Patent ID: 6224027
Filing Date: 2001-05-01
Classification: A61M

Abstract:
A telescoping, flexible, oxygen support stand for supporting a medical oxygen supply tube to a patient in an entanglement free manner, said stand comprised of:a portable weighted base, said portable weighted base of a generally disc-shaped configuration;a plurality of wheel assemblies, said plurality of wheel assemblies mounted underneath said portable weighted base;a first vertical member, said first vertical member of a generally linearly elongated tubular configuration, and having a first end and a second end, and mounted on said first end centrally on an upper surface of said base in a perpendicular fashion;a second vertical member, said second vertical member being of a generally linearly elongated tubular configuration, and having a first end and a second end, and wherein an inner diameter of said first vertical member is slightly larger than an outer diameter of said second vertical member so that the first end of said second vertical member may be disposed within said second end of said first vertical member and communicate telescopingly therein in a semi-interference frictional arrangement;a sealing ring, said sealing ring fitted over a joint between said first vertical member and said second vertical member;a pivoting means, said pivoting means joined at the second end of said second vertical member;a flexible telescoping shaft assembly, said flexible telescoping shaft assembly having an anterior end and a posterior end and attached to said pivoting means at said anterior end and extending outwardly terminating at said posterior end; andan oxygen supply tube retaining hook, said oxygen supply tube retaining hook being of a semi-spiral design, and attached to said posterior end of said flexible telescoping shaft assembly, whereby said oxygen supply tube must be threaded around at least two spiral sections before entering a semi-enclosed section which bends in a ninety degree turn downward, and wherein said supply tube retaining hook can receive and releasably hold an adequate length of a flexible, corrugated oxygen supply tube in an entanglement free manner.