Bed

• US 3,924,281 A
• Filed: 09/12/1974
• Issued: 12/09/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John Reynell Gibbs
• Original Assignee: John Reynell Gibbs
• Inventors: Gibbs, John Reynell
• Primary Examiner(s): Nunberg, Casmir A.
• Application Number:
  US05/505,577
• Time in Patent Office: 453 Days
• Field of Search: 5/61,81,83,84,88
• US Class Current: 5/88.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 2200/32 lying
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/001 with means for turning-over the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1015 Cables, chains or cords
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1019 Vertical extending columns or mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1032 Endless belts
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1044 Stationary fixed means, e.g. fixed to a surface or bed
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1046 Mobile bases, e.g. having wheels
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1055 Suspended platforms, frames or sheets for patient in lying position
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1057 Supported platforms, frames or sheets for patient in lying position

Abstract

A bed for preventing bed sores and enabling a patient to be turned, in which net material is secured to two spaced apart substantially parallel bars. In one construction at least one bar can be raised and lowered to cause movement of the net material under the patient thereby causing a rolling motion. In another construction the bars are rotatable about their axis to wind the net material onto or off the bars so that when they are rotated in opposite directions the patient is either raised or lowered and when they are rotated in the same direction the patient is caused to roll or turn.

Claims

1. A bed comprising, in combination:

a. a pair of elongate members;

b. means for mounting said members so that their axes are substantially parallel;

c. on each elongate member, a plurality of radially outwardly projecting pins arranged in a line parallel to the axis of the elongate member;

d. at least one wide mesh web of net material extending between said members and secured thereto, by hooking over said radially outwardly projecting pins;

e. hoop portions connected to said elongate members and extending radially outwardly therefrom along the line of said pins;

f. Curved cross section locking bars securable under said hoops effective to retain the net material in position on said pins;

g. means for rotating said members about their axes; and

h. means for locking said members against rotation.

2. A bed as claimed in claim 1, wherein said mounting means comprise a substantially rectangular frame, having end portions and side portions, laterally spaced apart recesses in one end portion, two laterally spaced apart pairs of rollers in the other end portion and a bearing disc carried adjacent one end of said elongate member, said bearing discs each being positionable in one of said recesses and a portion of each elongate member then resting in contact with the two rollers of a pair, so that the elongate members extend substantially parallel to one another.

3. A bed as claimed in claim 2 wherein said end portions each comprise laterally extending strips and four uprights releasably securable in pairs to each pair of strips, the uprights each comprising members having a double bend whereby the frame can be adjusted to suit a particular size of hospital bed.

4. A bed as claimed in claim 2, wherein the means for rotating the members comprise a handle pivotally mounted about an axis perpendicular to the axis of the associated elongate member adjacent to the other end of each member.

5. A bed as claimed in claim 4, wherein the locking means comprise lugs on said other end portions, engageable by said handle when the latter are in a plane passing through their pivots and substantially perpendicular to the axes of the elongate members.