Apparatus for temperature probe cover with provision for sanitary disposal

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A probe cover incorporating an inner sheath with a probe end engagement section. The sheath is formed of flexible sheet material and has a closed end and an openable end. The sheath has an elongated tubular sheath portion having an inside diameter that is substantially greater than the outside diameter of the main body portion of the probe. The sheath also has a reduced yieldable inside diameter probe end engagement section adjacent the closed end having portions of the sheet material yieldably bonded together for yieldably expanding to the diameter of the probe end for producing a cooperating engagement between the probe and the engagement section.