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Patient care timer

  • US 4,225,852 A
  • Filed: 02/06/1978
  • Issued: 09/30/1980
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/06/1978
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a medical care facility including designated areas for the care of patients;

  • a monitoring station for receiving signals enabled by said patients and signal generating means deployed proximate each said patient, said signal generating means including a plurality of signal lines each extending from said monitoring station to a corresponding wall jack proximate said patients a corresponding plurality of manually operable call switches each adapted for manipulation by said patients, and a corresponding plurality of connectors deployed from the respective ones of said call buttons for insertion into said wall jacks, the improvement comprising;

    a resettable timer assembly including a plug adapted for insertion into said wall jack and provided with a receptacle in circuit with said plug for receiving said connector, said timer assembly including exciting means for producing electrical excitation, timing means connected to said exciting means for producing a timing signal a predetermined period of time after the receipt of said electrical excitation, manually operable resetting means connected to said timing means for restarting said timing means after said timing signal is produced thereby and for disabling said timing signal for yet another said predetermined period of time, and switch means connected across said receptacle rendered closed by said timing signal.

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