Beds inventions 07/07

20070169264 - Bed covering: A bed covering (10) which includes an air permeable section (13) that can be selectively covered by a cover section (20). The cover section (20) can be rolled up (in whole or in part) to allow ventilation to take place through the air permeable section (13). The cover section (20)... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070169265 - Method and apparatus for patient loading and unloading: A method and apparatus of a positioning system are described to position an upper-half of a body relative to a head-end of a couch. The positioning system may be a patient positioning system and may include a treatment couch, a leg rest coupled to the treatment couch, and a drive... Agent: Accuray/blakely

20070169266 - Articulating bed: An articulated bed has a stationary frame and a plurality of mattress support sections defining a mattress support area, the support sections including: a left section, a right section, a head section and a foot section. The left and right sections are hingably interleaved so that by raising either one,... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070169267 - Multi-position support apparatus featuring a movable foot support: A bed featuring a movable foot support. When the user wishes to stand up from lying down or sitting, the movable foot support moves toward the head of the bed. When the user is brought into a standing position, the movable foot support starts to come down so that the... Agent: Active Knowledge Ltd.

20070169268 - Hospital bed: A patient bed includes a base, a patent support supported by the base, and a control system. The patient support includes a pivotal head-end section, with the control system including an actuator to pivot the head-end section and being adapted to control the speed of the actuator and, further, to... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn And Burkhart, LLP

20070169269 - Ambulance cot with improved drop frame: A multiple level elevating cot adapted to be rolled into emergency vehicles, the cot having a wheeled undercarriage supporting a cot frame having a leading end and a trailing end, and adapted to selectively secure the cot frame in a plurality of elevational positions. The cot frame includes an improved... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP One Dayton Center

20070169270 - Retractable bed mechanism: A retractable bed mechanism is disclosed. The bed mechanism comprises a sitting pad, a sitting back, a leg seat and a base seat interconnected by a plurality of linking rods and two driving means. The driving means drives the linking rods so as to drive the sitting pad, the sitting... Agent: Cheng-wei Chai 235 Chung - Ho

20070169271 - Hospital bed and mattress having a retractable foot section: A patient support is disclosed having an adjustable length deck and a mattress positionable on the deck. The mattress includes a foot portion having an adjustable length.... Agent: Bose Mckinney & Evans LLP James Coles

20070169272 - Multi-functional inflatable bed: An inflatable bed includes an inflatable bed body having a top layer, a bottom layer, and an annular surrounding layer interconnecting the top and bottom layers and cooperating with the top and bottom layers to define an inflatable space. The surrounding layer is formed with an accommodating groove unit. An... Agent: Peters, Verny, Jones, Schmitt & Aston LLP

20070169274 - Inflatable reinforcing chamber: An inflatable mattress. The inflatable mattress comprises a support system having upper and lower inflatable support chambers arranged in a substantially vertical manner. Each inflatable support chamber comprises a top layer and a bottom layer. The inflatable mattress further comprises an inflatable reinforcing chamber disposed between the upper and lower... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070169275 - Innerspring coils and innersprings with non-helical segments: Innerspring coils for innersprings for mattresses and other reflexive support structures, have generally helical coil bodies and at least one non-helical segment or step which extends between one or both axial ends of the coil body and one or both of the coil ends. The step or steps may be... Agent: Roetzel & Andress

20070169276 - Mattress with improved edge support: A mattress is provided comprising a plurality of inner coil springs and an edge support. The edge support comprises a foam border extending along the outer perimeter of the mattress and around the inner coil springs, a plurality of spaced slits inserted into the foam border, and a plurality of... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

20070169277 - Over-bed support structure: A structure positioned over a bed and able to support up to 200 pounds, which allows persons involved in sexual intercourse to position their bodies in ways that may be more comfortable, or more pleasurable, if one of the participants is able to support some or all of their weight... Agent: Maccord Mason PLLC

