Rehabilitation bed

• US 4,805,249 A
• Filed: 09/11/1987
• Issued: 02/21/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Pulukadang Freddy Usman
• Original Assignee: Pulukadang Freddy Usman
• Inventors: Mutou, Tadanobu, Usman, Pulukadang F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ramirez, Ramon O.
• Application Number:
  US07/095,303
• Time in Patent Office: 529 Days
• Field of Search: 5/90, 5/60, 5/66, 5/80, 297/DIG. 4, 297/DIG. 10
• US Class Current: 5/619
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/00 Beds specially adapted for nursing; Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons stretchers with facilities for picking up patients or disabled persons A61G1/003
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/053 Aids for getting into, or out of, bed, e.g. steps, chairs, cane-like supports
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 3/00 Appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk about apparatus for helping babies to walk A47D13/04; orthopaedic devices for correcting deformities of, or supporting, limbs A61F5/0102; exercising apparatus for the feet or toes A63B23/10; stairways or ramps E04F11/00

Abstract

A rehabilitation bed especially suitable for helping a patient stand up and begin walking includes a matress split into at least three parts and supported by suitably movable frame suport members, the mattress including a back and head supporting part which is raiseable in the usual way, and separate leg supporting parts which are movable outwardly away from one another so as to provide a central gap where the patient can put his feet without first shifting his waist toward the bed side.

Claims

1. A rehabilitation bed having a first frame portion and a second movable frame portion, said second mobile frame portion including left and right movable frame portions;

a split mattress having a back and head supporting mattress section supported by said first frame portion and left and right mobile leg supporting mattress sections supported by said left and right movable frame portions, respectively; and

means for causing said left and right mobile mattress sections and said left and right movable frame portions to split and move apart from one another towards left and right sides of the bed, respectively, to provide an opening therebetween.

2. A rehabilitation bed in accordance with claim 1 wherein said means for causing said left and right mobile mattress sections to move apart also constitutes means to cause at least parts of said right and left mobile mattress sections to descend toward the floor.

3. A rehabilitation bed according to claim 2 wherein said means for causing said right and left mobile mattress sections to move apart and descend comprises a parallelogram link mechanism, and said left and right movable frame portions comprises a pair of split-plates which support central parts of said right and left mobile mattress sections.

4. A rehabilitation bed in accordance with claim 1, wherein said mattress is provided with a bowel evacuation recess.