Sick or wounded patient bed having separable frame and moving/lifting apparatus for the separable frame
AssigneeMatsura Kenkyujo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsTakashi Matsuura, Reiko Matsuura
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Abstract
A bed is capable of allowing a patient to go away from the bed, take a bath, or go to a stool of his or her own will. The bed includes a bed frame having a plurality of comb teeth cushions provided with intervals therebetween in the longitudinal direction of the bed, and a separable frame having a plurality of comb teeth cushions in alternate relation to the comb teeth cushions on the bed frame. The separable frame includes a moving/lifting apparatus for moving the separable frame away from the bed frame to a wheelchair stand, a toilet stool, a bathtub, etc., which are installed beforehand away from the bed while the patient is kept rested thereon.
Claims21
A sick or wounded patient bed including a bed frame which includes horizontal side members extending between front and rear ends of said bed in the longitudinal direction, with a plurality of comb teeth cushions spaced from each other extending in the transverse direction from said horizontal side members, horizontal end members extending in the transverse direction and joined to both ends of said horizontal side members at front and rear ends of said bed, and legs supporting said horizontal side members and said horizontal end members, said bed comprising:
- a separable frame which has a pair of outer side members extending in the longitudinal direction outside both side ends of said comb teeth cushions on said horizontal side members, and said comb teeth cushions extending between said pair of outer side members in the transverse direction, said cushions positioned to fill gaps between adjacent comb teeth cushions on said horizontal side members to enable said comb teeth cushions of said separable frame to pass through the gaps between said comb teeth cushions vertically and to move away from said bed frame to cooperate with associated equipment, such as a wheelchair stand, a toilet stool, a bathtub, or the like placed outside of the bed;
- a moving/lifting apparatus including support arms, a guide frame and a lift frame, said support arms fixedly attached at its base portion to an upper portion of said lift frame, extending horizontally from the fixed base portion to support said separable frame detachably and move it on the floor under said bed parallel to said support arms guiding said support arms to allow vertical movement of said support arms;
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- said support arms adapted to raise said separable frame for movement outwardly of said bed, adapted to lower said separable frame onto said associated equipment placed outside of the bed, and adapted to return thus-moved separable frame to the original position on said bed frame again.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.