Portable nursing device

• US 4,130,123 A
• Filed: 12/08/1977
• Issued: 12/19/1978
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/1976
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: ROY L Wines & Son Incorporated
• Original Assignee: ROY L Wines & Son Incorporated
• Inventors: Wines, Roy L. Jr., Wines, Roy L. III
• Primary Examiner(s): Bleutge, Robert L.
• Application Number:
  US05/858,859
• Time in Patent Office: 376 Days
• Field of Search: 4/1, 4/167, 4/187 R, 4/159, 134/58 R, 134/58 DL, 134/95, 134/99, 134/107, 134/115 R, 134/115 G, 134/152, 134/170, 134/56 R, 134/56 D, 134/57 R, 134/57 DL
• US Class Current: 134/56.00R
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 1/02 Portable toilet tables; Wash cabinets or stands for automobiles B60R; for railway cars B61D; for ships B63B; for aircraft B64D; connected to waste pipe E03C
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 12/001 Trolleys for transport of medicaments, food, linen, nursing supplies carts specially adapted for surgery or diagnosis A61B50/13; hand carts B62B3/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 9/02 Cleaning devices washing and rinsing machines for crockery and tableware A47L15/00

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.

Claims

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 two of said receptacles enclosed in the cabinet when displaced between closed and open positions, control valve means connected to two of said conduits for selectively supplying liquid to said receptacles, means connecting a third of the conduits to each of the receptacles for draining waste liquid therefrom, means responsive to movement of one of the closure means to the closed position for sealing one of the receptacles internally of the cabinet, and means rendered operative in response to movement of the other of the closure means to open position for supporting the other of the receptacles externally of the cabinet, said other of the receptacles being displaceable between an extended position supported on the other of the closure means and a retracted position stored internally of the cabinet.

2. The combination of claim 1 including means rendered operative in response to said sealing of said one of the receptacles for cleaning articles loaded therein.