DESCRIPTION

The present specification relates to a health care related urinal of a pulp material and a method of manufacturing a health care urinal in a pulp material.

A health care urinal or urinal bottle means a portable urinal intended to be used in the health, nursing care sector such as hospitals, nursing homes or at home, or by individuals with special needs outside facility care. The health care urinal may be used by disabled, immobile patients restricted to a bed, wheelchair or similar, or it may be used for taken urine samples from a patient. Urinals are also used for secondary purposes e.g. nursing staff emptying urine catheter drainage bags, and other types of bodily fluid which needs collected, stored or transported.

To control the spread of infection health care urinals are made to be disposable for single use and single-patient use. Disposable health care urinals are typically made from a moulded pulp material (pulp urinals). A pulp urinal is suitable for being disposed in a macerator - due to the softness of the pulp material, the macerator is able to shred or grind the pulp urinal into smaller pieces before entering a sewage system. Used urinals, like e.g. incontinence wear (diapers), can also be placed in other waste handlings systems e.g. common place waste bags. Urine may be collected in the pulp urinal during a time span of up to four hours, but in some cases longer periods such as 12 to 24 hours, before the walls (especially the bottom wall) of the pulp urinal begins to dissolve due to the liquid contained in the pulp urinal, subject to factors relating to urinal design, urine type content, temperature of fluids etc.

An example of a pulp urinal is disclosed in DE20107037, which is incorporated in the present specification by reference. The pulp urinal is a male urinal and comprises a container body with a neck. A lid can be placed on the neck. In order to further reduce the risk of an infection spreading, it is contemplated to place a fluid absorbent powder or dissolvable sachet or dissolvable pad within a pulp urinal, in order to absorb urine coming into the urinal and turn it into a gel like solid non-fluid substance. This also makes it easier for the nursing staff to handle the urinal compared to a situation where it is filled, or partially filled, with urine in usual liquid form. In addition the lifetime of the pulp urinal may be increased, because the dissolution process is re- duced when the urine is stored as a gel like substance.

It is contemplated that the fluid absorbent powder or otherwise material is contained within a dissolvable sachet or otherwise material, wherein the walls of the sachet dissolve when coming into contact with urine.

When a fluid absorbent powder (or sachet) is provided within the container, the container needs to be closed with a lid such that the powder does not come out of the container. However, it is a technical problem to form the container and lid such that the lid stays on the container - especially in view of the fact that both the container and the lid are made of pulp, and are soft and break easily.

The above object and advantages together with numerous other objects and ad-vantages, which will be evident from the description, are according to a first aspect obtained by:

A health care urinal for collecting and disposing of urine, comprising: a container made of a moulded pulp material,

said container comprising a body and a neck,

said body having a container bottom with a concave or planar outer surface defining a first plane for placing said health care urinal in a stable position on a horizontal surface,

said body being hollow and defining a compartment for storing said urine, said compartment including a fluid absorbent powder enclosed in a water dissolvable sachet, said body extending continuously into said neck, said neck having an inner surface, and said neck defining a narrowing of said container with respect to said body, said neck ending in a lip defining an opening into said container, said opening having a maximum diameter of 6 ± 3 cm, said health care urinal further comprising a lid made of a moulded pulp material for inserting into said opening and closing said container, said lid comprising

a lid bottom,

a tapered sidewall extending from said lid bottom for extending into said opening and contacting said inner surface,

a collar extending from said sidewall opposite to said bottom,

a single tongue extending from said collar,

said single tongue extending beyond said lip when said lid being located in said opening, said tapered sidewall having a higher degree of flexibility than said lip for providing a press fit between said lid and said container when said lid being located in said opening for withstanding said sachet forcing said lid out of said opening if said container being turned upside down. In the present context concave is to be understood as meaning curving upwards when seen from below, i.e. when looking at the bottom of the urinal from a point below the urinal.

The lid may be packaged individually or packaged together with a plurality of other lids stacked on top of each other. Also, the tongue allows for an easier separation of individual lids, when the lids are provided as a stack of lids, i.e. it is easier to grip the top lid, and take it from the stack of lids.

In an embodiment the fluid absorbent powder is a slush powder or super absorbent polymers, which are polymers that can absorb and retain large amounts of a liquid relative to their own mass.

