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US 5,179,744 AGranted
Hospital bed with inflatable and collapsible side edges and laterally-movable side guards
AssigneeHill-Rom, Inc.
InventorsL. Dale Foster, James H. Breidenbach
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Abstract
A hospital bed has a frame mounted on a base. Articulating head, seat and leg patient support panels are mounted on the frame. Side guards are mounted on the panels. Patient support panels have longitudinal edges that are collapsible to narrow the bed for transporting a patient. The side guards are inwardly movable to contribute to the narrowing of the bed while still protecting the patient from falling out of the bed.
Claims4
A hospital bed comprising:
- a base,
- a bed frame mounted on said base,
- a plurality of patient support panels mounted on said base in a longitudinally-spaced series,
- a mattress overlying said panels;
- said mattress having a plurality of main mattress sections, each having an upper surface, and having a plurality of side sections substantially hollow on each side of said main mattress sections, each of which side sections is selectively individually inflatable to widen at least a portion of said bed, said side sections when inflated having upper surfaces substantially co-planar with said upper surfaces of said main mattress sections to provide a patient support surface of extended width, each of which side sections is selectively individually deflatable and inwardly collapsible to narrow at least a portion of said bed to provide a patient support surface of narrowed width.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.