Hospital bed

• US 3,309,717 A
• Filed: 03/20/1963
• Issued: 03/21/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 03/20/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Warren R. Black
• Original Assignee: Warren R. Black
• Inventors: Black, Warren R.
• Application Number:
  US04/266,580
• Time in Patent Office: 1,462 Days
• US Class Current: 5/618
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/015 divided into different adjustable sections, e.g. for Gatch position

Claims

1. IN A BED:

A BASE FRAME;

MATTRESS-SUPPORTING SPRING SECTIONS MOUNTED ON THE BASE FRAME AND INCLUDING A FOOT SPRING SECTION;

A LOW FOOTBOARD MOUNTED ON THE FOOT SPRING SECTION FOR SWINGING MOVEMENT BETWEEN A POSITION EXTENDING PERPENDICULARLY UPWARDLY FROM SAID FOOT SPRING SECTION AND A POSITION OF ALIGNMENT WITH SAID FOOT SPRING SECTION;

AND MATTRESS-STOPS PIVOTALLY MOUNTED IN THE OUTER END OF THE FOOTBOARD AND SWINGABLE FROM POSITIONS WITHIN THE FOOTBOARD TO POSITIONS EXTENDING PERPENDICULARLY UPWARDLY FROM THE FOOTBOARD WHEN SAID FOOTBOARD IS IN ITS POSITION OF ALIGNMENT WITH SAID FOOT SPRING SECTION, SAID MATTRESSSTOPS SERVING AS ABUTMENTS FOR A MATTRESS.