The fluid absorbent powder reacts with the urine when the powder and the urine meet in the compartment. The reaction results in a gel or a substance with a higher viscosity than the viscosity of the urine. In an embodiment the fluid absorbent powder absorb aqueous solutions such as urine through hydrogen bonding with water molecules.

The health care urinal may be a male urinal. The lip may have a first oval shape, and the first oval shape may have the major axis in a vertical direction when the lid being located in the opening.

Correspondingly, the sidewall may have a cross section with a second oval shape, and the second oval shape may complement the first oval shape.

The lip may bulge outwards from the neck, and may be formed by folding or forming the end of the neck thereby decreasing the degree of flexibility of the lip - and thereby increasing the general structural rigidity of the area surrounding the opening.

The sidewall is made with less material than the neck, and is therefore not as structurally rigid as the lip being structurally supported by the neck. Furthermore, the sidewall as well as the lid bottom or collar can be made thinner than the wall thickness of the neck or the thickness of the lip. The sidewall may be made with a thickness of 2 mm ± 1 mm, or 3 mm ± 1 mm. The lid bottom and collar may be made with the same thickness, i.e. 2 mm ± 1 mm, or 3 mm ± 1 mm.

Furthermore, the neck may be made with a thickness of 2 mm ± 1 mm, or 3 mm ± 1 mm. Even if the sidewall and neck are made with the same thickness the smaller over- all dimension of the lid gives the lid a smaller modulus material parameter than the area of the container surrounding the opening (the modulus material parameter measures the amount of force per unit area needed to achieve a given amount of deformation) The lid can thereby be made to be deformed and placed in the opening. As the lid have been positioned in the opening the flexibility/elasticity of the lid presses the side- wall against the inner surface of the neck. Since the lip and neck is more dense than the lid, the lip and neck does not give in due to the force formed by the elasticity of the lid (spring constant of the deformed lid).

The lid bottom may have an outer surface defining a second plane, and the collar may define a third plane in which the tongue extend. The tongue comprises a distal end, which may be within a projection of the body onto the third plane. Furthermore, the tongue may be facing downwards towards the first plane. This increases the structural rigidity of the lid and gives the lid a higher elastic limit thereby reducing the risk of breaking the lid when deforming it as the tapered sidewall is being forced into the opening (the elastic limit is the maximum stress that can arise in a material before the onset of permanent deformation). The sidewall may contact the inner surface of the neck when the lid is being located in the opening. The contact between the sidewall and the inner surface of the neck may have a static friction coefficient between 0.6 and 1.2.

The lip may have a first oval or elliptic shape, which may have the major axis in a verti- cal direction when the lid being located in the opening.

The sidewall may have a cross section (in a plane parallel to the second plane) with a second oval shape. The second oval shape may complement the first oval shape. The inclination of the neck relative to the first plane may be greater than 15° and less than 55° such that greater than 25° and less than 45°.

According to a second aspect of the present invention the above objects and ad-vantages are obtained by:

A method of manufacturing a health care urinal for collecting and disposing of urine, said method comprising: providing a first mould, and a first fibrous slurry, moulding said first fibrous slurry into a container by means of said first mould, said container comprising a body and neck,

said body having a container bottom with a concave or planar outer surface defining a first plane for placing said health care urinal in a stable position on a horizontal surface,

said body being hollow and defining a compartment for storing urine,

said body extending continuously into said neck, said neck having an incline with respect to said first plane, an inner surface and a lip having defining an opening into said container, said opening having a maximum diameter of 6 ± 3 cm, providing a water dissolvable sachet with a fluid absorbent powder in said compartment, providing a second mould, and a second fibrous slurry, moulding said second fibrous slurry by means of said second mould into a lid for inserting into said opening and closing said container, said lid comprising

a lid bottom,

a tapered sidewall extending from said lid bottom for extending into said opening, a collar extending from said sidewall opposite said lid bottom,

a single tongue extending from said collar,

said single tongue extending beyond said lip when said lid being located in said open- ing,

said tapered sidewall having a higher degree of flexibility than said lip, pressing said lid into said opening and providing a press fit between said lid and said container for withstanding said sachet forcing said lid out of said opening if said con- tainer being turned upside down.

