Patent Application
20240277533
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The disclosure relates to sheath and more particularly pertains to a new sheath for containing urinary incontinence after voluntary urination.
The prior art relates to sheaths and includes a variety of sheaths enwrapping a penis to contain urine. Known prior art does not include a sheath enwrapping a penis after voluntary urination to contain urinary incontinence and disposing of the sheath thereafter.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a method for using a disposable penile sheath including the steps of urinating voluntarily through a penis and providing a receptacle thereafter. The penis inserts through an opening into the receptacle wherein the receptacle contains urinary incontinence after voluntary urination. The penis is removed from the opening of the receptacle and the receptacle is disposed of thereafter.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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The receptacle 12 includes an exterior layer 22 and an interior layer 24. The exterior layer 22 comprises a liquid impermeable material such as rubber to facilitate containing urine within the receptacle 12. The interior layer 24 comprises an absorbent material and normally comprises a tissue paper being soft on the skin of the user 20. An elastic band 26 may be coupled to the receptacle 12 and extend around the opening 16. The elastic band 26 has a proximal edge 28 and distal edge 30 relative to a closed end 32 of the receptacle 12. The proximal edge 28 is coupled to a peripheral edge 34 of the exterior layer 22 and the distal edge 30 is coupled to a perimeter edge 36 of interior layer 24. The elastic band 26 typically comprises an elastomeric material being compressible against the penis 18 wherein the elastic band 26 facilitates securing the receptacle 12 to the penis 18.
In use, the user 20 urinates voluntarily through the penis 18 and provides the receptacle 12 thereafter. The penis 18 inserts through the opening 16 into the receptacle 12 wherein the receptacle 12 contains urinary incontinence after voluntary urination. The penis 18 may be removed from the opening 16 of the receptacle 12 and the receptacle 12 may be disposed of thereafter.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
