Ostomy pouch
CA 2115086 C · Owner: Convatec Technologies Inc. · Inventors: Keyes, Denis E.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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The ostomy pouch has a coupling or securement member formed as a washer-shaped wafer of adhesive material preferably a hydrocolloid. The pouch is secured directly onto the abdominal wall with the adhesive wafer aligned with the stoma. Flushability of the pouch is enhanced by forming the pouch with converging side walls within an optimum angular range and a predetermined pouch width and pouch height. The pouch also has a predetermined wall thickness and the wafer is of predetermined thickness. Thus when the pouch is deposited in a water-saver toilet bottom end first, in a carrier sleeve, the pouch can flow in streamlined fashion through the passages of a toilet and any sewer pipe or septic …
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- Filed February 7, 1994 and granted March 2, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 7, 2014.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 7, 2016.
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