The lid may be manufactured by moulding a rectangular sheet with for example 6x4 lids. Each of these 24 lids are then cut out and placed on respective containers. Alternatively, the lids may be stacked on top of each other and shipped as a stack of lids. The lids are cut out of the sheet with a single tongue each. When the lids are cut out instead of being torn out, the dust from the moulded pulp material is reduced, and the risk of breaking a lid is smaller. In addition, waste for return pulp is cut off.

The lid may also be manufactured using a mould having the shape of a lid such that one lid is moulded at a time, and the cut out process is skipped.

The above aspects will now be explained in more detail below by means of examples of embodiments with reference to the drawings, in which Fig. 1 shows a perspective of a container for a health care urinal. Fig. 2 shows a perspective of a lid for the container shown in fig. 1.

Fig. 3 shows a cross section of a health care urinal. Fig. 4a shows the cross section A-A' of fig. 2.

Fig. 4b shows a cross section in a plane of a collar of the lid shown in fig. 2.

The aspects may be embodied in different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout. Like elements will, thus, not be described in detail with respect to the description of each figure.

Fig. 1 shows a perspective of a container 10 for a health care urinal.

The container constitutes a bottle and is made of a moulded pulp material otherwise known as moulded fibre. One process of moulding a pulp slurry (fibrous slurry) into a specific product such as the container shown in fig. 1 is transfer moulding.

A transfer moulded product is usually thin walled meaning that the walls defining the product may come in widths within the range of 0.2 cm to 0.8 cm such as 0.2-0.6 cm or 0.2-0.4 cm.

The process uses vacuum forming and take-off or transfer molds, where the mold is an extremely fine wire mesh in the shape of the upper/exposed surface. The fibrous slurries are frequently made up of a high percentage or entirely of recycled newspaper, which produces a relatively smooth surface on one side and a fairly smooth sur- face on the opposite side with good accuracy and definition.

Prior to the molding process, the mesh is mated with a vacuum chamber that draws water through the mesh into the chamber, with the mesh mold suspended above a liquid return pool. The fibrous slurry is sprayed from below onto the mold, and the vacuum draws the slurry tightly against the mesh, filling all gaps and spaces.

When airflow through the mesh has been sufficiently blocked, the excess slurry falls into the return pool for recycling, and the mold advances onward to the drying process, following by separation of the mesh mold from the dried fiber plating.

The container may be moulded as two half-shells (an upper shell 24 and a lower shell 26) being put together and being in contact along an adjoining line 28.

The health care urinal is a male urinal, which is evident from the shape of the container, i.e. the container has a body 18 and a neck 14.

The body is shaped as a rectangular box with rounded corners and edges, i.e. the cor- ners and edges are smooth (differentiable).

The body is hollow and defines a compartment inside.

The body has a container bottom, with a bottom outer surface 12. The bottom outer surface is concave (curving upwards when seen from below) and has an impression of a cone. Thus, the container has a bottom rim defining a first plane for placing the urinal in a stable position on a horizontal surface. Alternatively, the bottom outer surface of the container is planar (flat) defining the first plane for placing the urinal in a stable position on a horizontal surface.

The bottom part of the body extends continuously into a top part of the body, which is shaped like a dome.

The body is 15 cm (or approximately 15 cm) long and 10 cm (or approximately 10 cm) wide. Approximately meaning within tolerances of manufacture, which are up to ±2 cm but may be down to ±0.5 cm depending on the carefulness exhibited during moulding and drying).

The length of the body may be selected from a range of 10-20 cm, such as 12-18 cm or 14-16 cm. The width of the body may be selected from an range of 7-13 cm, such as between 8- 12 cm or 9-1 1 cm.

One of the faces of the body extends continuously into the neck. The neck has an in- dine with respect to the first plane such that the top part of neck rises above the body of the container. The inclination of the neck is described more closely in relation to the description of fig. 3.

The neck ends in a mouth defined by a lip 16. The lip defines the opening into the con- tainer. The lip bulges outwards from the neck, and may be formed by folding the end of the neck thereby decreasing the degree of flexibility of the lip - thereby increasing the general structural rigidity of the area surrounding the opening.

The neck is more narrow than the body, and may have a decreasing diameter from the body towards the mouth, i.e. the neck is tapered or conically shaped. The neck has a length of 10 cm or (or approximately 10 cm meaning within 10 cm ± 2 cm or 10 cm ± 1 cm).

