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US 5,926,870 AGranted
Safety bed for children with special needs
OwnerPatti Ann Branca-Barnes, David George Stramielloinventors
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Abstract
A crib-like twin-size bed for disabled children with special needs having unusually high end and side panels, the one, or both, side panels being a combination fold-down plus slide-down side panel hinged together for permitting servicing of the bedding and the child by folding down the top panel while allowing convenient egress and ingress of the child into and out-of a wheelchair as necessary by sliding down the bottom panel.
Claims10
An invalid child's safety bed comprising:
- four L-shaped upright corner posts for supporting a main frame, including panel guide slots therein for mounting angles and guide bars at inside corners thereof, the posts being positioned in a vertical orientation on a floor to define a rectangular space therebetween;
- four panels of equal width and equal height having top and bottom rails and bars therebetween, each of two panels connected to each other by a hinge and to two of the posts enclosing said rectangular space to form each side of the bed, each side including an upper sting-out panel having a top rail with is a lock set assembly that allows the swing-out panel to swing out and down 180.degree. relative to the side, and a bottom rail having said hinge attached thereto, and each side of the bed including a lower slide-down panel having a top rail attached to said hinge and a bottom rail with a panel locking clip attached thereto said panel locking clip in movable contact with a foot lever;
- two narrower end panels of equal length for the head and foot of the bed, having top and bottom rails and bars therebetween;
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- a rectangular metal mattress frame support for supporting a mattress, having a plurality of cross members with angle iron braces fixed to the sides thereof and channel irons to the ends thereof for receiving said cross members therein, being placed within said rectangular space at a low level near a floor and said angle iron braces being attached to the posts.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.