Hospital bed with pivoting headboard

• US 5,398,359 A
• Filed: 01/18/1994
• Issued: 03/21/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 01/15/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Hill-Rom Services Incorporated (Baxter International Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hill-Rom Company Incorporated (Baxter International Inc.)
• Inventors: Foster, L. Dale
• Primary Examiner(s): Saether, Flemming
• Application Number:
  US08/183,731
• Time in Patent Office: 427 Days
• Field of Search: 5/658, 5/600, 5/503.1, 248/122, 248/124, 248/125, 248/282, 248/283, 248/289, 248/323, 248/324, 248/325.1, 248/326, 248/327, 248/186, 248/919, 248/920, 248/921, 248/922, 248/923
• US Class Current: 5/658
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 12/004 mounted on the ceiling
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 2203/80 for connecting a trolley to a device, e.g. bed or column table
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 2210/30 for intensive care
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/05 Parts, details or accessories of beds devices for prevention against falling out A47C21/08, A47D7/00 ; mattresses A47C27/00
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 248/922 Angular

Abstract

In a hospital room, arms are pivoted on vertical axes that pass through the head and foot ends of a patient'"'"'s bed. One of the arms carries a computer terminal at its free end. The other arm carries a power column or a portion of a power column at its free end. The arms are swingable around the end of the bed and to either side of the bed, whereupon the person attending the patient can use the instruments on the arms at the point of care for the patient.

Claims

1. Apparatus for a hospital room having a floor comprising:

an elongated, generally rectangular hospital bed,

a power column having electrical outlets, gas outlets, a monitor for the display of patient data, and other patient-treating accessories,

means for swinging said power column on an arc that extends from one side of said bed past an end of said bed to the other side of said bed,

said power column having upper and lower sections, said upper section defining a frame,

said frame including said monitor mounted therein, said monitor having a display screen within a housing,

said upper section being rotatable with respect to said lower section, whereby said monitor can be rotated to an optimum viewing position regardless of the position to which said power column is swung with respect to said bed.

2. Apparatus for a hospital room having a floor comprising:

an elongated, generally rectangular hospital bed;

an elongated, generally vertically disposed power column having at least one electrical outlet and at least one gas outlet;

a floor mounted support permitting said power column to swing about a first generally vertical axis on an arc from one side of said bed past an end of said bed to the other side of said bed;

said power column having upper and lower sections, said upper section defining a frame rotatably mounted to said lower section for rotation about a second generally vertical axis relative to said lower section; and

a monitor, having a display screen within a housing, mounted within said frame;

whereby said monitor can be rotated to an optimum viewing position regardless of the position to which said power column is swung with respect to said bed.

3. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein said monitor is rotatably mounted to said frame for rotation relative thereto about a generally horizontal axis.

4. The apparatus of claim 2 wherein said frame is a rectangular frame.