The lip has an inner circumference with a first oval shape (varying diameter around the inner circumference). The maximum diameter (along the major axis) of the inner circumference is along a vertical axis and is 5 cm or approximately 5 cm, i.e. the mouth is upright when the container is placed with the bottom surface resting on a horizontal plane. The maximum diameter may take on other values taken from the range of 4-7 cm, or 5-7 cm, or 6-7 cm, or 4-6 cm, or 4-5 cm, or 5-6 cm.

The minimum diameter (along the minor axis) of the inner circumference is along a horizontal axis and is per definition less than the maximum diameter - it is 10 % smaller (or approximately 10 % smaller). The minimum diameter may be between 5- 15% smaller than the maximum diameter, alternatively between 8-12 % or 9-1 1 % smaller.

Inside the container in the compartment is a water dissolvable sachet 20 with a fluid absorbent powder 22 (shown in the cross section of the urinal in fig. 3). Fig. 2 shows a perspective of a lid 30 for the container shown in fig. 1. The lid is made of moulded pulp material like the container, and is shaped like a hat.

The lid has a lid bottom 46, and a sidewall 36 extending from the lid bottom. The bottom outer surface of the lid bottom is concave and having an impression of a cone. The bottom outer surface of the lid bottom may alternative be flat.

In any case the bottom outer surface of the lid bottom defines a second plane, i.e. when placed on a planar surface, the outer surface of the lid bottom has at least three points which contacts the planar surface thereby defining a second plane.

The lid bottom and part of the sidewall closest to the lid bottom is to be accommodated in the opening of the container. The extent of the sidewall down into the neck will depend on how much the lid is pressed into the opening and the dimensions of the side- wall and the opening after the moulding, i.e. the dimensions of products made of moulded pulp material vary from casting to casting more than is the case with expanded polystyrene for example.

The sidewall has a height of 1.5 ± 0.5 cm measured from the lid bottom. The height may be selected from the range of 0.5-2 cm, or 0.75-1.75 cm, or 1-1.5 cm, or 1.25-1.5 cm, or 1.25-1.75 cm.

A collar 34 extends from the sidewall opposite the lid bottom in a third plane, which is substantially parallel with the second plane. Substantially parallel means within an angular relation of less than ± 10°.

The collar may abut the lip when the lid is accommodated in the opening of the container, and provides structural stability for the lid, which is described more closely in connection with the description of fig. 3. The sidewall is tapered such that the circumference of the sidewall at the lid bottom is less than the circumference of the sidewall at the collar. The tapering of the sidewall is described more closely in connection with the description of fig. 4a.

Furthermore, the circumference of the sidewall at the lid bottom is smaller than the cir- cumference of the opening of the container, and the circumference of the sidewall at the collar is greater than the circumference of the opening of the container. The tapered sidewall allows for a contact to be established between an outer surface of the sidewall and an inner surface of the neck when the lid is accommodated in the opening of the container despite of the dimensions of the neck, opening and the lid be- ing different as a result of the moulding process, which is not 100 % accurate as described in connection with the description of fig. 1.

The tapered sidewall also allows for part of the sidewall being oversized with respect to the opening.

The sidewall as well as the lid in itself have a higher degree of flexibility than the lip for providing a press fit between the lid and the container when the lid is accommodated in the opening such that the lid does not fall off if the urinal is turned upside down and the sachet hits the lid, i.e. the lid can be deformed and placed in the opening. As the lid is positioned in the opening the flexibility/elasticity of the lid presses the sidewall against the inner surface of the neck.

The sidewall is made with less material than the neck, and is therefore not as structurally rigid as the lip being structurally supported by the neck. Furthermore, the sidewall as well as the lid bottom or collar can be made thinner than the wall thickness of the neck or the thickness of the lip.

The outer surface of the sidewall and the inner surface of the neck have a granulated surface and provides a static friction coefficient μ _δ when there is contact between the two. The static friction coefficient being between 0.6 and 1.2 corresponding to an angle of friction between 30° and 50° - depending on the roughness of the surfaces. The friction provides further retention of the lid on the container.

The sidewall has a second oval shaped cross section in a plane parallel to the second plane.

