US973371A - Adjustable head and back rest. - Google Patents

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A. G. MILEY. ADJUSTABLE HEAD AND BACK REST.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 31, 1910.,

Patented Oct. 18, 1910.

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APPLICATION FILED MAY 31-, 1910.

Patented Oct. 18, 1910.

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ANNIE C. MILEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDWARD P. MCCABE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ADJUSTABLE HEAD AND BACK REST.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Got. 18, 1910.

Application filed May 31, 1910. Serial No. 564,193.

To all whom it may concern:

(Be it known that I, ANNIE C. MILEY, citizen of the United States, and residing in the city of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful. Improvements in Adjustable Head and Back Rests, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

My invention relates to the class of adjustable head-rests, used on beds, especially in hospital service, to support the head and shoulders of the person in a reclining posi- Such devices as usually constructed are not in any manner connected to the bedstead, but movable thereon, even when in use, and are commonly large and unwieldy.

The objects of my invention are to pro vide a device for the purpose stated which shall be simple, compact, inexpensive in construction, capable of being fixedly mounted, temporarily, on the "bed frame and over and on the bed; and which is capable of being supplied with a readily removable flexible backing of textile material or the like to support the head and shoulders of a reclining person.

To these ends my invention consists of the device having the characteristic features of construction and operation hereinafter described and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating my invention.-Figure l is a side elevation of the complete device. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the element thereof which is adapted to support the whole device from the bed rail. Fig. 3 is a front view of the complete device as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the detachable element of the device, which supports the removable textile pillow-support, and Fig. 5 is an elevation, in perspective, illustrating the application of the device to a bedstead and bed thereon.

Referring now to said drawings, 2, 2, 2*, indicate, by reference to its parts, the standard by which the device as a whole is removably supported from the top rail 3 of the bedstead. Said standard is composed of a pair of flat metal bars 2, 2, which are connected to each other, in parallelism, by a connecting bar or bars 2*. These bars are supplied with a series of open hooks 2 or other analogous devices on which to suspend, by its top round bar, the detachable element hereinafter described. Each of the bars 2, 2, is made only long enough to hang by its rearwardly curved top end 2 in the hook-like form, with which it is provided, and be suspended thereby on and from the bedstead rail 3, without extending downwardly far enough to contact with the mattress or other bed clothing.

The detachable element of the device, shown in perspective elevation in Fig. 4, consists of the following parts, preferably integral, made from a reasonably stiff metal rod, bent to form a pair of parallel arms 4, 4, having knobs 4*, 4 at their lower ends; said arms being bent backwardly for a short distance at their upper ends to form the parts 4 4 which are connected, by the cross arm 4*, thus forming a hook-like portion adapted to engage a pair of the open hooks 2 of the element 2, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 5.

A textile pillow-support, indicated at 5 in Figs. 3 and 5, is folded over and hemmed at each of its edges, as indicated at 5 5, to enable it to be used as a casing to be slipped on the rods 4, 4, it being pulled up thereon, and partly over the arms 4", 4 as shown in Figs. 1 and 5, to maintain it firmly in position thereon. The result is, because of the lower ends of arm 4, 4, being disconnected with each other, the textile pillow support (which may be used without a pillow if desired) is readily applied to or removed from the frame 4, 4, to be washed, renewed, or otherwise; and at same time said textile pillow-support has suflicient flexibility to serve the purpose intended, while the weight of the persons head and back resting thereon aid to keep it in fixed position on the frame.

The knobs 4 at the lower end of the frame 4, 4, prevent any injury to the mattress or bed. The series of open hooks 2 on the element 2 enable the frame 4 with its textile pillow-support to be adjusted to procure any reasonable degree of inclination of the patients head and back. The detachable character of the frame 4 relatively to the supporting element 2, and of both of them relatively to the bedstead, e11- able either or both of them to be removed or replaced from the bedstead with a minimum of disturbance to the patient; my device finding its maximum of utility in hospital service.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A head and back rest comprising a standard adapted to be dependingly and detachably supported from the horizontal head rail of a bedstead, and consisting of a metal bar which is bentto form a pair of parallel legs curved rearwardly at their up per ends and integrally connected thereat by a transverse portion of the bar, a sheetholding frame comprising a pair of connected rods, and means between the standard and the frame adapted to detachably support said'standard on said frame in va rying degrees of inclination.

2. In a device of the class recited the combination with a supporting standard com.- prising a pair of parallel bars having their upper termini connected by a transverse bar and curved re-arwardly thereat to form means adapted to detachably support said standard dependingly from the horizontal head rail of a bedstead, a series of open hooks on each of said parallel bars arranged thereon to form pairs of hooks in the same horizontal planes, a sheet-holding frame adapted to be detachably supported on any oppositely-disposed pair of said open hooks, and a flexible sheet stretched on said frame.

3. A device of the class recited comprising a standard, means thereon to adapt it to be detachably supported from the rail of a bedstead, and means thereon adapted to detachably connect a frame thereto, in combination with a frame consisting of a pair of rods, disconnected at the lower ends and having their upper ends bent rearwardly and connected at their termini by a cross rod; and a flexible sheet provided with means to adapt it to be operatively applied to and removed from said frame.

4. A device of the class recited, comprising a standard adapted to be detachably supported dependingly from the rail of a bedstead and consisting of a pair of parallel upright bars curved rearwardly at their upper ends, and a connecting cross-bar; in combination with a sheet-holding frame comprising a pair of rods having terminal knobs at their lower ends and connected onlyattheir upper ends; a flexible sheet stretched on said frame; and devices on said standard coacting with detachable connecting'means on. said frame whereby the latter may be supported thereon at varying de- M grees of inclination.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my signature this 27th day of May ANNIE C. MILEY. Witnesses:

A. M. BIDDLE, R. A. DUNLAP.

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