20070163041 - Joint structure for collapsible play yard: A joint structure for a collapsible play yard suitable for infants or pets, which is pivotally connected between a pair of upper rails of a foldable fame. The pair of tipper rails can either be locked precisely in alignment or be released and folded in a parallel arrangement. Therefore, the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070163042 - Articles of stabilized fibrous construction material: Felted fibrous construction materials and articles formed therefrom. The felted fibrous construction material is adapted to provide adequate strength to permit construction of three dimensional structures by use of standard joining techniques such as screws, nails, glue and the like. Panels of the felted fibrous construction material also provide substantial... Agent: James M. Robertson J.m. RobertsonIPServices, LLC

20070163043 - Hospital bed: A patient bed includes a base, a patient support, and an elevation mechanism for raising or lowering the patient support relative to the base. The elevation mechanism comprises a first pair of arms and a second pair of arms, with both the pairs of arms mounted relative to the patient... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn And Burkhart, LLP

20070163044 - Ambulance cot with kickstand: An ambulance cot comprising a kickstand having a lowered position and a raised position is disclosed.... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP One Dayton Centre

20070163045 - Patient handling device including local status indication, one-touch fowler angle adjustment, and power-on alarm configuration: A patient handling device includes a controller, with a plurality of sensors, control panels, and lamps electrically connected to the controller. The patient handling device records the normal/desired state of the various components when power is applied. When one of the components goes outside the normal/desired state, the controller issues... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn And Burkhart, LLP

20070163046 - Articulated bed: A bed arrangement (10) has an articulated mattress support (30), a support frame (40) for the articulated mattress support, and a power assembly (50) for raising and lowering flexible sections (30b, 30c, 30d) of the articulated mattress support. The support frame (40) is adjustably mounted in a stationary outer frame... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070163047 - Emergency worker rescue apparatus: A rescue device which attaches to the frame of a self-contained breathing apparatus carried on the back of emergency workers such as firemen, hazardous-waste cleanup crews, and other individuals entering into hostile environments. The rescue device is adapted to connect to the frame of existing self-contained breathing apparatus frames or... Agent: Hughes Law Firm, PLLC

20070163048 - Method and device for pressure offloading: The present invention is a method and device for pressure offloading in order to alleviate or diminish pressure on an area of bony prominence, a blemish, wound, decubitus ulcer (also known as pressure ulcer or pressure sore) or surgical site by elevating the affected area above a surface without directly... Agent: Jacqueline Tadros, P.A.

20070163049 - Compression head pillows and neck angle adjustment mechanism for refractive laser surgery and the like: Improved devices, systems, and methods support and/or restrain a head of a patient, optionally for use in refractive surgery. Both the height of the patient's head and the angle of the patient's neck along the medial-lateral plane of the patient can be established independently, and compression pillow systems can gently... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070163050 - Inflatable knee pillow having thin profile and foldability when deflated: In some embodiments, an inflatable knee pillow including a body having an outer fabric surface, and an inflation valve, wherein the body defines straps (preferably two pairs of straps) and encloses a bladder (an inflatable volume), and the inflation valve is in fluid communication with the bladder. When deflated, the... Agent: Alfred A. Equitz Girard & Equitz LLP

20070163051 - Infant wedge sleep positioner: An infant wedge sleep positioner comprising a cushion, a covering means for the cushion, one supporting pillow that is fixedly secured to the covering means, and another opposed supporting pillow that is releaseably secured to the covering means for laterally moving this pillow in relation to the other pillow. This... Agent: Knechtel, Demeur & Samlan

20070163052 - Patient support: A patient support including a spacing structure and a base portion.... Agent: Bose Mckinney & Evans LLP James Coles

20070163053 - inflatable cushion cell with diagonal seal structure: An inflatable cushion cell has first and second inflatable compartments. Each inflatable compartment is defined by at least one diagonal seal structure. In addition, each inflatable compartment also has at least one fluid opening. In one embodiment the diagonal seal structure is offset from opposite corners of the inflatable cushion... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20070157379 - Playpen: A playpen includes four posts, four rails installed between the posts, at least two stems attached to one of the rails and at least two positioning devices each attached to one of the posts for cooperating with the stems for movably installing the rail on the posts. Each of the... Agent: Kamrath & Associates P.A.

