US3571828A

US3571828A - Foot rest device

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Publication number: US3571828A
Application number: US759726A
Authority: US
Inventors: Delton E Bergsgaard; Palmer E Berger
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1968-09-13
Filing date: 1968-09-13
Publication date: 1971-03-23
Anticipated expiration: 1988-03-23

Abstract

The invention comprises a foot rest having a rectangular plate serving as a foot support mounted upright to the edge of a hospital bed spring frame, a U-shaped rope slideably mounted in said plate and adapted to be slid upwardly and forwardly to serve as a blanket support, an adjustable foot support member adapted to be collapsed against said rectangular plate when not in use and adapted to be expanded to serve as a foot support spaced forward from said rectangular plate.

Description

United States atent [72] Inventors Delton E. Bergsgaard 423 Euclid Ave; Palmer 13. Berger, 1716 12th Ave, North, Grand Forks, N. Dak. 58201 [211 App]. No. 759,726 [22] Filed Sept. 13, 1968 [45] Patented Mar. 23, 1971 [54] FOOT REST DEVICE 2 Claims, 9 Drawing Figs.

[52] 11.5. CI 5/327, 5/319 [51] Int. Cl A47c 21/00 [50] Field ofSearch 5/327, 319, 3 1 7 [56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,986,747 6/1961 Posey 5/327X 3,021,837 2/1962 Newell 5/327X FOREIGN PATENTS 656,322 2/1938 Germany 5/319 Primary Examiner-Francis K. Zugel Assistant Examiner-Andrew M. Calvert AttorneyRobert E. Kleve PATENTEU W23 I97l SHEET 1 OF 2 PIC-3.3. [24 [34 INVENT R3 F G Dalton E. Bergsgoor a Palmer E.Berger BY ATTORNEY IPATENTEDHARZMSYI 357L828 sum 2 0F 2 INVENTORS Dalton E. Bergsgaord 8 Palmer E. Berger ATTORNEY down to a horizontal position when not in use.

It is a further object of the invention to provide a novel footrest which can be used to support a patients foot and which can be easily stored.

it is another object of the invention to provide a novel footrest which is adjustable horizontally to different positions.

Further objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent as the description proceeds and when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings wherein:

FIG. 1 is a side elevational view of the novel bedrest invention shown operatively installed on a hospital bed.

FIG. 2 is an enlarged side elevational view of the bedrest invention.

FIG. 3 is a front elevational view of the footrest footplate FIG. 4 is an enlarged side elevational view of the detractahle, adjustable footplate of the bedrest invention.

FIG. 5 is a rear view of the adjustable footplate taken along line 3-5 of FIG. d.

FIG. 6 is a side elevational view of the footrest invention with the adjustable footplate operatively installed, and with the footrest invention mounted to a hospital bed.

FIG. 7 is a top plan view of the footrest invention with the adjustable footplate operatively installed.

FIG. 3 is a side elevational view of the footrest invention shown mounted on a hospital bed and employed a traction device.

FIG. 9 is a front elevational view of the footrest invention with the adjustable footplate detached.

Briefly stated, the invention comprises a hospital bed footrest having a footplate, said footplate has a pivotal mounted to the bed spring, a U-shaped rod which is slideably telescoped upward and forwardly for use as a blanket support, and a plate having pivoted wings which may be telescoped and attached to the footrest to adjust the area for supporting the patients feet horizontally.

Referring more particularly to the drawings in FIG. l, the footrest invention shown operatively mounted to a conventional bed spring frame 21 having an L-shaped cross section, the foot rest invention 20 has a rectangular footrest plate 22.

The rectangular footrest plate 22 has four

side flanges

23, 23', 23", and 23" which surround a rectangular plate 22' to form the footrestplate 22. The plate 22 has an elongated slot 24 which acts as a handle for receiving the fingers of the operator for carrying the footrest invention 20 from place to lace.

p The bottom flange 23" of the footrest plate 22 has a rod 24 fixed to its lower outer-end, with the outer ends 24' and 24" of the rod 24 resting in slots 50 of a pair of identical mounting flanges 25 and 25'. A pair of pins or

pegs

26 and 26 are spaced above the rod ends 24' and 24" and are also resting in slots 50 and fixed to the bottom flange 23" of the footrest plate 22.

The mounting flanges 25 and 25' each have a bolt 27 fixed thereto and projecting downward to be received and in a bore 28 in the L-shaped frame 21 of the bedspring 34, and nut 29 threaded onto bolt 27 to lock the mounting flanges to the frame 21 of the bedspring as illustrated in FIG. I, and FIGS. 2 and 3.

