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US 5,465,438 AGranted
Mobile nursing station
OwnerThomas Allman, Cathy A. Leeinventors
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Abstract
A mobile nursing home unit is formed by an upright cabinet containing an assembly of nursing facilities including a sink and a superposed gray water tank and fresh water reservoir selectively supplying water to and draining from the sink into the gray water tank. Miscelleanous washcloths, soaps, lotions, towels and other desired small items are temporarily stored on the cabinet top wall and maintained thereon during mobile movement of the cabinet by a kitchen rail extending along adjacent edge limits of the top wall.
Claims5
A mobile nursing station, comprising:
- an assembly of components, the components including:
- an upright rectangular cabinet having vertically spaced top and bottom walls and front and back and end walls extending vertically therebetween in orthogonal relationship, the top wall including a pair of juxtaposed recessed sink cavities adjacent the front wall and one end wall, each sink cavity of said pair of sink cavities having a sink cavity floor, and
- each sink cavity floor of said pair of sink cavity floors having a drain outlet, and
- a faucet rotatably mounted to the top wall in adjacency to the sink cavities extending over and movable from one sink cavity of the pair of sink cavities to the other one of the pair of sink cavities, and the faucet including a faucet valve to selectively direct fluid flow through the faucet, and
- a rod-like L-shaped kitchen rail mounted to the top wall in adjacency to the back wall and the end wall opposite said one end wall in substantial coextensive relationship with the top wall between the cabinet end walls and between the cabinet front wall and back wall, for forming a temporary storage area between the kitchen rail and the pair of sink cavities, and the kitchen rail having a plurality of spaced-apart upright T-shaped kitchen rail mounts, each kitchen rail mount of said plurality of kitchen rail mounts having a stem portion secured to the top wall and having a tubular bar portion cooperatively axially surrounding an intermediate portion of the L-shaped kitchen rail rod, and
- a plurality of caster wheels depending from said bottom wall in cabinet supporting relationship, each caster wheel of said plurality of caster wheels including a bracket secured to the cabinet bottom wall adjacent an end wall of the cabinet, the bracket having bracket legs journalling the caster wheel, and
- a wheel brake for immobilizing a caster wheel secured to at least one caster wheel bracket of said plurality of caster wheels, and
- the cabinet having a horizontal dividing partition forming an upper compartment an a lower compartment, and
- a gray water tank having vertically spaced tank top and tank bottom walls within the upper compartment, the gray water tank top wall having a gray water inlet opening, and
- sink cavity drain tubing connecting the sink cavity floor drain outlets with the gray water tank inlet opening, the gray water tank bottom wall having a gray water outlet opening, and a gray water tank valve normally closing the gray water tank drain opening, and
- a fresh water reservoir having a top wall within the bottom compartment, the fresh water reservoir top wall having an inlet opening and an outlet opening, and
- fresh water tubing extending between and connecting the faucet with the fresh water outlet opening, and
- an electric motor driven pump interposed in the fresh water tubing, and
- a source of electrical energy connected with the pump motor.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.