20070157380 - Baby diaper changing station: A baby diaper changing station includes a base configured for being mounted to a wall surface and a support platform rotatably mounted to the base to move between a closed and open position. The support platform includes a molded three-dimensional body with top, bottom and side surfaces. A metal cladding... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070157381 - T-shaped side rail for bed frame: A bed frame comprising T shaped side rails provide support for a box spring and mattress. A leg assembly is affixed to the bed frame and is affixed to the side rail and to the cross rails for better strength of connection. The use of T-shaped side rails provides more... Agent: Klauber & Jackson

20070157382 - Roll-up blanket with straps and method of use: A rectangular flexible fabric sheet has mounted comer holders. A horizontally oriented support is engaged with the comer holders for securing the sheet so as to enable a person to recline on the sheet. A pillow having a circular fabric outer cover is positioned at one end of the sheet.... Agent: Patent Law & Venture Group

20070157383 - Bedclothes adaptable to individual preferences: An item of bedclothes to be used on a bed shared by two sleepers consists of two substantially equal halves, each associated with one of the sleepers, each made of material dissimilar from the other. The item may be procured and positioned so that each sleeper achieves her preference of... Agent: Gerald J. Cechony

20070157384 - Infant's safety bedding to reduce sids: An infant's bedding article that reduces the occurrence of SIDS, where the article has a fitted sheet for a mattress and a partially fitted covering that is connected to the fitted sheet. The partially fitted covering has an infant size covering panel with an opening top edge, a fitted bottom... Agent: Clements Walker

20070157385 - Hospital bed: A patient bed includes a patient support, a base, and an electrical control system. The patient support is mounted relative to said base, which has a plurality of bearing members for moving the base and the patient support across a surface. Each of the bearing members includes a brake operatively... Agent: Van Dyke, Gardner, Linn And Burkhart, LLP

20070157386 - Stowing birthing bed foot section: A patient-support apparatus includes receivers for supporting a patient-support deck. The patient-support deck is configured to engage the receivers to support the deck in a cantilevered configuration. The patient-support deck may be secured to the patient-support apparatus by a locking mechanism.... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20070157388 - Modular bedding system including knock down modular bed base: A modular bedding system comprises a universal knock down bed base having removable mattress supporting panels, a headrest adjustable module and a footrest adjustable module. The universal bed base may be used with the removable panels in place to support a conventional non-adjustable mattress or the removable panels may be... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070157387 - Modular bedding system including modular bed base: A module bedding system comprises a universal base having removable mattress supporting panels, a headrest adjustable module and a footrest adjustable module. The universal base may be used with the removable panels in place to support a conventional non-adjustable mattress or the removable panels may be removed and the adjustable... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070157390 - Device for providing elements for survival: A device for providing elements of survival, including two components that attached together form a sealed compartment. One side of the compartment is substantially flat to enable the transportation of persons or materials, and has a number of handles to facilitate transportation.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070157389 - Mobile stretcher: Mobile stretcher comprising a bed face on a frame provided with a head-end and a foot-end, the foot-end being provided with a fixedly arranged rack, which carries at least one medical instrument, the rack being formed so that the medical instrument carried by the rack is located midwise above the... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070157391 - Therapeutic cushion: A facial support cushion for supporting the face of a person lying in a prone position, wherein the cushion is an annular, generally torus shaped body having a hollow interior with a plurality of generally radially extending partitions extending across the interior of the body, dividing it into a plurality... Agent: Dennis H. Lambert & Associates

