Disposable collector and container
CA 2020605 C · Owner: Intelligent Products Incorporated · Inventors: Bardes, Dale L.
Overview
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A disposable device for the manual collection and containment of small amounts of material without direct manual contact. The device comprises an elongated bag of flexible, moisture-proof material having an open end and a closed end. The bag is so sized as to comfortably receive the user's hand. The closed end of the bag is two ply with a thin layer of air therebetween for puncture resistance and is gusseted to have a "W"-shape in cross-section. This gusseting provides two interior pockets for the receipt of the user's fingers and thumb respectively, and an intermediate exterior pocket to receive the collected material which is picked up by opposing forces applied thereto by the user's …
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- Filed July 6, 1990 and granted February 17, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended July 6, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by July 6, 2012.
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