Evacuation mattress
OwnerChristopher Kenalty, Miriam Gordoninventors
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Abstract
An evacuation mattress comprises an integral mattress including a mattress interior, a mattress top face sheet, four mattress side face sheets, and a bottom sheet. The bottom sheet forms both the mattress bottom face sheet and an evacuation bottom sheet. The integral evacuation mattress also includes a top evacuation sheet configured to be deployed over a patient who is disposed above the mattress top face sheet. The integral evacuation mattress further includes securing structure configured to secure the top evacuation sheet to the patient and the integral mattress. Transport structure is also included in the integral evacuation mattress and is configured for a person to drag the secured patient and integral mattress from a hospital.
Claims20
An evacuation mattress comprising:
- an integral mattress including a mattress interior, a mattress top face sheet, four mattress side face sheets, and a bottom sheet, the six mattress sheets being coupled together to enclose the mattress interior,
- wherein the bottom sheet consists of a single sheet which forms the mattress bottom face sheet and an evacuation bottom sheet;
- a bottom surface of said bottom sheet having affixed thereto a reduced friction portion, said reduced friction portion covering less than the entire bottom surface of said bottom sheet;
- a top evacuation sheet coupled to at least one of a mattress side face sheet and the bottom sheet, and configured to be deployed over a patient who is disposed above the mattress top face sheet;
- securing structure configured to secure the top evacuation sheet to the patient and the integral mattress;
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- transport structure configured for a person to move the secured patient and integral mattress.
An evacuation mattress, comprising:
- an integral, one-piece mattress including:
- a mattress interior;
- a mattress top face sheet;
- four mattress side face sheets;
- a one-piece integral bottom sheet consisting of a bottom face sheet and an evacuation sheet;
- at least one top evacuation sheet coupled to at least one of the sheets, said at least one top evacuation sheet being configured to enclose a person lying above the top face sheet;
- securing structure configured to tighten said top evacuation sheet downward over the patient to secure the patient to the evacuation mattress;
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- a slide portion covering less than an entire bottom surface of the bottom sheet, and configured to provide a slide surface for the evacuation mattress;
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- manual transport structure configured for a care-giver to slide the evacuation mattress and secured patient along a horizontal surface.
A method of manufacturing an integral evacuation mattress, comprising:
- providing an integral mattress having a mattress interior, a mattress top face sheet, four mattress side face sheets, and a one-piece integral bottom sheet consisting of a bottom face sheet and an evacuation sheet with no other sheet between said bottom face sheet and the mattress interior;
- affixing a slide structure to less than the entire bottom surface of the bottom face sheet;
- affixing an evacuation top sheet to at least one of the sheets, the evacuation top sheet being configured to be deployed over a patient who is disposed above the mattress top face sheet;
- affixing securing structure to the evacuation top sheet;
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- affixing manual-transport structure to at least one of the bottom face sheet and the top evacuation sheet.
A method for using an integral evacuation mattress, comprising:
- pulling an evacuation top sheet, from a storage location on at least one of a side face sheet and a bottom face sheet of the integral mattress, over a patient lying on bedding material on the integral mattress, the bottom face sheet consisting of a single sheet with no other sheet between the bottom face sheet and a mattress interior;
- manipulating securing structure on the evacuation mattress to tighten down the top evacuation sheet to secure the patient to the top of the integral mattress;
- moving the secured patient and the integral mattress to the floor;
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- using manual-transport structure, slide the secured patient and the evacuation mattress along the floor with a slide structure affixed to a bottom surface of the bottom face sheet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.