Hospital bed having a Y-shaped base

• US 5,054,141 A
• Filed: 07/23/1990
• Issued: 10/08/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/1989
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hill-Rom Company Incorporated (Baxter International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hill-Rom Company Incorporated (Baxter International Inc.)
• Inventors: Hornbach, David W., Foster, L. Dale
• Primary Examiner(s): Trettel, Michael F.
• Assistant Examiner(s): SAETHER, FLEMMING
• Application Number:
  US07/557,323
• Time in Patent Office: 442 Days
• Field of Search: 5/60, 5/63, 5/81 B, 5/86, 296/220
• US Class Current: 5/611
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 2210/50 for radiography
• 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 7/0507 Side-rails
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/0509 sliding or pivoting downwards
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/0514 mounted to individual mattress supporting frame sections
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/052 characterised by safety means, e.g. to avoid injuries to patient or caregiver
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/0525 Side-bolsters rests specially adapted for beds A61G7/065; non-medical devices for prevention against falling-out A47C21/08

Abstract

A hospital bed is supported on a Y-shaped base to facilitate the introduction of a C-arm for imaging a patient'"'"'s chest. Head guards are mounted on each side of the head end of the bed on linkages that permit the head guards to be swung toward the foot end of the bed to improve the positioning of the C-arm over the head end of the bed. The head panel has pivotable longitudinal edges to further improve the positioning of the C-arm over the head end of the bed. Pivotable longitudinal edges of the head and leg panels permit head and foot guards to be moved laterally inwardly to narrow the bed for transporting a patient.

Claims

1. A hospital bed comprising:

a rectangular bed frame having a head end and a foot end,

a base below said bed frame,

said base having a Y-shape consisting of a stem under the foot end of the frame and two spaced branches connected to the stem, the spaced branches terminating in parallel sections underlying the head end of the bed,

said parallel sections being spaced apart substantially the same distance as the width of the bed frame,

and a cantilever linkage angled upwardly from the free end of said stem and connected to the central portion of said bed frame to support said bed frame above said base, thereby opening the area under the head end of the bed to permit the lower end of a C-arm to pass between said branches under the head end of the bed.

2. A hospital bed comprising:

a rectangular bed frame,

a base below said bed frame,

said base having a Y-shape consisting of a stem connected to two spaced branches that create a V-section terminating in parallel sections spaced apart by a distance substantially equal to the width of the bed frame,

a cantilever linkage angled upwardly from the free end of said stem and connected to the central portion of said bed frame to support said bed frame above said base,

articulated patient support panels mounted above said frame, one of said panels being a head panel having a translucent section being disposed at the end of said frame overlying said spaced branches,

whereby a C-arm having opposed ends can be positioned at the side of said head panel by moving said opposed ends past the head end of said frame between said branches of said base and then swinging said C-arm to the side of said head panel.

3. A hospital bed comprising:

a rectangular bed frame having a head end and a foot end,

a base below said bed frame,

said base having a Y-shape consisting of a stem under the foot end of the frame and two spaced branches connected to the stem, the spaced branches terminating in parallel sections which underlie the bed frame at the head end of the bed and are spaced apart a distance substantially equal to the width of the bed frame,

and a cantilever linkage angled upwardly from the free end of said stem and connected to the central portion of said bed frame to support said bed frame above said base,

patient support panels including a head panel mounted on said frame, said head panel having longitudinal sections along its sides that are hinged to swing upwardly to narrow the bed to approximately the width of said frame,

said spaced branches of said base lying within a vertical projection of said frame,

whereby, with a longitudinal section swung upwardly, a cardiologist or nurse is impeded by neither a longitudinal section nor said base from standing close to a patient on the bed.