Apparatus for suspending a drainage bag
US4317550A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 17, 1979 |
| Grant date | Mar 2, 1982 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 17, 1999 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61M5/1415
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An apparatus for suspending a drainage bag from a patient's bed or other structure, so fluid can be drained from the patient into the bag. The apparatus includes a hanger to which the bag can be attached and a hook for securing the hanger with the attached bag to the bed rail. The hanger has a bag support spar, L-shaped arms depending therefrom, a clip on the free end of one of the arms, and a connector on the free end of the other arm, so that insertion of one of the arms into a slotted portion of the bag and then insertion of the connector into the clip secures the bag onto the hanger. The hook has an arm attachable to a tab on the hanger and other arms for securing the hook to the bed rail. The arms are constructed so that the hanger and hook can cooperate to suspend the bag in a vertical plane with respect to the ground. In one embodiment of the apparatus, the arm of the hook attachable to the hanger is semicircular. Irrespective of the orientation of the hook on the rail, the bag support spar of the hanger and the suspended bag lie in such a vertical plane because the tab of the hanger is free to rotate about the semicircular arm of the hook.
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