The footrest plate 22 is mounted to the rear of the bedspring frame 2% centrally of the width of the bed. A patient 30 when resting upon the mattress 31 of a conventional hospital bed 32 will have his feet 33 in flush contact with the plate 22 of the rest plate 22 as illustrated in FIG. 1.

A U-shaped rod 34 has a pair of

legs

34 and 34" loosely and slideably mounted in a pair of holes 35 and 35' in the top flange 23'. A crossbar 36 connects the remote laterally bent ends 37 and 37 of the

legs

35 and 35" together. The rod 3% may be slid from its position shown in FIG. 2 upwardly until the crossbar 36 abuts the inside-33 of the top flange 23' and the rod 34 may then be pivoted clockwise about the lateral ends 37 and 37' until it rests in its horizontal position as illus trated in FIG. 1.

The entire foot device 20 may be pivoted about the

mounting flanges

23 and 25 by raising the device upward by the handle 24,- thus raising the plate 22 upward and causing the rod ends 24 and 24" and pins 26 and 26' to slide upward in slots 30 until the pins 26 and 26' reach the upper edge 50 of the slots 50 at which time the plate 20 may be pivoted forward from its position shown in FIG. 2 aboutthe axis of

rod ends

24 and 24" to cause the pins 26 and 26' to slide forward and downward along the curved, cammed upper surfaces 30" of the mounting flanges to a horizontal position. Prior to raising plate 22 and pivoting the plate forward or clockwise when viewed from FIG. 2, to a horizontal position, the mattress 31 will be raised to allow the plate to swing down to a horizontal position between the upper face of the bedspring 21 and the underside of the mattress 31, whereby it may be stored when not in use.

The footrest device 20 being relatively thin and compact, will store horizontally between the mattress 3i and bedspring 21 without creating any appreciable hump in the mattress. The U-shaped rod 34 will be retracted to its stored position illustrated in FIG. 2, before the plate 22 is pivoted to its horizontal position between the mattress and spring for storage.

An adjustable footplate 39 has a main plate 40 with a pair of wing plates a1 and 41'. The

wing plates

41 and 41 each have a rod 42 fixed to their inner edges 43 and the rods d2 are pivotally mounted to the main plate 40.

When the adjustable footplate 39 is stored and not in use, it will be hooked onto the footrest plate 22' by its

hooks

43 and 43 so as to be flush with the plate 22',and be concealed or contained within the confines of the

side flanges

23, 23, 23", and 23" as illustrated in FIG. 2. The hooks 43 and 43' pass through the holes 54 on the extension plates 45 and 35' respectively and wing plates 411 and 41' respectively which align with one another when the extension 45 and 43' are retracted as viewed from FIG. 5 as shown in their retracted position in dashed lines in FIG. 7.

The hooks 43 and 43' are received in slots 44 and M of the plate 22 and are slid downwardly to their position as illustrated in FIG. 2 to lock the adjustable plate 39 to the plate 22'.

The patients feet, when the invention 20 is installed as illustrated in FIG. 2 may place his feet against the main plate d0 when the adjustable foot plate 39 is mounted in its stored position as illustratedin FIG. 2 or his feet may be placed against the plate 22' by removing the adjustable plate 39.

The adjustable plate 39 may be removed for reattachment by the hooks 43 and 43' from the slots 44 and 44' and the wing plates 41 and 41' may be pivoted out to their position illustrated in FIG. 7. A pair of extension plates 45 and are slideably mounted to the wing plates by a duel pair of slots 35 in the wing plates 41 and 41', which slideably receive enlarged heads 46 and 46' mounted to the extensions 45 and 43' so that the extensions may be slid in parallelism along the wing plates to adjust the distance between the main plate 40 and the plate 22'. The plate 22 has slots 57, the extension plates 45 and 45' each have a pair of bolts 56 with enlarged heads 56' which are received in the upper portions of the slots 57', the upper portions 57' of the slots being larger than the heads 56, and are slid downwardly in slots 57 to a narrow portion 57" which is narrower than the heads 56' and yet larger than the body 56" of the bolts to lock the

extension plates

45 and 45 to the loclting plate 22' as illustrated in FIG. 7 to mount the adjustable footplate 39 to the footrest plate 22.

