HOSPITAL PATIENT CARE UNIT

• US 3,829,906 A
• Filed: 01/08/1973
• Issued: 08/20/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John L. Mcphee
• Original Assignee: John L. Mcphee
• Inventors: McPhee, John L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Artis, Henry K.
• Application Number:
  US05/322,009
• Time in Patent Office: 589 Days
• Field of Search: 4/110,3,6,134,DIG.2,10
• US Class Current: 4/312
• CPC Class Codes: E03D 11/025 Combined with wash-basins, urinals, flushing devices for chamber-pots, bed-pans, or the like
• CPC Class Codes: E03D 11/12 Swivel-mounted bowls, e.g. for use in restricted spaces slidably or movably mounted bowls; combinations with flushing and disinfecting devices actuated by the swiveling or sliding movement of the bowl
• CPC Class Codes: E03D 9/002 Automatic cleaning devices
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 4/02 Disappearing bowl

Abstract

A hospital patient care unit is provided which consists of a folding toilet in a compact cabinet wherein the bowl of the toilet is removable so that the unit can be used either as a bedpan or in the normal manner. The unit is designed so that when it is closed, the bowl is automatically flushed and washed out and an interlock prevents opening the cabinet while the flushing operation is taking place.

Claims

1. A hospital care unit comprising in combination:

a. a cabinet, b. a door on said cabinet, said door having a horizontal hinge at the bottom thereof, c. a stop mounted between said cabinet and said door whereby said door can be opened outwardly and held in a horizontal position and folded upwardly into said cabinet into a vertical position wherein said door is flush with the front wall of said cabinet, d. a toilet seat hinged on said door by a bracket extending upwardly from said door whereby said toilet seat is spaced from said door and can be swung to a horizontal position or to a vertical position while said door is in the horizontal position, e. clamp means on said door, and f. a bedpan unit removably held by said clamp means whereby said bedpan can be used as a normal toilet or separated and used as a toilet elsewhere.

2. The patient care unit of claim 1 wherein flushing means is provided within said cabinet, said means being actuated by closing the door of the toilet unit.

3. The hospital patient care unit of claim 2 wherein an interlock is provided whereby said door is locked in the closed position whilE the unit is being flushed.