20070157393 - Adjustable recliner bed: An adjustable reclining infant bed apparatus having a head base with at least one elevating wedge attachable on a center side surface of the foot base is shown. The elevating wedge operates to elevate the head base at an angle. A foot base is shown comprising a lower body support... Agent: Randy J Gerlach

20070157392 - Baby support wrap system: A baby support system directed to providing improved support for a baby, particularly for its head, neck and back, while being held and carried. The baby support system includes two support features, and a security feature. The first support feature is a wrap member adjacent to the second support feature... Agent: James C Weseman Law Offices Of James C Weseman

20070151023 - Seating unit convertible to bed: A seating unit convertible into a bed includes: a base configured to rest on an underlying surface; a rear support pivotally interconnected with the base; a backrest having a backrest cushion; a seat having a seat cushion; a seat carriage; and a folding mechanism attached to the rear support, backrest... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20070151025 - Hospital bed apparatus for turning and repositioning plus shifting a patient to another bed: A hospital bed apparatus includes a supporting frame, a lifting mechanism, and a horizontally moving mechanism; the lifting mechanism includes two horizontal rods on two sides of a hospital bed, and a sheet is disposed between and connected to the horizontal rods; either one of the horizontal rods can be... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070151026 - Modular foundation assembly for beds: A modular bed frame has ladder-like side frames with upper and lower side rails, and ladder-like end frames with upper and lower rails. The side and end frames telescopingly attach to the ends of upper and lower rounded corner rails. The insides of the side frames carry tubular upright fittings... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070151027 - Hospital bed: A patient support (10) is provided for supporting a patient. Patient support (10) includes a frame (12), a deck (16), a mattress (18) and siderails (24 and 26).... Agent: Bose Mckinney & Evans LLP James Coles

20070151028 - Fitted bed top coverings: The present invention is directed generally to bed coverings for a mattress and, more particularly, to a fitted (or semi-fitted) top sheet that may be attached at one end to the mattress and which may be placed between a user and other bedding such as blankets, quilts, comforters, or the... Agent: Gordon G. Waggett, P.C.

20070151029 - Nonwoven blanket with a heating element: A limited use or disposable nonwoven blanket including at least one spunlace layer having an inner surface and outer surface and at least one continuous filament layer having an inner surface and outer surface, wherein the outer surface of the continuous filament layer is metallized. The limited use or disposable... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20070151030 - Bed covers: A bed cover (12) comprising an envelope (13) made of a textile fabric for receiving a filling material. The envelope (13) has a generally rectangular shaped portion (14) for covering a bed, and a projection (15) that extends beyond one edge of the rectangular portion (14) defining a pocket for... Agent: Fleit Kain Gibbons Gutman Bongini & Bianco

20070151031 - Elongated angular multiple position body pillow: An elongated angular multiple position body pillow embodying an enlarged center section having a curved top portion and a substantially straight base, two arms extending longitudinally from the center section and at an adjustable angle thereto, the terminal ends of each arm being provided with one half of a fabric... Agent: Mary M Lee, P.C.

20070151032 - Bed hand rails: These bed hand rails are for use with rotatable hand grip rails on a bed. The rails comprise an arrangement of rails forming the hand grip rails, wherein the hand grip rails form an annular space; and a rigid or semi-rigid, perforated metallic cover is attached to the hand grip... Agent: Emch, Schaffer, Schaub & Porcello Co

20070151033 - Patient support surface: A support surface (10)is disclosed which includes a foam perimeter (18), a truncated-triangular shaped core (19), a foam topper (21), and a coverlet (22). The foam perimeter includes an interior well (25) defined by a floor (26), a top surface (27), and at least two diverging side walls (28). The... Agent: Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz

20070151034 - Bed construction with reduced sagging: A bed construction having a one-sided mattress assembly supported on a rigid foundation. The one-sided mattress assembly includes a core of pocketed coil springs having a layer of resiliently compressible material covering the upper surface thereof and having a bottom surface constructed of a substantially rigid material without a compressible... Agent: Fish & NeaveIPGroup Ropes & Gray LLP