Abstract: A dropside crib that can be set up and taken down without tools, the crib including a lengthwise stabilizer bar for the dropside side thereof, the stabilizer bar having a pair of vertically aligned spaced hooks at each end, the hooks extending toward the person operating the crib, and a pair of hook receiving slots on the corner posts of the crib in position to accept the hooks when the bar is manually correctly aligned, and having entered the hooks in the slots, the operator merely pushes down on the bar to removably secure the parts, the hooks being tapered.

Abstract: A breakaway hanger comprising a multi-slotted rod, and a separate strap of hook and loop material in adjacent slots i.e. in pairs, said straps dangling from the slotted rod and interengaged to form loops that break away when an excess weight is applied.

Abstract: Extensible support assembly for a table such as an overbed table to interconnect the top table portion and bottom stand portion thereof to change the table height, including a pair of axially overlapping upper and lower vertical support members arranged for relative axial movement therebetween, and a releasable unidirectional jamming mechanism interposed between the members having an inclined wedge surface on the upper member in opposed relation to a substantially axially extending contact surface on the lower member and forming a jamming wedge zone with the contact surface, a movable jamming roller element disposed in the jamming wedge zone, and a movable release element disposed operatively adjacent to the jamming element,such that the jamming element is movable independently of the wedge surface, contact surface and release element and is normally resiliently biased by a spring or the like independently of the release element into unidirectional jamming engagement between the wedge surface and contact surf

Abstract: Raisable safety side apparatus for one or both sides of a hospital bed comprising in each instance a corresponding side frame pivotally connected to lever means, e.g. a pair of spaced apart or parallel levers, adapted to be mounted operatively on a bed to move the side frame from a lower or inoperative position to an upper or operative position with respect to the bed, and resilient biasing means operatively interposed between the frame and the lever means to urge normally the frame to the upper position, e.g.