Sectional bed

• US 4,183,109 A
• Filed: 04/21/1978
• Issued: 01/15/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William H. Howell
• Original Assignee: William H. Howell
• Inventors: Howell, William H.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nunberg, Casmir A.
• Application Number:
  US05/898,788
• Time in Patent Office: 634 Days
• Field of Search: 5/60, 5/66-68, 5/86, 297/316, 297/354, 297/373, 297/377, 297/DIG. 10
• US Class Current: 5/618
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 17/162 with adjustable back-rest
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 17/163 and a foot-rest
• CPC Class Codes: A47C 20/042 by means of screw-and-nut mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 2200/32 lying
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 2200/34 sitting
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/002 having adjustable mattress frame
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/012 raising or lowering of the whole mattress frame A61G7/005, A61G7/008 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1046 Mobile bases, e.g. having wheels
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1076 Means for rotating around a vertical axis
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/16 converting a lying surface into a chair
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 297/10 Occupant-arising assist

Abstract

A bed for use in hospitals, and the like, wherein a patient may be moved to a sitting position, with the head portion of the bed raised and the foot portion of the bed lowered, the bed being in three sections and pivotal to permit the foot section to be swung outwardly so that the feet of the patient may be lowered to a natural sitting position.

Claims

1. In a bed, a rigid rectangular frame, a sectional spring and mattress pivotally mounted on said frame, means for elevating said sectional spring and mattress and means for selectively adjusting the position of the sections and means for pivoting the sections from longitudinal to transverse relative to the frame, said means for selectively adjusting the position of the sections being mounted on the rigid rectangular frame adjacent one side member thereof and midway between the ends of said rectangular frame.

2. The device defined in claim 1 wherein said sections consist of a mid-section, a foot section and a head section, said means of selectively adjusting the position of the sections having motor driven, externally threaded, shafts, followers on said shafts and pivotal bars connected to said respective followers at one end and to the respective head and foot sections at the other end.

3. The device defined in claim 1 wherein said sections consist of a mid-section and a foot and head section, respectively, said foot section being hinged on its side face to the adjacent side face of the said mid section, and having motor driven means for positioning said foot section relative to said mid-section.

4. The device defined in claim 1 wherein said mid-section has slotted, upwardly curved supports mounted on each side at the end adjacent the edge section, pins extending outwardly from each side of the head section and adapted to ride in the slots in said slotted supports, and motor driven means for selectively positioning said sections relative to said midsection.

5. The device defined in claim 1 wherein said elevating means having a pivotal connection with said section, will permit rotation of said sections relative to said frame to a position transversely of said frame, and positioning said foot section laterally of the said frame and beyond the adjacent side member of the frame.

6. The device defined in claim 5 wherein said foot section will move into a vertical position beneath said mid-section at one extreme and into horizontal alignment with said mid-section at the other extreme.