Pouch construction
View Patent ↗Apparatus for enabling the use of a computer mouse at a sterile surgical site comprises a pouch for the accommodation of the mouse and an inlet sleeve forming an inlet passage into the pouch. The pouch and sleeve are formed of pliable, preferably transparent sterilizable material. When the mouse has been admitted to the pouch via the passage, the sleeve may be separated from the pouch and the open mouth of the latter rolled to form a seal, thereby retaining the mouse within the pouch.
1. A pouch for accommodating an object comprising a bag formed of pliable material forming a receptacle, said receptacle being closed except for a mouth at one side thereof; and a tubular sleeve joined to said receptacle and extending beyond said mouth, said sleeve being reversely turned inwardly at a position beyond said mouth to form a first portion telescoped into said receptacle via said mouth, said first portion being reversely turned at a position within said receptacle and inward of said mouth to form a second portion in telescoped relation with said first portion and extending outward of and beyond said receptacle via said mouth, said first and second portions forming a passage along which an object may travel into said receptacle, said first and second portions of said sleeve being separable from said receptacle at a position beyond said mouth following entry of an object into said receptacle via said passage.
2. The pouch according to claim 1 wherein said pliable material is sterilizable.
3. The pouch according to claim 1 wherein the juncture of said first portion of said sleeve and said receptacle is weakened to facilitate separation of said sleeve from said receptacle.
4. The pouch according to claim 1 including a form-stable, bendable sealing strap secured to said receptacle adjacent said mouth arid externally of said receptacle, said strap being of such length as to extend beyond opposite edges of said receptacle.
5. The pouch according to claim 4 wherein the material of said receptacle is sufficiently pliable to be convolutely wound about said strap and form a sealing roll, and wherein said strap is sufficiently flexible to be bent and clamped about opposite ends of said roll.
6. The pouch according to claim 1 including at least one reinforcing splint secured to said sleeve and said receptacle and extending axially beyond the junction of said sleeve and said receptacle.
7. The pouch according to claim 6 including two of said reinforcing splints parallel to and laterally spaced from one another.
8. The pouch according to claim 1 wherein said sleeve has an end portion external of said receptacle, said end portion being reversely turned to form an external cuff.
9. The pouch according to claim 1 including separable retainer means bridging said receptacle and said second portion of said sleeve for minimizing inadvertent withdrawal of said first portion of said sleeve from said receptacle.
10. The pouch according to claim 1 wherein said sleeve is a unitary extension of said receptacle.
11. A pouch comprising at least one sheet of pliable material forming a receptacle closed except for an open mouth at one end thereof; and closing means for said open mouth, said closing means comprising a flexible, form-stable strap secured to said receptacle at its exterior adjacent said mouth and extending beyond opposite sides of said receptacle, the material from which said sheet is formed being sufficiently pliable to enable the sheet at said open mouth and said strap to be convolutely wound to form a roll, said strap being of such flexibility as to have its opposite ends reversely turned following the forming of said roll and clamp opposite ends of said roll thereby sealing said mouth, said sheet including an inlet sleeve joined at one end thereof to said receptacle at said mouth and extending beyond said receptacle, said sleeve having a first portion thereof adjacent said mouth, said first portion being reversely turned inwardly and telescopingly extended into said receptacle via said mouth, said first portion of said sleeve being reversely turned within said receptacle inward of said mouth to form a sleeve section extending from within said receptacle outwardly thereof through and beyond said mouth, said first portion of said sleeve being weakened adjacent said mouth to facilitate separation of said sleeve from said receptacle.
12. The pouch according to claim 11 wherein said sleeve has an end portion remote from said receptacle reversely turned outwardly of said sleeve to form an external cuff.
13. The pouch according to claim 11 including separable retaining means releasably joining said sleeve section and said receptacle adjacent said mouth.