner cap body and the like are provided. SOLUTION: A knob part 9 of the excrement collecting container 1 is held, and an outer cap body 3 is removed from a container main body 2. Excrement is uniformly attached to an excrement brush 15. An inner cap body 4 is removed from a dropping part 6, and the brush 15 is penetrated into a through hole 16. Thus, the excessive excrement attaching to the brush 15 and a collecting rod 13 is gathered into the inner cap body 4. When an opening part 19 of the inner cap body 4 is coupled into a sealing part 10, the excrement is tightly sealed into a stocker part 12. Then, the outer cap body 3, wherein the excessive excrement is contained in the stocker 12, is inserted into the inside through an opening part 7 of the main body 2, and the main body 2 is tightly sealed. At this time, since there is no attachment of the excessive excrement to the brush 15, an insanitary state does not occur. Finally the main body 2 tightly sealed with the outer cap body 3 is swung, and the specified amount of the excrement on the brush 15 is dissolved in liquid 20 so as to form suspension. The excrement is sent to a laboratory.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a stool collection container for collecting stool excreted from a human body as a sample, storing it, and transporting it to a laboratory such as a hospital or a health center.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the medical field, in order to examine or confirm a disease of the human body, feces excreted from the human body are collected, a certain amount thereof is stored together with a liquid, suspended, and transported to a laboratory. Inspection laboratories often conduct precise inspections of the suspension.

[0003] As a stool collection container required for this kind of examination, a device described in Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 5-17652 has already been disclosed. This invention comprises a container body capable of containing a liquid for suspending feces, a collection rod having at least one of a notch, a concave portion, or a through hole near the tip, and a means capable of sealing the container body. A cap which can be connected via a filter, and a drip part provided with a filter inside, the cap, a separation wall which partitions the inside of the container into at least two chambers,
And a stocker portion formed by a sampling rod penetrating the separation wall.

[0004] Then, by passing a feces collection rod through a hole provided in the separation wall, surplus feces are scraped off and retained in the stocker, and a certain amount of feces is suspended in a liquid for suspending feces. Supply. At this time, at least one of the notch, the concave portion, or the through-hole provided near the tip of the sampling rod improves the quantitativeness of feces.

[0005]

However, according to the above-mentioned invention, collecting a fixed amount of feces at a notch, a concave portion, or a through hole provided near the tip of the collection rod is, for example, a case where solids are mixed in the feces. When the vicinity of the tip of the collection rod abuts against the solid, the stool cannot adhere to the notch or recess, or cannot enter the through hole, so that quantitativeness cannot be ensured, and Inspection may not be possible.

In other words, in a simple notch, a concave portion or a through-hole, it must be visually confirmed whether feces are attached to each of them, and if this is missing, quantitativeness cannot be ensured. , Proper inspection cannot be performed.

Further, feces adhering to the cutouts or recesses are easily suspended due to high contact with the liquid stored in the container body, but feces entering the through holes have low contact with the liquid. Due to the low temperature, it takes more time to suspend the suspension compared to the above-mentioned cutouts and recesses.

Further, according to the invention, since the stocker section is constituted by one chamber formed by the separation wall on the opening side of the container main body, the collection rod with feces attached to the tip end is formed by the separation wall. When inserted into the hole, feces may adhere to the periphery of the opening of the container body, which may be dirty and unsanitary.

Further, the stool collection container according to the present invention is
It has been pointed out that, when mailing to a patient or the like for collecting feces, the drip portion may be damaged due to various conditions during mailing, and it is necessary to take measures to prevent such damage.

[0010] Therefore, in view of the above circumstances, the present invention can ensure a quantitative collection property, and when the collection rod is inserted into the container main body, the feces do not adhere to the periphery of the opening, and the feces are easily suspended. In addition, the present invention provides a stool collection container in which the drip portion is not damaged.

[0011]

A stool collection container according to the present invention has a drip portion having a filter formed at one end which is cut and opened, and a container which can store a predetermined amount of liquid by opening the other end. A main body, an outer lid body having a collection rod formed with a stool collection brush, and sealing the opening at the other end, and a stocker section including a recess formed around the base of the collection rod in the outer lid body. An inner lid body having a through-hole through which the feces collection brush and the collection rod can penetrate, being mounted on the outer lid body, being insertable into the container body, and being detachably mounted on the drip portion; And characterized by the following.

