Personal bed-assistance device
OwnerEmmet Elziver Willard, Jane Leigh Willardinventors
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Abstract
A personal assistive device that can be installed onto a mattress, preferably a standard hospital bed mattress, to provide handles on the opposing sides of the mattress that may be grasped by a person getting into or out of the bed to ease the transition in or out, or by a person lying in the bed to reposition his or her body while remaining in the bed. The assistive device is a fabric construction that is adapted to be easily and removably installed onto directly over the sheet and other mattress coverings such as a mattress pad on a standard hospital bed mattress.
Claims11
A personal assistive device dimensioned to be removably installed onto a mattress to enable a person to reposition themselves up or down on the mattress when lying on said mattress in bed or to roll from side to side and for transitioning into or out of the bed, comprising:
- a rectangular shaped fabric panel having a first end and a second opposing end comprised of two shorter sides of said fabric panel, said ends being separated by two longer sides of equal length;
- a pair of handles formed into the topside surface of said fabric panel, each of said handles comprising a pocket encasing a length of rope;
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- securing means carried on the edges of the shorter sides of the fabric panel for securing said assistive device onto said mattress for use.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.