Abstract: A general purpose, safety belt for restraining bed patients against falling out of bed. The belt confines a patient to an arc of relatively free rolling movement within limits of a 90.degree. roll in each direction. A pair of laterally offset, securing straps attach to the bedsides and surround the patient. A pair of upper and lower, central, cross straps transvesely intersect and are sewn at their ends to a central portion of the securing straps. A soft pad is attached above the crossed straps, quick release buckles facilitate convenient but secure attachment to the bed and a locked or more difficult to release buckle secures the belt about the patient.

Abstract: An ankle hitch for securing a human foot in attachment to a traction mechanism. The ankle hitch has a first relatively longer, flexible strap having a ring fastener secured at each of its opposite ends. A pair of relatively shorter heel straps are each secured at one end to the central portion of the first strap, extend at opposite 70.degree. angles from the first strap and each has a ring fastener secured at its opposite end. A foam layer is detachably fastened to the straps for interposition between the straps and the foot. The straps have an effective length which permits the first strap to be wrapped forwardly around the ankle of the foot, crossed upon the instep of the foot and extend downwardly beyond the bottom of the foot and the heel straps to extend downwardly and forwardly so that all four of the ring fasteners are brought together beneath the foot and in substantial alignment with the longitudinal axis of the leg.

Abstract: A sheet of flexible material is folded and seamed into a contour mattress cover which lies flat for storage and may be formed as a continuous ribbon of detachable, end to end connected covers wound into a roll or may be individually interleafed in a pop up arrangement in a box or other dispenser. A flexible sheet comprising a fluid impervious, thermoplastic foundation layer laminated to an absorbent layer has its relatively longer opposite sides folded back onto its non-absorbent surface to form inwardly opening pockets. Longitudinally spaced, heat sealed, transverse seams, which are shaped to correspond to the opposite ends of the mattress, connect interfacing layers of the folded sheet for closing the ends of the pockets.