Adapted To Incline Mattress Or Portion Thereof Patents (Class 5/660)
  • Patent number: 5522099
    Abstract: A wash water draining device for washing patients in bed has a mattress base, which is formed, for example, by inflatable chambers and is disposed underneath a waterproof bed mattress and slopes the bed mattress from the sides to the center and from the head end to the foot end. A waterproof mattress pad is placed over the mattress and a mattress compressing device is attached centrally to the foot end of the mattress such that a drainage socket of the waterproof mattress pad can be embedded into the resulting and stabilized depression of the bed mattress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1996
    Inventor: Dieter Heier
  • Patent number: 5205005
    Abstract: A bed elevating apparatus comprising an elevation frame having a first end and a second end, an upper surface and a lower surface wherein the lower surface is supportable on a bed frame with the first end of the elevation frame being disposed near a first end of the bed frame and the second end of the elevation frame being disposed near a second end of the bed frame. The elevation frame is triangularly shaped in a side elevation and has a first height extending between the upper and the lower surfaces adjacent the first end of the elevation frame and a second height extending between the upper surface and the lower surface of the elevation frame adjacent the second end of the elevation frame with the first height being larger than the second height.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Inventors: Thomas H. Merrill, Debra L. Merrill