US 4,869,378 A · Mounting rail for hospital appliances and bracket

Abstract

A mounting rail is attached, preferably horizontally to a wall or a hospital wall unit. The front of the rail has a longitudinal opening, the upper edge of the opening being offset downward. Inside the front of the bar the opening widens out upwardly and, to a lesser extent, downward. Longitudinal rounded cross-section grooves are formed in the top and bottom of the bar, spaced slightly inward from the front. Many different styles of clamps for hospital equipment brackets fit the rail. In one form of bracket clamp has a back face which fits flush with the front of the bar and has a top stud with a downward bead which fits into the top longitudinal groove. The bottom stud is rotatable and has a rounded cross section stud formed with a flat. When the flat is uppermost, the clamp may be removed or slid along the bar, but when turned away from the bar the clamp is locked. A twist dial on the front of the clamp turns the lower stud.

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Dependent claims

A rail for installation on a hospital wall or the like suitable for support of brackets and clamps for hospital apparatus, said rail having a back, a substantially planar top substantially perpendicular to said back, a substantially planar bottom parallel to said top and a front, said front formed with a longitudinal inward extending opening having a top edge spaced down from said top, a bottom edge spaced up from said bottom, an upward extension inward of said top edge, a downward extension inward of said bottom edge and a back wall spaced forward of said back, said top edge being spaced below said top a greater distance than said bottom edge is spaced above said bottom.

A rail for installation on a hospital wall or the like suitable for support of brackets and clamps for hospital apparatus, said rail having a back, a top, a bottom and a front, said front formed with a longitudinal inward extending opening having a top edge spaced down from said top, a bottom edge spaced up from said bottom, an upward extension inward of said top edge, a downward extension inward of said bottom edge and a back wall spaced forward of said back, said top edge being spaced below said top a greater distance than said bottom edge is spaced above said bottom, said top and bottom being formed with shallow longitudinally extending grooves, and a clamp, said clamp comprising

a body shaped to fit across said front and having means for attachment of hospital apparatus to said clamp,
a fixed first stud fixed to said body having a first bead on its distal end shaped to engage a first of said longitudinal grooves, said first stud being on one side of said rail,
a rotatable second stud rotatable in said body, said second stud having a second bead on its distal end shaped to clamp said rail by engaging a second of said longitudinal grooves when said second stud is in first position and to be disengaged from said second longitudinal groove when said second stud is in second position, said second stud being on the side of said rail opposite said first stud and means on said body to move said second stud between position.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Mounting rail for hospital appliances and bracket

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Mounting rail for hospital appliances and bracket

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Abstract

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