Patent ID: 6503188
Filing Date: 2003-01-07
Classification: A47C,A61G,A61M

Abstract:
An apparatus for promoting personal relaxation and reducing stress in an environmentally stressful setting, such as a hospital room, for use with and in combination with a bed adapted to support a person, comprising:at least one support structure attached to the bed; said support structure attachable to a bed frame of the bed, at least one rollable visual display member being mounted within a cylindrical container, said at least one visual display member being a pictorial landscape of open spaces, interspersed with distinct spread apart elements including at least one group of trees and bodies of water, to create relaxation and to reduce stress of the person; said at least one visual display member being located so that when said rollable visual display member is unfurled from within said cylindrical container, said at least one visual display member is visible in the vicinity of the bed within the line of vision of said person in said bed.