When the adjustable footplate 39 has been mounted to the plate 22' and the footrest invention 20 is mounted to the bed spring frame as illustrated in FIG. 6, the plate 40 will extend over the mattress 31 toward the front of the bed and provide a footrest for shorter persons or persons who are positioned on the bed closer to the front edge 48 of the bed than illustrated in MG. l.

The wing plates and extensions as and 45' are slideably mounted to one another with a certain amount of friction drag so as to tend to maintain the wing plates and extensions in their adjusted positions when under the pressure of a patient's foot.

Also, the footrest invention may be used as a traction unit by removing the adjustable footplate 39 from the footrest 21 and a rope 50 having one end 50' attached to a patient's foot 32 as illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 9 and has its other end 50" passing through the hole 56 in the plate 22 and riding on a pulley 57. The pulley S7 is rotatively mounted to the plate 22. A weight 58 is suspended from the other end 50 of the rope 50 to place the patients foot 32 under traction.

The weight 58 will be suspended between the rear edge 59 of the bed and the footboard 60 of the bed so that a person will not accidentally bump the rod or weight when passing by the bed.

Thus it will be seen that a novel, compact footrest invention has been provided which performs a variety of functions.

It will be obvious that various changes and departures may be made to the invention without departing from the spirit and scope thereof and accordingly, it is not intended that the invention be limited to that specifically described in the specification or as illustrated in the drawings, but only as set forth in the amended claims wherein:

We claim:

l. A footrest attachment for a bedframe of a hospital bed comprising a rectangular frame, mounting means at the bottom of said frame for mounting said plate to a bedframe, an adjustable foot support panel horizontally adjustable and collapsible to a substantially flush position against said rectangular frame, said rectangular frame being pivotally mounted to said mounting means whereby said rectangular frame may be pivoted upward from a horizontal position flush against said bedframe to a vertical position for use, locking means for locking said rectangular frame in a vertical position, blanket support means retractable to a parallel, at least substantially coinciding position with the respect to said rectangular frame and projectable to a horizontal position projecting laterally from the upper edge of the rectangular frame to provide a blanket support above the foot support panel.

2. A footrest attachment for a bedframe of a hospital bed comprising a rectangular frame, mounting means at the bottom of said frame for mounting said plate to said bedframe, an adjustable foot support panel horizontally adjustable and collapsible to a substantially flush position against said rectangular frame, said rectangular frame being pivotally mounted to said mounting means whereby said frame may be pivoted upward from a horizontally flush position against said bedframe to a vertical position for use, locking means for locking said rectangular frame in a vertical position, blanket support means comprising a U-shaped rod having its apex outside of said rectangular frame and a pair of legs extending from the apex into the top of the rectangular frame and retractable into the top of said vertical frame and projectable vertically upward substantially out of said frame and thereafter pivotable forward to a horizontal position to provide a horizontal support for a blanket spaced above said post support panel, stop means for limiting theprojecting horizontal movement of the U-shaped rod out of said rectangular frame.

Claims

1. A footrest attachment for a bedframe of a hospital bed comprising a rectangular frame, mounting means at the bottom of said frame for mounting said plate to a bedframe, an adjustable foot support panel horizontally adjustable and collapsible to a substantially flush position against said rectangular frame, said rectangular frame being pivotally mounted to said mounting means whereby said rectangular frame may be pivoted upward from a horizontal position flush against said bedframe to a vertical position for use, locking means for locking said rectangular frame in a vertical position, blanket support means retractable to a parallel, at least substantially coinciding position with the respect to said rectangular frame and projectable to a horizontal position projecting laterally from the upper edge of the rectangular frame to provide a blanket support above the foot support panel.

2. A footrest Attachment for a bedframe of a hospital bed comprising a rectangular frame, mounting means at the bottom of said frame for mounting said plate to said bedframe, an adjustable foot support panel horizontally adjustable and collapsible to a substantially flush position against said rectangular frame, said rectangular frame being pivotally mounted to said mounting means whereby said frame may be pivoted upward from a horizontally flush position against said bedframe to a vertical position for use, locking means for locking said rectangular frame in a vertical position, blanket support means comprising a U-shaped rod having its apex outside of said rectangular frame and a pair of legs extending from the apex into the top of the rectangular frame and retractable into the top of said vertical frame and projectable vertically upward substantially out of said frame and thereafter pivotable forward to a horizontal position to provide a horizontal support for a blanket spaced above said post support panel, stop means for limiting the projecting horizontal movement of the U-shaped rod out of said rectangular frame.