WASTE DISPOSAL APPARATUS FOR HOSPITAL BEDS AND THE LIKE

• US 3,849,811 A
• Filed: 11/05/1973
• Issued: 11/26/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Michael P. Cyll
• Original Assignee: Michael P. Cyll
• Inventors: Cyll, Michael P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nunberg, Casmir A.
• Application Number:
  US05/412,660
• Time in Patent Office: 386 Days
• Field of Search: 5/90-92 128/293,295 4/110,112,120,124,142
• US Class Current: 5/604
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/02 with toilet conveniences, or specially adapted for use with toilets

Abstract

A bed including hospital beds has a frame, a spring and a mattress and combined therewith a waste disposal apparatus. This apparatus includes a funnel chute nested and supported within a similarly shaped aperture through the mattress extending through the spring. A plastic disposable bag below said spring is threaded through the chute and its open end folded over and retainingly engages the funnel rim. A removable plug of sponge rubber with plastic cover is snugly nested down into the mattress with its top surface flush with the top surface of the mattress. In a modification, the funnel extends all the way through the mattress and the disposable bag extends around and is secured to the lower portion of the funnel. A further modification includes in combination with a funnel through the mattress and spring of a bracket slidably supporting a bedpan.

Claims

1. In a bed including a hospital bed having a frame, a spring and a mattress;

a waste disposal apparatus;

said mattress having an upright aperture therethrough cylindrical at the top and terminating in a frustoconical portion;

a funnel chute nested and supported within said aperture;

said funnel chute haviNg a frustoconical upper portion cooperatively nested and supported in the frustoconical aperture of the mattress, and a cylindrical portion depending through and below said spring;

a plastic disposable bag depending axially below said spring having a throated upper end portion threaded through said funnel chute with its free open end folded over and retainingly engaging the funnel rim and suspended therefrom, said folded over portion of the bag being frictionally retained between the funnel chute and mattress; and

a plug of sponge rubber and having a washable plastic cover, snugly nested down into said mattress aperture with its top flush with the top surface of the mattress.

2. In the bed of claim 1, a sleeve of plastic material secured to the mattress within the mattress aperture.

3. In the bed of claim 1, the spring aperture being defined by a metal ring nested within and secured to said spring coaxial to and outward of said funnel chute.

4. In a bed including a hospital bed, having a frame, a spring and a mattress;

a waste disposal apparatus;

said mattress having an upright aperture therethrough cylindrical at the top and terminating in a frusto-conical portion;

a funnel chute nested and supported within said aperture;

said funnel chute having a frusto-conical upper portion cooperatively nested and supported in the frusto-conical aperture of the mattress, and a cylindrical portion depending through and below said spring;

a plastic disposable bag depending axially below said spring having a throated upper end portion threaded over the cylindrical portion of said funnel chute;

a resilient fastener surrounding said throated portion and funnel chute; and

a plug of sponge rubber and having a washable plastic cover snugly nested down into said mattress aperture with its top flush with the top surface of the mattress.