Connecting element for medical bedrail, assembly comprising it and procedure for assembling said assembly

A connecting element for a medical bedrail:

• wherein the connecting element connects a connecting rod and a pivotable rod of a foldable bedrail for medical beds, including at least one of stretchers, beds and gurneys, the foldable bedrail having at least two positions, namely a folded position and a deployed position, wherein the connecting element comprises:
• a jaw, an inner surface of the jaw being concave in shape and adapted for abutting tightly against an outer surface of the connecting rod,
• two locking teeth fashioned symmetrically on or at an upper edge of the inner surface of the jaw, each on one side of the jaw, respectively, and adapted for co-operating with locking slots fashioned in the connecting rod, and
• two legs fashioned on an upper part of an outer side of the jaw and arranged symmetrically with respect to a central plane (R) extending vertically and longitudinally through a center of the jaw, each of the two legs comprising a snap-fit element fashioned on an inner surface of one of the two legs facing an inner surface of another of the two legs, the snap-fit elements being arranged symmetrically with respect to the central plane (R) and co-operating with two snap-fit openings fashioned in the pivotable rod, the snap-fit elements and the corresponding snap-fit openings being fashioned to allow the pivotable rod to be rotated in the central plane (R).