US897434A - Bed-pan. - Google Patents

Description

No; 897,434. PATENTEDSEPT. 1.1908.

1). A. WALTZ..

BED PAN.

AI PLICATION FILED AUG. 9, 1905.

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DORA A. WALTZ, OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH.

BED-PAN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1, 1908.

Application filed August 9, 1905. Serial No. 273,374.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DORA A. VVALTZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and State of Utah, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bed-Pans, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to bed pans, and its prime object is to enable the use of the device either as a bed pan and urinal or as a douche pan without requiring any complicated adjustment or alteration of the device.

Afurther object of the invention is to facilitate the handling of the pan in applying the same to and removing it from the patient, and to construct the device so as to afford a comfortable and efficient support for the body.

Another object of the invention is to have the pan so shaped as to fit up snugly to the abdomen and thereby close the open front and top of the pan to prevent soiling of the bed coverings by splatterings from the pan, and also to render the device effective for males as well as for females.

l/Vith these and other-objects in view, the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown. in

the accompanying drawing and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion, size and minor details may be made,-

within the scope of the claims, without departing from the spirit or sacriiicing'any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a side elevation of the bed pan of the present invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the pan. Fig; 4 is a cross sectional view on the line 44 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a rear end view of the pan. Fig. 6 is an enlarged fragmentary sectional view showingthc pin and socket connection between the hood and body of the pan.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in each and every figure of the drawing.

As exhibited in the accompanying drawing, the present device includes in its general make up a base member 1 and a hood member 2, which members are capable of being separated to enable the use of the device as a douche pan and also to permit of the convenient cleansing thereof. Moreover, when the .what above the front end wall.

hood is removed the device is considerably lightened and thereby more readily handled.

The base member has a flat bottom for the stable support of the device, an upstanding front end wall 3, opposite side walls 4, and an upstanding rear end wall 5 which rises some- The front and side walls have their upper edges turned inwardly to form overhanging flanges 6, constituting a seat for the patient. As best shown in Fig. 3, it will be seen that the gen eral shape of the base member is elliptical and slightly tapered. towards its front end. The rear portions of the sides of the base member rise to the height of the rear end portion 5, and the flanges 6 follow the rise of the sides as best indicated in Fig. 4 of the drawing. A suitable loop-shaped handle 7, is provided upon the rear end wall 5 for convcnience in hanrflling the pan, especially in applying and removing the same.

The hood member 2 is open at its bottom and front only with its bottom edge rabbeted as at 8 to form a seat for the reception of the top edges of the rear end wall 5 and the eX- tended sidewalls of the base member, whereby the hood is removably supported upon the base. The rabbeted portion of the hood produces an inner pendent peripheral flange 9, which extends downwardly into the base member in close contact with the inner walls thereof so as to form a liquid tight joint. The closed top of the hood extends forwardly over the open top of the p an in. the form of a pommel adapted to 1% up close to the abdomen so as to stop the pan when it has been properly positioned for use. The sides of the hood are curved inwardly or concaved as at 10, and the upwardly extended rear side portions of the base are similarly concaved as at 11, the adjacent concaved portions merging into one another so as to form seats at opposite sides of the hood to receive the thighs of the patient and thereby avoid the unnecessary spreading of the legs, whereby the present device is rendered comfortable when in use. As theopening in the top of the base member or pan proper extends upwardly into the hood, all discharge from the user which does not drop down into the pan is caught by the hood and returned to the pan. in an efficient manner. The hood is particularly useful for male patients and may be removed when the device is employed as a urinal or douche pan for females. There is an outlet nipple 12 piercing one side of the base, to which a suitable hose is designed to be con nected for carrying off the liquid contents of the pan to prevent overflow thereof.

In addition to the rim or flange, I propose to provide a pin and socket connection be tween the base and hood members, as best shown in Fig. 6 of the drawing, wherein the pin member is designated 13, and the socket 14. By preference, the pin is carried by the bottom edge of the hood, and the socket is in the top edge of the base or body member. While only one such pin and socket connection is shown, it will of course be understood that any number of such connections may be used as experience may determine.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. A device of the character described, comprising the body portion having inturned side walls, a front wall and a rear wall which rises to a greater height, than the front wall and a hood which is open only at the front and the bottom thereof removably engaging 2. In a device of the character described,

the combination with the body having its Year portion raised and the upper edge of said portion lying in a substantially horizontal plane of a removable hood the lower edge of which registers with the upper edge of the raised body portion and interlocking members at said edges and adapted to removably hold the hood into engagement with the body, the joint between the hood and the body, being a closed one, and the rear wall of the hood lying in the plane of and forming a continuation of the rear wall of the body.

In testimony whereof I a'HiX my signature, in presence of tWo subscribing witnesses.

DORA A. WALTZ.

l/Vitnesses 1 G. F. PUTNAM,

LEILA H. HARD.

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