[0012] The stool collection brush is characterized in that short fibers are electrostatically planted at the tip of the sampling rod, or cotton thread is wound around the tip of the sampling rod at a predetermined interval and fixed. .

With the above construction, the collection rod is pulled out of the container body to attach the feces to the stool brush, the inner lid is removed from the drip portion of the container body, and the stool brush is penetrated through the through hole to remove excess feces. When ironing is performed and the inner lid is moved to one end of the collection rod, the stool that has been ironed is stored in the stocker portion and sealed with the inner lid. Therefore, the sampling rod with the inner lid is inserted into the container body, and the opening is sealed with the outer lid.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, a stool collection container 1 according to the present invention includes a container body 2 capable of storing a predetermined amount of liquid, an outer lid 3 also serving as a lid of the container body 2, and a detachable one end of the container body 2. And an inner lid 4 attached to the outer lid 3 after collecting the feces to collect feces.

The container body 2 is integrally formed with a drip portion 6 which can be cut at one end to form a through-hole 5. A filter 6a such as filter paper or sponge is provided inside the drip portion 6, and an opening 7 at the other end. A step portion 8 to which the inner lid 4 is locked is formed in the vicinity.

The outer lid 3 has a knob 9 having a predetermined length at one end.
Are integrally formed, seal portions 10 and 11 that are tightly fitted to the opening 7 of the container body 2 and the inner lid 4 are integrally formed, and a stocker portion 12 formed of a concave portion is provided on the inner surface side of one of the seal portions 11 with a sampling rod 13. Is formed around. The collection rod 13 has a diameter that closely fits into the through hole 16 formed at the center of the inner lid 4 and a predetermined length that extends into the container body 2, and has a slightly tapered distal end. Is connected to a stool brush 15 mounted on a shaft 14.

The stool collection brush 15 is formed in a circular cross section that can penetrate the through hole 16 of the inner lid 4, and may be made of a resin brush or an animal bristle brush. The feces are attached to the stool brush 15, and the diameter and length of the stool brush 15 and the amount of the resin or bristle brush are determined as appropriate in order to ensure quantitativeness. It should be noted that the stool collection brush 15 is not limited to a circular cross section, but may be in the form of a toothbrush, and may be formed integrally with the collection rod 13.

As shown in FIG. 4, the brush 15 may be replaced with a brush 15a formed by electrostatically implanting short fibers 30 at the tip of the collection rod 13. Stool collection brush 1
As described above, the brush 5 cannot be formed directly on the collection rod 13 because the brush 5 is formed by connecting a brush separately made of animal hair or resin fiber to the shaft 14 as described above. 15a has the advantage that a brush can be formed directly on the tip of the collection rod 13 by the electrostatic flocking method.

Further, as shown in FIG.
May be replaced with the stool brush 15b in which a predetermined length of cotton thread 40 is wound around the leading end of the brush with a gap and fixed with an adhesive or the like.
These stool collection brushes 15b are economical because there is no need to separately create a brush portion with animal hair or resin fibers, and without electrostatic flocking, and between the cotton yarns 40 having intervals. And the cotton thread 40 can also absorb stool. Then, in order to fix the cotton thread 40, in addition to the adhesive, as shown in FIG.
0 and a plurality of concave portions 51 are formed stepwise so as to face each other in the diametrical direction, and the cotton thread 40 is locked in the concave portions 51 and wound around the collection rod 13. The cotton thread 40 may be fixed to the sampling rod 13 by crushing in the direction of the arrow (see the lower half of the figure).

The inner lid 4 is a funnel-shaped body having a through hole 16 having an inner diameter substantially equal to the diameter of the feces collection brush 15, and a step 17 which is engaged with the step 8 of the container body 2. An opening 19 having a diameter that is slightly spaced from the opening 7 of the container body 2, closely fitted to the sealing portion 11 of the outer lid 3, and stopped at the step 18 of the knob 9 is formed. I have. The inner lid 4 is used as a protector to prevent the breakage of the drip portion 6 by covering the drip portion 6 from the outside before the stool collection, that is, until mailing from a hospital or the like in order to collect a sample from the patient. Works.

The container body 2 and the inner lid 4 are formed by blow molding of a resin, but the invention is not limited to this. Outer lid 3
Is by injection molding to connect the stool collection brush 15,
It is not limited to this. Further, the steps 8, 17 may be formed such that the wall of the container body 2 is bent outward at a substantially right angle without being inclined as shown in the figure.

