PEDIATRIC DEVICE FOR IMMOBILIZING A PATIENT-CHILD

• US 3,655,178 A
• Filed: 04/12/1968
• Issued: 04/11/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/1968
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Jean A. Vezina
• Original Assignee: Jean A. Vezina
• Inventors: Vezina, Jean A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Juhasz, Andrew R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gilden, Leon
• Application Number:
  US04/720,917
• Time in Patent Office: 1,460 Days
• Field of Search: 269/322,323,328,71 108/1,12 128/70 250/50,54,55 5/101,61,105
• US Class Current: 5/601
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/3776 by means of a blanket or belts to chairs only A61F5/3792

Abstract

A pediatric device for immobilizing a child for a period of time, the device formed of a resting board fixed at the ends thereof to a pair of spaced upright equal regular octagonal hoops, similarly oriented. The resting board is fixed eccentrically in relation to the hoops and the plane thereof is parallel to one side of each hoop.

Claims

1. A pediatric device for immobilizing a patient during radiological operations or similar medical acts, and turning the patient'"'"''"'"'s body about his length, the said device comprising:

a. a rigid resting board on which said patient is to be secured in an outstretched position;

b. a pair of relatively narrow supporting hoops, said hoops being in the form of equilateral polygons having corresponding sides thereof parallel, each of said corresponding sides constituting a supporting surface upon which the device may rest, c. means for rigidly, non-rotatably securing the ends of said board over substantially the entire width thereof to said supporting hoops parallel to one side of the hoops in a substantially eccentric position relative to the axis passing through the center of both hoops, so that the board has a fixed orientation relative to the sides of the hoops, whereby no movement is permitted between said board and said hoops, d. means to secure said patient on said board in said outstretched position, wherein a patient secured on the board may be rotated about the length of his body by rotating the hoops and by resting the latter on two corresponding sides.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1 wherein said supporting hoops are octagonal.

3. A device as claimed in claim 1 comprising counterweights mounted between said board ends and the sides of said hoops parallel and most adjacent said board ends, wherein the stability of said device is increased when resting on said most adjacent sides.

4. A device as claimed in claim 1 including means to pivotally suspend said board and supporting hoops when the board is in a vertical position.

5. A device as claimed in claim 4 wherein said means comprise:

a gripping member having channel-shaped lateral edges into which one of said supporting hoops is slidably received;

a wall bracket having a horizontal branch, and means to pivotally mount said supporting hoops about their centers, onto said gripping member.

6. A device as claimed in claim 1 including motor means for rotating said resting board and hoops about the said axis of said hoops.

7. A device as claimed in claim 6 wherein said motor means comprises a motor and speed reducer assembly operatively connected to the center of one hoop and bearing means for supporting the other hoop.

8. A device as claimed in claim 7 wherein said bearing means comprises a circular hoop fixed over said other hoop and a roller on either side of said circular hoop to rotatably support said other hoop and circular hoop.