US895526A - Bed. - Google Patents

Description

No. 895,526. PATENTED-AUG. 11, 1908.

- G. W. WILLIAMS dz 0'. G. SELBY,

' BED.

APPLICATION FILED APB. 30,1908.

a mm GEORGE \V. WILLIAMS AND CHARLES SELBY, OF WEST MANSFIELD, OHIO.

BED.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE W. WIL- LIAMS and CHARLES G. SELBY, citizens of the United States. residing at Vest Mansfield, in

the county of Logan and State of Ohio, have awav.

invented a new and useful Bed, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to invalid bedsteads so constructed as to enable the occupant of the bed to be moved to an inclined position.

The invention has for its object to provide an improved invalid bedstead by means of which the occupant may be easily raised to and supported in any reclining position desired.

The invention consists in an invalid bedstead, and in details thereof, constructed and arranged as hereinafter described and claimed- Referring to the drawings :Figure 1 is a view in perspective of an invalid bedstead constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a detail view of a portion of the end of the bed stead with parts broken Fig. 3 is anenlarged detail view of a portion of the adjustable reclining device.

1 indicates thebedstead having a frame work consisting of a foot board 2, and head board 3 connected together b the side boards 4, and provided with rockers 5, pivoted to suitable supports 6. In .order to hold the bed irame in position, and to ermit of its adjustment to different inclined positions a suitable device is provided, and as here shown. consisting of a curved bar 7 mounted on one of the sup orts 6, and projecting through a guide or 'eeper 8, on the head board 3. The bar 7 has a number of notches 9 with which a pawl 10, pivoted to the headboard 3 is adapted to engage, the pawl 10. having an operating arm 11 roet-ting from the headboard 3 The paw 10 is held in engagement with one of the notches 9, by means of a spring 12 secured to headboard 3, and bearing against the pawl 10. It will be seen that by releasing the pawl 10, from engagement with the bar 7, and holding it out of engagement with the notches 9, the bed frame may be. rocked 0n the supports 6, and tipped to any inclined position thereby enabling the occupant of the bed to be turned over in one direction or another according as the bed may be tipped. By means of the notched bar 7, and pawl 10, the bed frame may be held in any adjusted positiim.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 30, 1908. Serial No. 430,153.

In addition to the means for enabling the occupant of the bed to be turned over, a device is provided for moving the occupant of the bed to an inclined osition, and su porting the person in suei position as shown. The device consists of a head rest 13, formed with side bars or st-rhs 14, on which are mounted transverse slats 15 having their ends projecting beyond the side bars 14.

The side bars 14- are connected by means of,

hinges 16 to one of the bedstead slats 17,

which rest in the strips 18, on the side boards 4. lVhen the head rest 13 is flat, or in its lowest position the-projecting ends of the transverse slats 15 rest on the strips 18. In order to raise the head rest 13, and support it in adjusted inclined position, a suitable mechanism is provided follows. The head rest 13 has fixed to its outer end downwardly inclined supporting'aims, or rods 19, pivoted at their lower ends\' to lateral arms, or projections 20, on a dis 2 1, slidably mounted on a rod 22 extendin lengthwise of the bed frame, and through the-rockers 5, and supports 6, and serving as the pivotal supports for the rockers 5. The head rest 13 is raised and lowered; to ad'usted inclined position by means ot the following mechanism. A cord 23 is secured at one end to the disk 21, and extends to and i UNITED-STATES ATENT oar ion.

over a pulley 24, mounted on one of the rockers 5, at the foot of the bed, and from thence to a rotary shaft or roller' 25 mounted in brackets 26 on the side boards 4, at the head of the bed. The cord 23 is carried around the roller 25, with a few turns and then extends to the disk 21., where it is secured to the arms 20 by means of its branching ends 27. One of the ends of the rotar shaft 25,

projects from the sideboard 4, and ms mounted thereon a ratchet wheel 28,- operated by a. crank handle 29. A pawl 30 pivot-ed on the side board 4 engages the ratchet wheel 28 and holds it from turning baclm'ards. To raise the head rest 13, and hold it in adjusted inclined position the shaft 25 is turned by means of handle 29, which causes the cord-22 to wind up on the shaft, and draw the disk 21, on the rod 22 towards the head of the bed, the cord 23, also unwinding to )ermit the disk 21 to move forward. As the isk 21 moves forward, the arms 19, ivotally connected thereto cause the heat rest 13 to be raised to an inclined position, and when the desired inclined position is obtained, the

pawl 30 holds the ratchet wheel 28 from turning backward, and the headrest 13 is held in inclined adjusted position. By releasing -the pawl 30, from engagement with. wheel 28 the shaft maybe rotated backwards and the 0pposite movement of disk 21 on rod 22 takes place, causing the head rest 13 to be lowered.

t will thus be seen that by tipping the bed from side to side the turning of a patient in bed can be easily and readilv accomplished. The patient can be easily and readily raised and lowered to any inclined position desired, and supported therein by means of the hinged adjustable head rest.

, Having described the inventioinwe claim 1. A bedstead having a longitudinal rod mounted beneath the bed a support slidably mounted on said rod; a hinged head rest with supporting arms ivoted to said shdable support; arotar s iaft, means for operating and locking said shaft; and a traction cord, extendlng over a pulley, wound around said rotary shaft and having its ends secured to the slidable sup ort.

2. A bedstead liaving a lon itudinal rod mounted therein, a support slidably mounted on said rod, a hinged head rest, with supporting arms pivoted to said slidable'support; an operating shaft and crank with ratchet and pawl at the head of the bedstead; and a tract-ion cord connected at one end to the slidable sup )ort, extending over a pulley at the foot of the bedstead: from thence to the o crating shaft, and about the same to the shdable support to which it is connecaed), In testimony that we claim the foregozng as our own, we have hereto afiixed our signatures in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE \Y. 'ILLIAMS. CHARLES G. SELBY. Witnesses: l

Esme PENNOCK, F. M. MmsImLL.

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