Child delivery bed

• US 4,821,350 A
• Filed: 03/05/1987
• Issued: 04/18/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/1986
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LIC Care AB (Getinge AB)
• Original Assignee: Landstingens Inkopscentral, LIC Ekonomisk Forening
• Inventors: Feldt, Mats
• Primary Examiner(s): Grosz, Alexander
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nicholson, Eric K.
• Application Number:
  US07/022,202
• Time in Patent Office: 775 Days
• Field of Search: 5/60, 5/90, 5/66, 5/67, 5/68, 269/327
• US Class Current: 5/602
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 13/00 Operating tables; Auxiliary appliances therefor illumination of operating tables F21L, F21S or F21V ; adjustability of tables in general A47B9/00; tables for radiation diagnosis A61B6/04, drainage or irrigation pans, bags, or attachments A61G7/02, A61G7/0503
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 13/0009 Obstetrical tables or delivery beds chairs for gynaecological purposes A61G15/005

Abstract

A child delivery bed includes a raisable backrest section which is located at one end of a center section, and further includes a leg support section that can be displaced axially beneath the center section. The center section has provided on the edge part thereof facing the leg support section a sunken recess which is open towards the leg support section, therewith to enable blood and other substances to run down to the underlying leg support section. The leg support section has formed thereon a longitudinally extending channel, the width extension of which is at least equal to the width of the open end of the sunken recess and which slopes down towards the outer end portion of the leg support section, at which end portion the bottom of the channel terminates at a drainage edge. Detachably arranged beneath the drainage edge is a collecting vessel for collecting blood and other substances running down from the drainage edge. The vessel thus accompanies the leg support section during its adjustment to different desired positions, in which positions blood running from the sunken recess will always be collected in the channel for drainage into the collecting vessel.

Claims

1. A child delivery bed comprising a raisable backrest section located at one end of a centre section, and a leg support section which is located at the other end of the centre section and which can be displaced axially to different positions beneath said centre section, characterized in that the upper side of the centre section has provided thereon a sunken recess which is open in the vicinity of a rear edge of the centre section, so as to facilitate drainage of, e.g., blood at one edge of the sunken recess;

in that the upper side of the leg support section has provided thereon a longitudinally extending channel which lies below the rear edge of the sunken recess and has a length such as to lie at a lower level than said edge of the sunken recess in all positions of the leg support section;

in that the channel slopes down towards and extends to adjacent an outer end part of the leg support section, and the bottom of said channel terminates at a drainage edge; and

in that the leg support section is provided with means for detachably supporting a collecting vessel in a position beneath the drainage edge, the channel being sunk between two longitudinally extending side parts of the upper side of the leg support section and the recess nesting within the channel between said side parts.

2. A bed according to claim 1, characterized in that the rear edge of the sunken recess is located within the channel, between side walls thereof.

3. A bed according to claim 1, characterized in that the drainage edge comprises an edge of a drainage aperture formed in the bottom of the channel.

4. A bed according to claim 3, characterized in that an end wall is arranged at the outer end of the leg support section on the side of the drainage aperture opposite the drainage edge.

5. A bed according to claim 4, characterized in that said end wall has provided therein a recess which extends from the upper edge of said wall.

6. A bed according to claim 1, characterized in that the side parts slope laterally down towards the channel.

7. A bed according to claim 1, characterized in that located on the centre section is a cover sheet which has a recess provided therein;

and in that the channel and the drainage edge are embodied in a further cover sheet located on the leg support section.