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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 14, 1992
Peter L Steer, Nr East Grinstead, GB;
E. R. Squibb & Sons, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
A coupling for joining a pad or dressing to an ostomy bag including a first member 10 of closed loop form for defining a stoma aperture therein, the first member having a formation which defines two opposed walls, 11, 12, and a second member 20 of closed loop form also defining a stoma aperture. The second member has a projection or wall 21 dimensioned and positioned to fit between and resiliently bear against at least one of the walls when the members are connected in such a way as to make sealing engagement with at least the said one wall. The first member is of channel formation seen in cross section and has an upstanding tapering rib 24 extending from the base of the channel and between its walls. The second member has a tapering groove, of substantially complementary shape to the rib, in that surface of the rib projection or wall 21 which faces towards the first member in the mutually coupled condition of the first and second members.