Funnel device to facilitate urination by women in an upright position

Claim 1

A funnel device to facilitate directional urination by a female, comprising: a semi-rigid funnel rim contoured to sealingly engage a perineum of the female; a flexible funnel body having a front end and depending from said funnel rim, said funnel body being sealed to said rim around a periphery of said rim and having a substantially continuous wall sloped inwardly away from said rim and towards said front end of said funnel body, said funnel body front end terminating in an orifice; a bendable elongated disposal tube sealed to the funnel body at said orifice and extending outwardly from said orifice and inclined at a downward angle with regard to the funnel body when the apparatus is secured to said perineum of the female, said tube extending through said orifice into said funnel body and terminating proximate said funnel rim, said tube being cut away along an inside of a portion of a tube which lies inside said funnel body, whereby, when held in place, the rim engages the perineum of the female and urine passed from a urethra of the female is collected in the funnel to flow out the orifice to be conducted away from the body by the tube.