Herbert W Copelan

US Patent:

50396161, Aug 13, 1991

Filed:

Aug 31, 1989

Appl. No.:

7/401107

Inventors:

Herbert W. Copelan - Boca Raton FL

International Classification:

G01N 3394
G01N 3700

US Classification:

436 56

Abstract:

This invention provides a method and a test area to prevent tampering in the collection of specimens for substance abuse testing from a subject utilizing a specimen collection container. More particularly, the present invention prevents the substitution of the subject by another person and prevents the subject from introducing a previously obtained and concealed false specimen while minimizing intrusion on the subject's privacy.

US Patent:

63312786, Dec 18, 2001

Filed:

Mar 13, 2001

Appl. No.:

9/804314

Inventors:

Herbert W. Copelan - Boca Raton FL

International Classification:

B01L 300

US Classification:

422102

Abstract:

A self-contained double handhold that is a complete device for preventing a subject's hands from putting a false specimen into a container. Previous hand-restricting apparatus was too cumbersome and unwieldy to be used. The present device is practical. It is about the size and shape of a tall water tumbler. The double handhold consists of two independently operable, hollow units, each of which restricts one hand. The units telescope part way together to secure the container inside and must be separated to allow access to it. Locking the units together requires only one latch, but the device uses two latches, each controlled by a different one of the two units. Thus, both hands must be engaged at the same time to open the two latches, separate the units, expose the container, and reassemble the two units. The container is housed in the lumen of one unit, which is held naturally in the hand. When the units are separated, access to the container is almost as direct and convenient as with a free container.

US Patent:

52232212, Jun 29, 1993

Filed:

Jul 27, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/919277

Inventors:

Herbert W. Copelan - Boca Raton FL

International Classification:

G01N 3394
G01N 3700

US Classification:

422 61

Abstract:

This invention is a method and means to prevent tampering when urine specimens are donated for testing and to do so without violating privacy. The method is to require that the hands of the donor subject be continuously engaged while the specimen container is exposed, so as not to allow the subject's hands the physical freedom necessary to introduce a false specimen into a urine container. The mans of the invention is a device that ensures that the engagement is properly followed or that shows any failure to comply. The preferred device consists of a container holder with two separate parts that lock together to make a container inaccessible to a subject. The process of hand engagement unlocks the two parts to make the container accessible. Disengagement of the hand restriction while the two units are separated relocks the mechanism and blocks reassembly.

US Patent:

56039034, Feb 18, 1997

Filed:

Dec 18, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/574271

Inventors:

Herbert W. Copelan - Boca Raton FL

International Classification:

B01L 900

US Classification:

422104

Abstract:

This invention is a container holder that eliminates the potential of hand-restricting apparatus to cause cross contamination of urine specimens collected with the apparatus. The holder has a dismountable element (7) to directly support a specimen container (3). It has a fixed element (8) to temporarily position the dismountable one. The fixed element is a permanent part of the apparatus but safely distant from, and out of the direction of, possible soiling by voided urine. The dismountable element is discarded after a single use, unlike the previously taught apparatus, in which the entire holder is a fixed unit of the apparatus, continually reused, and a potential source of contamination.

US Patent:

51339358, Jul 28, 1992

Filed:

Jul 29, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/737417

Inventors:

Herbert W. Copelan - Boca Raton FL

International Classification:

G01N 3394
G01N 3700

US Classification:

422 61

Abstract:

The invention provides a method and a test area to prevent tampering in the collection of specimens for substance abuse testing from a subject utilizing a specimen collection container. More particularly, the present invention prevents the substitution of the subject by another person and prevents the subject from introducing a previously obtained and concealed false specimen while minimizing intrusion on the subject's privacy.