Mattress assembly

• US 4,244,066 A
• Filed: 06/25/1979
• Issued: 01/13/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Emma Rukawina
• Original Assignee: Emma Rukawina
• Inventors: Rukawina, Emma
• Primary Examiner(s): Frazier, Roy D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Grosz, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US06/051,946
• Time in Patent Office: 568 Days
• Field of Search: 5/90, 5/463, 5/495, 5/496, 5/498, 5/499, 5/484, 4/112, 4/113
• US Class Current: 5/691
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/02 with toilet conveniences, or specially adapted for use with toilets

Abstract

A mattress includes a recess for receivably seating a single-use receptacle having a screened opening for receiving fluids and wastes from the body of a bed patient. The sheet wrapping the mattress has an opening in registry with the receptacle opening. The receptacle, when filled with fluids, is removable by sliding the same through a slot in the mattress which extends from the mattress recess to one side thereof thereby avoiding the necessity of moving the patient. A fresh receptacle is similarly inserted into the mattress.

Claims

1. A mattress assembly for use in connection with a bed provided with a preexisting mattress, comprising:

a receptacle having a top opening for receiving fluids from the body of a bed occupant and screen means fixedly secured to said receptacle over the top opening thereof, a mattress having a recess for receiving said receptacle therein, sheet means for wrapping said mattress having an opening therein for registry with said receptacle top opening to permit the flow of fluids through said sheet opening into said receptacle, and a pair of tuck flaps at opposite ends of said sheet means adapted to be tucked under said preexisting mattress, said mattress including a lateral access slot extending from said recess to one side of said mattress to permit slideable withdrawal and insertion of said receptacle from and into said recess without removing said sheet means from said mattress, and an insert removably receivable in said access slot whereby insertion of said insert in said access slot fills the latter and provides a substantially continuous flat upper surface thereover, the opposite sidewalls of said insert being substantially coextensive with the sidewalls of said access slot when said insert is inserted in said access slot, and means for releasably securing the periphery of said sheet opening to the rim of said receptacle defining said receptacle top opening comprising fibrous gripping material and means for releasably securing each of said insert sidewalls to the adjacent access slot sidewalls respectively comprising fibrous gripping material.

2. A mattress assembly as defined in claim 1 wherein said receptacle comprises a hemispherical bowl.

3. A mattress assembly as defined in claim 1 wherein said receptacle comprises a substantially rectangular bowl.

4. A mattress assembly as defined in claim 1 wherein said means for releasably securing said sheet opening to said receptacle rim comprises an annular strip of said fibrous gripping material secured to the rim of said receptacle with the gripping surface thereof facing upwardly to the underside of said sheet means.

5. A mattress assembly as defined in claim 1 wherein said means for releasably securing said insert sidewalls to the adjacent access slot sidewalls comprises a first pair of longitudinal strips of fibrous gripping material secured to the top surface of said mattress alongside said slot sidewalls and a second matching pair of longitudinal strips of fibrous gripping material secured to the top edges of the insert sidewalls.

6. A mattress assembly as defined in claim 1 including fluid absorbing material disposed in said receptacle.

7. A mattress assembly as defined in claim 1 wherein said mattress and said insert comprise cellular foam material.