A tongue 32 extends from the collar in the third plane. The tongue has a proximal end 42 at the collar and a distal end 44 opposite the proximate end. The tongue extends in a direction parallel to a major axis of the oval shaped sidewall. The tongue extends beyond the lip when the lid is accommodated in the opening of the container. The tongue has a length of approximately 1.5 cm, but may be up to 1 cm shorter or longer. The tongue has a first side 38 and a second side 40, and occupies a second angle between the first side and the second side. The second angle is 25°±10°.

The lid has a single tongue, i.e. the collar has no other protrusions than the tongue, i.e. single is to be understood as meaning exclusively in the sense that other protru- sions/tongues are excluded. Thus, the part of the lid in the conjugate angle (the angle outside the second angle occupied by the tongue) has an outer circumference with a maximum radius, which is less than the radius to the distal end of the tongue.

When packaging the urinal for transporting the urinal to a customer, the sachet is placed in the container, and the lid closes the container. A plurality of urinals are packed together with the necks of neighbouring urinals facing in opposite directions.

Fig. 3 is a cross section of the container described in connection with fig. 1. The lid described in connection with fig. 2 has been placed on the container thereby closing the urinal.

The neck has a varying inclination with respect to the first plane, i.e. a lower side of the neck has a greater inclination than an upper side of the neck. Thus, the upper side of the neck and the lower side of the neck extends non-parallel to each other.

The lower side extends at an angle of 40° to the first plane (or approximately 40° meaning within 40°±10° or 40°±5°).

The upper side extends at an angle of 30° to the first plane (approximately 30° mean- ing within 30°±10° or 30°±5°).

Upper is to be understood as being higher in physical position when the container is placed with the bottom surface resting on a horizontal plane. A center axis in the longitudinal extension of the neck has an inclination, which is an average between the inclination of the lower side and the upper side of the neck. This average inclination may be selected from an range of 5°-55° such that 25°-45° or 30° - 40°.

The upper side of the neck belongs to the upper half-shell and the lower side of the neck belongs to the lower half-shell in the case that the container is formed by means of two half shells.

The compartment has a volume of 1.5 I (or approximately 1.5 1 meaning 1.5 I ± 0.5 I). The compartment may hold approximately 1 I urine before the urine will spill over the lower side of the lip when the container is placed with the container bottom on a horizontal plane. The container may be able to hold more or less urine depending on the inclination of the lower part of the neck and the length of the neck.

Both the sidewall and the lip are ovally or elliptically shaped, and the major axis of the lip is vertical when the container is placed with the bottom resting on a horizontal surface. The shapes are complementary meaning that the lid can either be placed in the opening with the tongue facing upwards or the tongue facing downwards (towards the first plane). The urinal comprises a container and a lid, wherein the tongue of the lid faces the first plane, i.e. the distal end of the tongue is closer to the first plane than the proximal end of the lid.

The part of the sidewall of the lid, which is opposite the tongue, is denoted the upper sidewall part, and the part of the sidewall of the lid, which is closest to the tongue, is denoted the lower sidewall part.

The upper sidewall part extends into the neck with an angle of less than 25° (such as less than 20, 15°, or 10°) with respect to the upper side of the neck, i.e. the upper side- wall part extends substantially parallel with the upper side of the neck (as seen in a vertical cross section, which is parallel with the center axis of the neck).

The lower sidewall part extends into the neck at an angle greater than 25°, and the urinal has an acute interface 48 between the lower sidewall part the lower side of the neck. The structural stability of the acute interface is increased by providing the tongue closer to the lower side of the neck than the upper side of the neck, i.e. by inserting the lid in the opening with the tongue facing the first plane and thereby being approximate the lower side of the neck.

The lid is held in place by a combination of friction and pressure/tension. The friction is mainly provided between the upper sidewall part of the lid and the upper side of the neck, i.e. these two parts extend substantially parallel to each other, and share a greater contact area than what is the case with the lower sidewall part of the lid and the lower side of the neck.

The pressure is provided by a manually force, i.e. by manually pressing the conical shaped sidewall of the neck into the opening of the container causing the container/lip to expand away from an equilibrium state. The elasticity of the container surrounding the opening causes a force/tension, which grips around the lid. Similarly, the wall/lid is also caused to change shape as it is being pressed into the opening, which results in the elasticity of the lid pressing the lid against the container. However, the force between the lid and the container is greatest at the acute interface 48 where the wall and the neck are not as parallel as other places around the circumference of the opening. In order to withstand the greater force at the acute interface, the lid is placed with the tongue close to the acute interface. The tongue provides greater stability of the lid - at least in the parts of the lid closest to the tongue. Otherwise, the lid may break either as it is being inserted in the opening, as it is located in the opening or when it is removed from the opening.

