Support means for use in combination with a generally horizontally disposed seating surface for supporting persons while in a sitting position, such as a chair, bed, hospital bed, chaise lounge or the like. The support means comprises a pair of generally vertically disposed, preferably adjustable posts, adapted to extend from the floor to the support surface, these posts each having a lateral side wall secured thereto and extending rearwardly therefrom and adapted to flank a person sitting on th...

An apparatus which provides for effortless moving of a non-ambulatory patient from his bed or operating table to a cart, e.g., recovery room stretcher or the like and from the cart to other non-porous surfaces, e.g., X-ray tables, etc. The major component comprises an inflatable mattress having a constant flow of air pressure communicating therewith and a plurality of nozzles over one side thereof to direct air jets outwardly therefrom. The mattress normally is positioned with the air jets direc...

A patient underpad characterized in its ability to provide cushioning for a patient and to readily absorb large volumes of liquid in a manner such that the liquid absorbed does not thereafter irritate the patient. The underpad includes a moisture-impervious bottom layer, a moisture-absorbing layer covering the bottom layer and a closed cell, expanded thermoplastic top layer covering the moisture-absorbing layer and having perforations or openings therethrough of sufficient number and size to per...

A patient litter with a body supporting platform fabricated from a generally radiolucent plastic resinous substance and having a substantially uniform cross-sectional radio absorbing thickness and being adapted to support a patient on the upper surface thereof. X-ray film cassette receiving means are disposed immediately beneath the body supporting platform, these means being adapted to receive electromagnetic radiation from a source through the body of a patient on the body supporting platform,...

The invention disclosed is a device for weighing a patient confined in bed by using weight detecting elements or load cells disposed between each of the standard legs of the bed and the floor. The weight detecting elements are positioned in communication with a counting and indicating means for identification of the weight of the patient.

A bed for a patient comprising a cover plate and a flush pot for patient's excretion arranged below the bed and adapted to move vertically and horizontally. The cover plate normally closes a hole formed in the bed for a normal use as a bed and when desired the cover plate automatically lowers and horizontally moves away from the position and simultaneously the flush pot moves to the position immediately below the hole of the bed and raise to a position that the upper periphery of the pot is in f...

A patient's couch of an X-ray examining apparatus is swingable about its longitudinal axis and is mounted with its front side upon the instrument carrying device. The couch has holding means for the patient. The present invention is characterized by the use of a supporting member having a core consisting of a hard foam substance the cross-section of which is reduced from its longitudinal axis of symmetry toward the two longitudinal edges and ends with an acute angle at these longitudinal edges. ...

A patient-lifting stretcher comprises a movable flexible frame formed of two closed longitudinal slideways between which there are movably mounted two parallel support sheets staggered with respect to each other which have one end in common provided with a reversing roller and two separate ends each having a reversing roller. Over these rollers and sheets there slide two cloths whose common end is connected to a fixed point and whose other ends, after passing over the rollers, are each firmly co...

A tape switch near the edge of a bed frame closes a warning signal circuit when the weight of a patient near the edge of the bed presses on an actuating switch arm that is cantilevered from the bed frame.

A patient handler having three panels hingably attached to each other which can be formed into either a sitting or a prone position, and having support assemblies for use in maintaining the patient handler in a given position, the patient handler being connectable to a carriage assembly which allows the patient handler to be moved to different locations when being in use by a patient.