Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
  • A47D—FURNITURE SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR CHILDREN
  • A47D15/00—Accessories for children's furniture, e.g. safety belts or baby-bottle holders
  • A47D15/005—Restraining devices, e.g. safety belts, contoured cushions or side bumpers
  • A47D15/008—Restraining devices, e.g. safety belts, contoured cushions or side bumpers in beds, play-pens or cradles

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a system for maintaining an individual in a sleeping position adapted to prevent gastric reflux and / or to prevent choking.
• the invention particularly relates to a system for maintaining an infant lying down in a bed, a system commonly known as "parachute for babies", improved.
• the lengths of the straps are adjusted to keep an infant lying on their backs in their bed while preventing them from turning around.
• Variants exist which have advantages such as that of forcing the coating in an oblique position with respect to the horizontal, head and bust higher than the rest of the body, which reinforces the prevention of gastric refluxes detrimental to the comfort of the body. child, even dangerous for his health.
• the existing systems allow the child inserted and held in the harness to turn in a sleeping position on the belly and thus risk an accidental obstruction, partial or total of its airways, likely to cause suffocation.
• systems are provided to be threaded around a mattress, which requires a significant installation time and is often particularly painful especially when the installation or uninstallation task is recurrent.
• the invention makes it possible to improve at least some of the disadvantages of the prior art by providing an infant maintenance system for preventing gastric reflux or choking, the system comprising, a mechanical structure, a sleeping element such as for example a mattress having a bearing surface, as well as a harness, which comprises at least three holding flaps, each having a surface in contact with the bearing surface, each extending on the sleeping element towards the edge of the latter, and each ending with a fastener adapted to a quick coupler on the mechanical structure.
• two of the at least three flaps extend laterally with respect to a longitudinal axis of the harness and a third flap extends along the longitudinal axis, in the direction of the head of the infant maintained in the harness.
• the dimensions of the bases of the flaps are of substantially equal dimensions to those respectively in correspondence of the dorsal portion of the harness.
• the harness further comprises second elements for holding an infant in the harness, such as, for example, a clip-on belt for positioning and rapid withdrawal of the infant into the harness. 4. List of figures.
• FIG. 1 represents an infant maintenance system for preventing a gastric reflux or suffocation according to a particular and non-limiting embodiment of the invention.
• modules shown are functional units, which may or may not correspond to physically distinguishable units.
• these modules or some of them are grouped into a single component, or consist of the functionality of the same software.
• some modules are composed of separate physical entities.
• FIG. 1 represents an infant system SYST for preventing gastric reflux or choking in a particular and non-limiting embodiment of the invention.
• the SYST holding system includes a mechanical structure
• the coating element has an upper surface S, substantially horizontal or oblique with respect to the horizontal.
• the mechanical structure L is a bar bed structure and the sleeping element MA is a horizontal mattress inserted in the bed structure with bars L.
• Figure 1 is a sectional top view of the entire child-bed system SYST system.
• the cutting plane is set at a height greater than the harness H and the sleeping element MA, so that these elements appear from above and that the bars appear in section in a cutting plane parallel to the surface of SYST system support, typically parallel to the ground, carrying the entire sleeping and holding system.
• the harness H adapted to hold on the back of an infant, in a horizontal position or ideally oblique, raised head, to avoid any risk of regurgitation, gastric reflux or suffocation, is positioned in support of the surface upper S of the mattress MA.
• the harness H comprises at least three holding and positioning flaps V1, V2 and V3 having substantial bearing surfaces, much greater than those of a strap, and facilitating rapid positioning while avoiding to present mechanical characteristics similar to those of a cord or a strap, likely to cause a winding and presenting a risk of strangulation, in particular for an infant.
• the two flaps V1 and V2 extend laterally relative to the harness H, that is to say outwardly relative to the longitudinal axis A1 of the harness, and allow a quick and easy positioning of the harness on the surface S support of the mattress MA.
• the bases of the flaps V1, V2 and V3, ie their respective sides in connection with the dorsal part of the harness H, are of dimensions substantially equal to those of this dorsal part.
• the bases of the flaps V1 and V2 extend substantially over the length of the infant trunk and the base of the flap V3 extends substantially across the width of the infant's bust (or shoulder width).