Preferably, the lid is placed so that it points straight down towards the first plane, but the lid may be placed such that its direction deviates with up to ±30° (or ±20°) with respect to a vertical line (or a normal to the first plane). The direction is to be understood as the direction of the axis through the tongue between the proximal end and the distal end.

This also places the tongue within a projection of the body onto the third plane (the plane in which the tongue extends). Thus, the body shadows the tongue meaning that when a urinal is pulled out of a packaging box, it is less likely that the body of the uri- nal does not pull the lid of an adjoining urinal off thereby making it possible for the sachet to fall out of the container. Fig. 4a shows the cross section A-A' of the lid shown in fig. 2.

Fig. 4a illustrates the tapering of the sidewall 36 of the lid, i.e. the sidewall has a coni- cal shape with a base at the collar, and extending towards an apex beyond the lid bottom (the sidewall does not end at the apex, but the conical shape stops at the lid bottom).

The tapering is constituted by a first angle φ between the sidewall and the second plane defined by the bottom surface of the lid bottom 46.

The first angle is 85°. The first angle may take on other values. Ideally, the first angle is less than 90°, and is selected from the range of 75°-89°, or 75°-86°, or 75°-83°, or 78°-89°, or 78°-86°, or 78°-83°, or 81°-89°, or 81 °-83°, or 83°-89°, or 83°-86°, or 86°- 89°.

Fig. 4b shows a cross section in a plane of a collar of the lid shown in fig. 2.

Both the radius of the inner circumference and the radius of the outer circumference of the collar varies, i.e. the width of the collar varies around the collar, which is an evidence of the lid being made from a moulded pulp material.

The collar has a maximum width wi and a minimum width W2. The collar is to provide structural stability to the lid and at the same time not extend beyond the lip when said lid is accommodated in the opening. Otherwise other urinals may engage the collar when being pulled out of the packaging box and rip the lid off the container. The lid is moulded such that the ratio between the maximum width and the minimum width is greater than 1 , but less than 1.5. The following items describe further features according to the present specification.

1. A health care urinal for collecting and disposing of urine, comprising: a container made of a moulded pulp material,

said container comprising a body and a neck, said body having a container bottom with a concave or planar outer surface defining a first plane for placing said health care urinal in a stable position on a horizontal surface,

said body being hollow and defining a compartment for storing said urine, said com- partment including a fluid absorbent powder enclosed in a water dissolvable sachet, said body extending continuously into said neck, said neck having an incline with respect to said first plane, an inner surface and a lip defining an opening into said container, said opening having a maximum diameter of 5 ± 1 cm, said health care urinal further comprising a lid made of a moulded pulp material for inserting into said opening and closing said container,

said lid comprising

a lid bottom,

a tapered sidewall extending from said lid bottom for extending into said opening and contacting said inner surface,

a collar extending from said sidewall opposite to said bottom,

a single tongue extending from said collar,

said tongue extending beyond said lip when said lid being located in said opening, said tapered sidewall having a higher degree of flexibility than said lip for providing a press fit between said lid and said container when said lid being located in said opening for withstanding said sachet forcing said lid out of said opening if said container being turned upside down. 2. A health care urinal according to item 1 , said health care urinal being a male urinal.

3. A health care urinal according to any of the preceding items, said sidewall contacting said inner surface of said neck when said lid being located in said opening. 4. A health care urinal according to item 3, said sidewall and said inner surface having a static friction coefficient between 0.6 and 1.2.

5. A health care urinal according to any of the preceding items, said lip having a first oval shape.

6. A health care urinal according to item 5, said first oval shape having the major axis 7. A health care urinal according to item 5, said sidewall having a cross section with a second oval shape. 8. A health care urinal according to item 7, said second oval shape complementing said first oval shape.

9. A health care urinal according to any of the preceding items, said incline being greater than 15° and less than 55° such that greater than 25° and less than 45°.

10. A health care urinal according to any of the preceding items, said lid bottom having an outer surface defining a second plane.

