Multi-purpose bed pan cushion

Claim 1

A READILY APPLICABLE AND REMOVABLE SANITARY WATERPROOF WASHABLE CUSHION FOR USE IN CONJUNCTION WITH A CONVENTIONAL-TYPE BED PAN HAVING THE USUAL TYPE OVERHANGING TURNED-IN MARGINAL RIM COMPRISING A BODY SUBSTANTIALLY CRESCENT-SHAPED IN PLAN EMBODYING OPPOSED UPPER AND LOWER WALLS HAVING INNER AND OUTER LENGTHWISE LONGITUDINALLY CURVED MARGINAL EDGES THEREOF JOINED TOGETHER AND SEALED, A COMPLEMENTAL CRESCENT-SHAPED CUSHION-POSITIONING AND RETAINING FLAP DESIGNED AND ADAPTED TO ASSUME A COOPERATING BODY RETAINING POSITION AND HAVING A CURVATE LENGTHWISE MARGINAL EDGE OVERLAPPING THE CURVATE COOPERATING MARGINAL EDGE OF SAID BODY AND INTEGRALLY JOINED AND SEALED THERETO, SAID FLAP ALSO HAVING AN OUTWARDLY DISPOSED CURVATE LENGTHWISE EDGE WHICH IS FREE OF ATTACHMENT TO SAID BODY, SAID FLAP BEING HOLLOW AND OF A CROSS-SECTIONAL DIMENSION LESS THAN THE CORRESPONDING CROSS-SECTIONAL DIMENSION OF SAID BODY AND CONFORMINGLY UNDERLYING THE OVERLYING PORTION OF THE BOTTOM OF SAID BODY AND DEFINING AND PROVIDING A LIMITED SPACE FOR RECEPTION AND RETENTION OF THE INTENDED LIP PORTION OF SAID RIM, THE WALLS OF SAID BODY AND ALSO OF SAID FLAP BEING MADE OF CLAVABLE SOAP RESISTANT MATERIAL, AND REINFORCING, SHAPING AND SHAPE-SUSTAINING MEANS CONFINED IN THE HOLLOW PORTION OF SAID FLAP AND IMPARTING THE DESIRED CRESCENT-SHAPE TO SAID FLAP, SAID MEANS COMPRISING A LONGITUDINALLY BOWED PLASTIC TUBE WHICH FUNCTIONS TO DISTEND AND ALSO URGE SAID FLAP TOWARD THE LOWER WALL OF THE BODY IN A MANNER TO ASSIST IN RETAINING SAME AND SAID FLAP IN POSITION ATOP SAID RIM, SAID TUBE BEING OF A LENGTH COMMENSURATE WITH THE LENGTH OF THE FLAP, OF A CURVATURE CORRESPONDING TO THE NORMAL OPERATING AND CUSHION-RETAINING CURVATURE OF SAID FLAP, SAID TUBE BEING LONGITUDINALLY BOWED, OF A CROSS-SECTION LESS THAN THE CROSS-SECTION OF THE FLAP AND THE INHERENT RESILIENCY OF SAID TUBE FUNCTIONING TO NOT ONLY SEAT BUT TO MAINTAIN THE TUBE IN ITS IN TENDED SEATED AND FLAP-SHAPING POSITION.