Flexible Patents (Class 5/427)
  • Patent number: 4783864
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for producing subconscious integumental reflex action to keep children away from a guard rail while sleeping on a bunk bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Inventor: Ronald L. Turner
  • Patent number: 4370765
    Abstract: An envelope for a bed with side rails, comprised of an enveloping portion for enveloping the side rails, and a flap positionable between a mattress and mattress support and securable to the latter, to maintain the mattress in bed alignment and close off any gap between a side rail and the mattress or mattress support, and thereby prevent injury to a bed occupant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 1, 1983
    Inventor: Gloria C. Webber
  • Patent number: 4232415
    Abstract: A mattress sling for a bed with side rails, comprised of a base portion to be positioned between a mattress and mattress support, and two spaced, opposed side portions made of a meshed material having releasable securing means for securing each side sheet to a side rail vertically removed from the mattress, to prevent injury to bed occupants by maintaining the mattress in bed alignment and closing off any gap between a side rail and the mattress or mattress support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1980
    Inventor: Gloria C. Webber
  • Patent number: 4186457
    Abstract: In a pediatric water mattress, of the type for use for therapeutic purposes for enhancing the health attributes of an infant particularly after premature birth, the mattress incorporates a pair of inner liners that are sealed together around their perimeter to form a water holding chamber, a pair of outer liners, said outer liners being larger than the inner liners and forming a minor capacity air chamber in which the inner water chamber is located, a valve connecting through the lower outer and inner liners for providing access into the inner chamber for admission of water therein, with another valve connecting through the upper liner for providing access into the outer chamber for determining its contents, a covered guard means surrounding the mattress and being adhered coextensively with the outer periphery of the outer chamber, and an inflatable pillow formed for attachment upon the uppermost surface of the outer liner for providing comfort and therapeutic positioning of any infant resting upon the mattre
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1980
    Assignee: Aqua-Babe Corporation
    Inventor: Robert J. Amelung