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Bed side rails

  • US 5,732,423 A
  • Filed: 08/04/1995
  • Issued: 03/31/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/04/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A chair bed for supporting a person, the chair bed having a head end, a foot end, and opposing sides, said chair bed comprisinga frame,a deck supported on the frame, the deck comprising head, seat and foot sections,a mattress on the deck and having an upwardly-facing patient surface and head, seat and foot portions corresponding, respectively, to said head, seat and foot sections of said deck,said head section of said deck and said mattress portion thereon being pivotable from a generally horizontal down position through various positions upwardly to a back-support position,an elongated collateral deck member pivotally coupled to the deck at a first side of the bed for movement about a pivot axis transverse to a longitudinal direction of the bed between an up position generally parallel to the first side of the bed and a generally vertically downwardly extending down-out-of-the-way position,two pairs of side rails one pair on each side of said chair bed, each pair of side rails including a body section side rail mounted to move with said deck seat section and extending laterally adjacent said deck head and seat sections and a head section side rail mounted to move with said deck head section relative to said body section side rail and extending adjacent only said deck head section, andone of the side rail being connected to the collateral deck member and movable with the collateral deck member between the up position and the down-out-of-the-way position.

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