11. A health care urinal according to any of the preceding items, said collar having a maximum width and a minimum width, and defining a ratio between the maximum width and the minimum width, the ratio being greater than 1 and less than 1.5.

12. A health care urinal according to any of the preceding items, said tongue having a proximal end at said collar, and a distal end, said distal end being opposite said proxi- mal end.

13. A health care urinal according to item 12, said distal end being beyond said lip when said lid being located in said opening. 14. A health care urinal according to item 12, said distal end defining a first radius of said lid.

15. A health care urinal according to item 14, said first radius being a maximum radius of said lid.

16. A health care urinal according to item 12, said tongue having a first side and a second side, each side extending between said proximal end and said distal end.

17. A health care urinal according to item 16, said collar having an outer circumference between said first side and said second side, said outer circumference extending over an angle of more than 270°. 18. A health care urinal according to items 14 and 17, said circumference having a maximum radius, said maximum radius being smaller than said first radius. 19. A health care urinal according to item 12, said distal end facing said first plane when said lid being located in said opening.

20. A health care urinal according to item 12, said distal end being closer to said first plane than said proximal end when said lid being located in said opening.

21. A health care urinal according to any of the preceding items, said tongue extending in a third plane, said distal end of said tongue being within a projection of the body onto the third plane. 22. A health care urinal according to item 1 , said sidewall having a first wall part opposite said tongue, and said neck having an upper neck part adjacent said first wall part, said first wall part extending substantially parallel to said first neck part.

23. A health care urinal according to item 1 , said sidewall having a second wall part proximate said tongue, and said neck having a second neck part adjacent said second wall part, said second wall part having an angle greater than 10° with respect to said second neck part.

24. A method of manufacturing a health care urinal for collecting and disposing of urine, said method comprising: providing a first mould, and a first fibrous slurry, moulding said first fibrous slurry into a container by means of said first mould, said container comprising a body and neck,

said body having a container bottom with a concave or planar outer surface defining a first plane for placing said health care urinal in a stable position on a horizontal surface,

said body being hollow and defining a compartment for storing urine, said body extending continuously into said neck, said neck having an inner surface and a lip defining an opening into said container, said opening having a maximum diameter of 6 ± 3 cm, providing a water dissolvable sachet with a fluid absorbent powder in said compartment, providing a second mould, and a second fibrous slurry, moulding said second fibrous slurry by means of said second mould into a lid for inserting into said opening and closing said container, said lid comprising

a lid bottom,

a tapered sidewall extending from said lid bottom for extending into said opening, a collar extending from said sidewall opposite said lid bottom,

a single tongue extending from said collar,

said tongue extending beyond said lip when said lid being located in said opening, said tapered sidewall having a higher degree of flexibility than said lip, pressing said lid into said opening and providing a press fit between said lid and said container for withstanding said sachet forcing said lid out of said opening if said container being turned upside down. 25. A package for transporting a plurality of health care urinals, said package comprising:

a corrugated fiberboard box having a rectangular shape,

said corrugated fiberboard box enclosing a first health care urinal according to item 1 , and a second health care urinal according to item 1 ,

said first health care urinal adjoining said second health care urinal,

a first neck of said first health care urinal facing a first direction,

a second neck of said second health care urinal facing a second direction, said second direction being opposite said first direction. 26. A lid for inserting into an opening of a container of a health care urinal, said lid being made of a moulded pulp material, said lid comprising: a lid bottom,

a tapered sidewall extending from said lid bottom for extending into said opening, a collar extending from said sidewall opposite to said bottom,

a single tongue extending from said collar,

said single tongue extending beyond said lip when said lid being located in said opening,

said lid having a hole for accommodating an outlet tube of a urinary drainage bag, said hole having a diameter of 1 ,5 ± 1 cm.

In the following is given a list of reference signs that are used in the description and the drawings referred to in the description.

Φ Angle between sidewall and lid bottom

Wi Maximum width of collar

W2 Minimum width of collar

10 Container

12 Bottom surface of container

14 Neck

16 Lip

18 Body

20 Sachet

22 Fluid absorbent powder

24 Upper half-shell

26 Lower half-shell

28 Adjoining line

30 Lid

32 Tongue

34 Collar

36 Sidewall

38 First side of tongue

40 Second side of tongue

42 Proximate end of tongue

44 Distal end of tongue

46 Lid bottom

48 Acute interface