A predetermined amount of liquid 20 such as physiological saline is inserted into the container body 2. Therefore, in the feces collection container 1 according to the present invention, before the feces are collected, the drip portion 6 is covered with the inner lid 4 and the container body 2 accommodates the liquid 20 and the opening 7 is covered with the outer lid. It is provided in a sealed state with the body 3.

To explain the operation of the above embodiment, a patient or the like who collects a sample removes the outer lid body 3 from the container body 2 by grasping the knob 9 of the fecal collection container 1 in the state shown in FIG. Then, the stool collection brush 15 is thrust into the stool to rotate the stool so that the stool is evenly attached to the brush.

When feces adhere to the stool collection brush 15, FIG.
As shown in the figure, the inner lid 4 is removed from the drip portion 6, the feces collection brush 15 is pierced through the through hole 16, and excess feces 21 are drawn out, so that the excess feces 21 attached to the feces collection brush 15 and the collection rod 13 are removed. The feces 21 are collected in the inner lid 4, and when the opening 19 of the inner lid 4 is fitted to the seal portion 10, the feces 21 are sealed in the stocker portion 12.

Then, as shown in FIG. 3, the collection section 3 containing the excess feces 21 in the stocker section 12 is inserted inward from the opening 7 of the container body 2 to seal the container body 2. At this time, the excess feces attached to the feces collection brush 15 is scraped off by the inner lid 4 and no excess feces is attached to the feces collection brush 14, so that the feces is No fouling and unsanitary conditions will occur. In the closed state, the step 17 stops at the step 7 of the container body 2.

Finally, the container body 2 sealed by the outer lid 3 is shaken to dissolve a fixed amount of the feces adhering to the stool collection brush 15 in the liquid 20 and suspend it, and this is directly transported to the laboratory. Is to do.

Although the above embodiment has been described with respect to faeces, the present invention can be used not only for faeces but also for collecting similar objects as specimens and specimens.

[0028]

According to the present invention described above, since the collection rod has a stool collection brush at its tip, feces can be reliably taken into the stool collection brush by rotating the collection rod. Since the excess feces can be removed by squeezing with the inner lid, the quantitativeness is extremely high, and appropriate inspection can be performed without the inconvenience of visually checking and re-collecting each one. Become like

Further, the fixed amount of feces attached to the stool collection brush has a high contact degree with the liquid contained in the container body, and is easily suspended.

Further, since a stocker portion for storing excess feces is formed in the collection rod and this stocker portion is sealed with the inner lid, when inserting the collection rod into the container main body, the excess feces is used. Can adhere to the periphery of the opening of the container body and become dirty and unsanitary.

Further, since the inner lid is covered with the drip portion to protect the drip portion, when mailing the above stool collection container to a patient or the like for stool collection, various conditions during mailing are required. This can prevent the drip portion from being damaged.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a half sectional front view showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram of an action at the time of collecting feces.

FIG. 3 is a front view of a half section after collecting feces.

FIG. 4 is a side view of a collection rod showing a second example of the stool collection brush.

FIG. 5 is a side view of a collection rod showing a third example of a stool collection brush.

FIG. 6 is a side view (A) and a plan view (B) showing a third example of a method of fixing a cotton thread to a stool brush.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Stool collection container 2 ... Container main body 3 ... Outer lid body 4 ... Inner lid body 5, 16 ... Through-hole 6 ... Dropping part 7, 19 ... Opening part 8, 17, 18 ... Step part 9 ... Seal part 12 ... Stocker Part 13: collection rod 14: shaft 15, 15a, 15b, 15c: stool brush 16: through hole 20: liquid

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A container body having a filter having a filter formed at one end which is cut and opened, and a container body which is open at the other end and is capable of storing a predetermined amount of liquid, and a collection rod formed with a stool brush. An outer lid body that has an opening at the other end and seals the outer lid body with a recess formed around the base of the collection rod; and the feces collection brush and the collection rod can penetrate. A stool collection container, comprising: an inner lid body having a through hole, which is attached to the outer lid body, is insertable into the container body, and is detachably attached to the drip portion. 2. The stool collection container according to claim 1, wherein the stool collection brush is formed by electrostatically implanting short fibers at the tip of a collection rod. 3. The stool collection container according to claim 1, wherein the stool collection brush is formed by winding a cotton thread around the tip of the collection rod at a predetermined interval and winding the cotton thread around and fixing it.