• the shutters V1, V2 and V3 are thick enough to position correctly and without creases during rapid application of the harness H on the mattress MA.
• the thickness of the flaps may be between a few millimeters and two or three centimeters, depending on the rigidity of the material or materials used.
• the flap V3, extending outwards in the direction of the infant's head, has properties similar to those of flaps V1 and V2.
• the flap V3 can be attached to an anchorage point of the mechanical structure L located higher than the bearing surface to position the head infants to a level higher than that of its pelvis, then advantageously allowing to maintain the upper part of the digestive system raised above its abdomen, always in order to avoid any risk of gastric reflux or regurgitation.
• the presence of a V3 flap of large size, and in particular with a dorsal base of a width similar to the portion of the harness that holds the pelvis makes it possible to operate the above elevation of the upper part of the infant's body while maintaining a good level of comfort and support.
• the shutters V1, V2 and V3 each extend to the associated edge of the mattress element MA, which promotes rapid positioning and limits the complexity of the fastening elements F positioned at the outer end of the each of the flaps V1, V2 and V3.
• fast fastening elements F are assembled at the ends of the flaps, for example by a seam, and allow easy attachment of the harness H to the mechanical bed structure L, especially when the bed structure comprises a plurality of vertical bars.
• the fastening elements F consist of fast plastic carabiners fixed directly on the shutters V1, V2 or V3 or via a fabric element (synthetic or not) of very short length.
• the plastic carabiners are round or oblong shapes or triangular or square, as non-limiting examples, and in any case, are configured to hang quickly and with one hand to the coating structure L
• the plastic carabiners can be hooked each one with a single hand and one hand to a bar of the mechanical structure L.
• bar any elongated element, vertical or no, is configured to be surrounded by a quick coupling means, such as, for example a carabiner.
• This operation can advantageously be carried out by keeping an infant safe against himself using his arm not being solicited by the operation of setting up the maintenance system SYST.
• this type of fast plastic carabiner can be lifted as quickly as silently from the mechanical structure L, without the risk of waking a sleeping infant in another sleeping area, close to the holding system SYST .
• the fast fastening elements are small tissue loops, ideally synthetic, each fixed to the outer end of the flap associated with it, or close to this end, and comprising a male clip and a female clip adapted to surround a fastening element of the mechanical structure L, such as, for example, a bed bar, vertical or horizontal.
• a mechanical structure L comprising long elongated mechanical elements such as bars, coupled to a harness H resting on an upper surface S of a sleeping element MA and comprising at least three flaps extending towards the outside.
• the outside and towards the edges of the sleeping element MA, together with the fast and quiet fastening elements F, allows a quick and silent installation and removal of an anti-reflux and anti-choking device for infants.
• a parachute for babies according to the invention can consequently improve the many and tedious installation operations usually implemented in childcare services, such as for example in nursery or medical environment for young children.
• the harness H and the holding and positioning flaps V1, V2 and V3 are made of a material adapted to pediatrics, comprising cotton, and in a duffel and doubled fabric.
• the fabric in which the various elements of the SYST holding system are made has hydrophobic properties which improve the comfort of the infant and the longevity of the SYST system.
• the carabiner type fastening elements are attached to the shutters V1, V2 and V3 via synthetic fabric holding elements to accelerate drying in case of accidental humidification or washing.
• the carabiner type quick fastening systems are made of a stainless material or a plastic-type material resistant to many successive washings, possibly at a high temperature.
• the lower portion of the harness H which maintains the infant's pelvis comprises lateral flaps which fold on the front and which carry quick fasteners allowing easy and fast installation of the infant in the harness.
• These second fastening elements may be for example, a carabiner and a buckle, a belt clip (s) similar to those of backpacks, or a sufficient number of snaps.
• the invention does not relate to the single embodiment described above but more broadly any system for maintaining an infant or an individual in a situation of dependence on a sleeping element in a bed structure, by the intermediate of a harness comprising at least three planar holding flaps in contact with a bearing surface, and each extending in a direction proper to it to a respectively associated edge of the sleeping element and each terminating in a quick and silent fastening element adapted to a fastener on the structure.

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• 2017
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