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tragicworldrecord t1_j1n2ju4 wrote

47 years ago?

"SHEWEE is a British company that creates Female Urinary Devices (FUDs), which allow women to urinate while standing, with no need to remove clothes. The original Shewee was invented in 1999 by Samantha Fountain while she was at university. Her idea won Sam the 1999 James Dyson Product Design Award."

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LowLeadBambi t1_j1n37gr wrote

Yeah this doesn't read like it was written by a 63 year old. I call BS.

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Smirkydarkdude t1_j1n5ff5 wrote

Ah. Well some Canadian beat them to it back in '75. But I guess it couldn't have been THE actual SheWe. Thanks for the fact check.

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Foinatorol t1_j1n7wzx wrote

Reddit community…can we find a pre-shewee photo of a canadian wee funnel?

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ph4mp573r t1_j1nahhm wrote

I can't find any device on the market at that time. In fact the first device to market seems to have been in 1993, a few years before the SheWee.

However, there are two parents of interest in the right time period:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3177500A/en

https://patents.google.com/patent/US3964111A/en

The second, from 1975 has the exact purpose as the SheWee, and it's patent expiration of 1993 coincides with such products hitting the market. It's theoretically possible the original inventor sold some small scale in the decades between 1975 and 1993, and the sudden adoption when the patent expires shows there was intetest, but no way to prove it that I can find.

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Foinatorol t1_j1oy6ac wrote

Interesting;thanks ph4..corroborates the timeframe given by OP. I wonder if either one looks familiar to OP?

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