Adjustable bed rail
AssigneeSimplicity, Inc.
InventorsKenneth C. Waldman, Jerome Drobinski
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Abstract
An adjustable bed rail capable of gripping a mattress either alone or together with a bedspring to hold the protective side rail in place. A locking assembly is adjustable to adjust for the height of the mattress either alone or together with the bedspring. Friction pads and/or friction surfaces may be mounted along the bed rail to further enhance the locking of the side rail to the mattress. The bed rail may be provided with a rail that drops down to facilitate climbing on to or off of the bed and can be locked into the upright position.
Claims29
A bed rail comprising:
- a support portion and a rail portion movably coupled to the support portion;
- the support portion being adjustable to grip top and bottom surfaces of a member such as a mattress member independently of a position of the movable rail portion;
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- locking means for releaseably locking the support portion at a desired gripping position.
A bed rail comprising a support portion and a rail portion secured to the support portion;
- the support portion having a pair of lower members being configured for positioning beneath a member such as a mattress member and a pair of upper members joined to said rail portion and configured to engage a top of the mattress member;
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- said rail portion being pivotally coupled to the upper members of said support portion and moveable, independently of said support portion, between an upright position and a released position wherein the rail portion is pivoted downwardly toward a sidewall of the mattress to facilitate climbing upon and climbing off of the mattress.
A bed rail comprising:
- a support portion having an upper and lower generally parallel arms separated by a vertical member that adjusts to define a distance between them, with the lower arm being a greater length than the upper arm;
- the vertical member including a locking member that retains the upper and lower arms at the defined distance, whereby portions of said upper and lower arms are configured to respectively engage top and bottom surfaces of a member such as a mattress member to releasably secure the bedrail to the mattress member;
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- a rail portion of variable area that is pivotally attached to the upper parallel arms for movement between an engaged position and a disengaged position and means for fixing the rail portion in at least the engaged position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.