Specification of Andrew Kurtz : invalid beds and couches.

  • Ball, Ancell.
Date:
1872
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Andrew Kurtz : invalid beds and couches. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    JBalVs Improvements in Invalid JBeds and Conches. the main framing of the bed with the lower mattress removed, and with the head and foot boards in horizontal section. Pigure 6 is a transverse section of the lower or main frame taken along the line 3—4 (Pigure 3), and shewing the inner surface of the head board. Pig are 7 is a similar section taken along the line 5—6, and shewing the inner surface of the 5 foot board. Pigure 8 is a longitudinal vertical section of the invalid bedstead with the mattress removed, shewing some of the various adjustments of which it is susceptible. Pigures 9 and 10 are details of the lever and spring pad (herein-after 10 referred to), for opening or closing from below the aperture formed in the lower mattress for using the bed pan. Pigure 11 (Sheet 2) is a side elevation of the bed reversed (or turned over), the facial^* mattress being below and the ‘^dorsal mattress, with its frame, above the patient. . 15 Pigure 12 is a side elevation of the bed turned half-way round, and having the top or facial ” mattress and frame so inserted as to form the reclining surface, whilst the dorsal or lower mattress is brought into a vertical position and forms the back of the couch; this position of the parts being adopted when it is required to turn the patient on to 20 his side. Pigure 13 is a longitudinal section of the top or facial mattress and frame detached. Pigure 14 is a transverse section of the same. Pigure 15 is a detached plan of the facial mattress removed from its frame. Pigure 16 is a plan of the upper surface of the frame of the top 25 or facial mattress with the mattress removed. Pigure 17 is a similar view of the under surface, and Pigures 18 and 19 represent respectively a side elevation and longitudinal horizontal section of the reversible side rest or support. A, A, are two uprights or standards of wood or metal connected 30 together below by a stretcher or tie rod B, which, for the convenience of packing, may be made removeable by being fitted into dovetailed or other sockets or connections in the standards, as is well understood ; the standards are by preference supported on castors or small wheels, having india-rubber tyres for the convenience of moving the bed without noise. 35 Near the upper end of each standard, and passing through the same.