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US 12,414,886 · App. 17/866,523 · Granted Sep 16, 2025

Urine bag holding bracket

Inventor: Summers Dawn Seely (Grants Pass, OR)
A61G7/0503
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Patent No.
US 12,414,886
App. No.
17/866,523
Granted
Sep 16, 2025
Kind
B1
Abstract

A portable urine collection bag holding bracket is an easy to use and manufacture, low cost and quickly detachable and fixable bracket that facilitates attachment of a urine collection bag or the like to a patient support system or other support at a desired adjustable position based on the user's requirement. The portable urine collection bag holding bracket comprises an L-shaped bracket, wherein the corner area of the L-shaped bracket comprises magnets that allow quick attachment and detachment of the L-shaped bracket to the bed, seat, wheelchair, stretcher, IV stand, or other patient support system or other support. Further, the L-shaped bracket is provided with a plurality of bracket holes to accommodate various configurations of hooks or hangers of the urine collection bag(s) and facilitate easy and quick attachment and detachment of the urine collection bag(s) with respect to the L-shaped bracket.

Claims (13)

1. A portable urine collection bag holding bracket, wherein the bracket comprises:

a first bracket portion, wherein the first bracket portion comprises an elongated first proximal segment and a first distal segment extending from the first proximal segment, and the first proximal segment comprises a first plurality of aligned, spaced-apart, multi-faceted bracket holes;

a second bracket portion, wherein the second bracket portion comprises an elongated second proximal segment and a second distal segment, wherein the second distal segment is magnetized, and the second proximal segment comprises a second plurality of aligned, spaced-apart, multi-faceted bracket holes, further the first distal segment of the first bracket portion and the second distal segment of the second bracket portion meet orthogonally at an orthogonal meeting line to form the bracket; and

wherein each of the first plurality of aligned, spaced-apart, multi-faceted bracket holes comprises:

a curved or concave first edge;

a pair of straight, parallel, spaced-apart side edges extending from the first edge;

a pair of straight outer stepped edges extending inwardly from the side edges, respectively;

a pair of straight sloped edges angling inwardly from the outer stepped edges, respectively;

a pair of straight inner lower stepped edges extending inwardly from the sloped edges, respectively; and

a curved or concave second edge extending between the inner lower stepped edges.

2. The bracket of claim 1 , wherein the bracket is “L”-shaped.

3. The bracket of claim 1 , wherein the first distal segment is magnetized.

4. The bracket of claim 1 , wherein the second bracket portion is 6-10 inch long.

Continuity (1)
Provisional Application 63323206 · Mar 24, 2022
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