Hospital bed footboard assembly

• US 3,893,197 A
• Filed: 02/11/1974
• Issued: 07/08/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Maurine E. Ricke
• Original Assignee: Maurine E. Ricke
• Inventors: Ricke, Maurine E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gilliam, Paul R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Calvert, Andrew M.
• Application Number:
  US05/441,560
• Time in Patent Office: 512 Days
• Field of Search: 5/317R,319,327R,327B 297/423,425,429,431,433,437
• US Class Current: 5/651
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 20/021 Foot or leg supports

Abstract

A footboard assembly for use with a bed to provide support and positioning of the feet of a bedridden person including a pair of brackets adapted for mounting on opposite side rails of a bed frame, near the foot of the bed. Extending upwardly from the brackets are a pair of tubular vertical support arms, with a foot-supporting panel extending therebetween over the bed. Each bracket includes a C-channel member which receives the bed frame within its cavity. A bolt received through one of a plurality of holes in the web of the C-channel member clamps the bed rail between a portion of the bolt head and the web, with the shank of the bolt disposed adjacent the lower edge of the bed rail. The bolt head is cut chordally to fit flush with the inner surface of the flange of the C-channel member. The plurality of holes permits the assembly to be clamped to beds of varying rail configuration.

Claims

1. A foot support assembly for beds, comprising a pair of support brackets for mounting on opposite side rails of a bed frame, each support bracket including a channel member with an upper flange and a lower flange extending equally from a medial web and defining therebetween a cavity for receiving a side rail of the bed, a plurality of holes disposed in said web, at least one bolt received through one of said plurality of holes in said web and secured thereto for clamping the bed side rail between a portion of the head of said bolt and said web;

each of said support brackets including a vertically disposed tubular member secured to said web;

a pair of support arms each received in said tubular member and supported thereby, and a foot support member extending between said support arms and secured thereto.

2. The foot support assembly of claim 1, wherein said head of said bolt comprises a generally circular member including a chordal surface for abutting one of said flanges of said support bracket in non-rotating fashion.

3. The foot support assembly of claim 2, wherein said plurality of holes are varyingly spaced from said lower flange to accommodate differing bed side rails, and said bolt head includes a plurality of chordal surfaces, each adapted to abut one of said flanges with said bolt disposed in a selected one of said plurality of holes.

4. The foot support assembly of claim 2, wherein each of said support arms includes a plurality of vertically spaced apertures through the upper extremity thereof, and said foot support member includes bolt means at eacH end thereof for engaging one of said apertures.