Hospital bed tray

• US 4,357,881 A
• Filed: 11/03/1980
• Issued: 11/09/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Harold D De Long
• Original Assignee: Harold D De Long
• Inventors: De Long, Harold D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Grosz, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US06/203,339
• Time in Patent Office: 736 Days
• Field of Search: 5/507, 5/508, 108/77, 108/80, 108/47, 108/49, 108/135, 211/149, 211/150, 211/88
• US Class Current: 108/49
• CPC Class Codes: A47B 23/02 releasably mounted on the bedstead or another item of furniture
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/0507 Side-rails
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/0524 characterised by integrated accessories, e.g. bed control means, nurse call or reading lights

Abstract

A tray is adapted to conveniently attach to the siderail of a hospital bed such that when not in use it can be easily collapsed and swung out of the way in depending position from the upper rung of a standard hospital bed siderail.

Claims

1. For a hospital bed having a siderail defining an upper rung and a lower rung, an accessory holder attachable to said rungs comprising:

(a) a tray having an inside edge;

(b) means adjacent the inside edge of said tray for clamping onto said upper rung;

(c) an elongated brace pivotally mounted at one end to said tray and having means at the other end to engage said lower rung and support said tray in generally horizontally extended position;

(d) said brace being telescoping to accommodate rails of different rung spacing;

(e) said means for clamping onto said upper rung clamping pivotally such that said tray may be swung down into a generally depending horizontal position when said brace is released from said lower rung;

(f) said tray defining a recessed channel in the lower surface thereof, and said brace is pivotally mounted in said channel such that same will swing into said recessed channel when not in use, and including means to retain same in said channel; and

(g) said tray being formed generally as a sheet and said recessed channel in the bottom thereof forms a divider in the top thereof.