Portable nursing device
First Claim
1. In a portable nursing unit having a plurality of liquid receiving receptacles and a plurality of flexible conduits connected thereto through which liquid is conducted to and from said receptacles, a mobile cabinet enclosing the conduits and said receptacles, closure means mounted on the cabinet for alternately concealing and exposing at least one of said receptacles when displaced between closed and open positions, control valve means connected to at least one of said conduits for selectively supplying liquid to said one of the receptacles, means connecting another of the conduits to each of the receptacles for draining waste liquid therefrom, cleaning means mounted within said one of the receptacles and connected to the valve means for cleaning articles loaded into said one of the receptacles, and programming control means connected to the valve means for effecting a cleaning operational cycle within said one of the receptacles.
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Abstract
A mobile cabinet encloses a plurality of basins or receptacles to which hot and cold water may be conducted under control of valves for cleaning, washing and drinking purposes through flexible conduits and from which water is drained through a flexible waste conduit. A water heater and a waste drain pump associated with one of the receptacles cooperates with other facilities therein to clean articles during a timed-controlled cleaning cycle, while manually operated valves control the supply of water to the other receptacles for washing and drinking purposes.
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- 1. In a portable nursing unit having a plurality of liquid receiving receptacles and a plurality of flexible conduits connected thereto through which liquid is conducted to and from said receptacles, a mobile cabinet enclosing the conduits and said receptacles, closure means mounted on the cabinet for alternately concealing and exposing at least one of said receptacles when displaced between closed and open positions, control valve means connected to at least one of said conduits for selectively supplying liquid to said one of the receptacles, means connecting another of the conduits to each of the receptacles for draining waste liquid therefrom, cleaning means mounted within said one of the receptacles and connected to the valve means for cleaning articles loaded into said one of the receptacles, and programming control means connected to the valve means for effecting a cleaning operational cycle within said one of the receptacles.
- 15. In combination with a plurality of liquid receiving receptacles at least two supply conduits conducting liquid at different temperatures to at least two of the receptacles, a common drain conduit connected to all of said receptacles, heating means connected to one of said supply conduits for heating the liquid supplied to one of the two receptacles, article inverting means mounted within said one of the receptacles for reorientating articles loaded thereinto, spray means connected to said one of the supply conduits for discharging the liquid onto the articles within said one of the receptacles, time-controlled means connected to the heating means, the inverting means and the spray means for operation thereof in sequence during a cleaning cycle, and drain pump means rendered operative during said cleaning cycle for inducing outflow of liquid from said one of the receptacles into the common drain conduit.
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