INVALID BEDSTEAD
Year: 1885

page_text: ANNIE MCCONNELL 24 Dorset Gardens, Brighton, Sussex Surgical and Medical
Nurse, I do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN INVALID BEDSTEAD,
to be as follows:-
To turn a patient, in bed without touching them or giving pain-The frame of
the Turnover Bedstead is made of iron,-In the centre there is a cage, The frame
of the cage is made of wire, with narrow bands of iron-The centre of the cage is
canvass When the patient has to be turned a feather cushion is placed each side
of the patient-The upper part of the cage is then put on (There is a round space
in it cushioned, for the face) it is then turned gently over by the handles-There is
no mattress in the cage.-A stool with a water cushion is wheeled under the cage.
There is a wire tray slips up & down by weights from the head of the bedstead
for the use of the patient. The cage is the shape of a mattress only deeper.
Dated this 2nd day of November 1005

page_text: ANNIE MCCONNELL 24 Dorset Gardens, Brighton Sussex Surgical and Medical
Nurse I do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN INVALID BEDSTEAD
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and.
ascertained in and by the following statement :—
The frame of the turnover Bedstead, is made of iron-In the centere there is a
cage-The frame of cage is made of wire with narrow bands of iron-The centre
of the cage is canvass When the patient has to be turned-a long feather cushion
is placed each side of the patient-The upper part of the cage is then put on (There
is a round space in it cushioned, for the face) It is then turned gently over by the
handles There is no mattress,
To turn a patient in bed without touching them or giving pain-which is the-
great difficulty in very bad cases.-A stool with a water cushion is wheeled under
the cage.
There is a wire tray slips up & down by weights from the head of the Bedstead
for the use of the patient.
"
The turn over Bedstead, is an ordinary iron Bedstead-Suspended in the centre
is a cage, I claim protection
1st. For the cage which is suspended by a piece of iron 4 inches wide, and six
inches long the shape is half a round, both ends of cage and the same size piece of
iron in the upper part of cage at both ends-There is a piece of iron in the shape
of a horse shoe at both ends of the bedstead-When the upper part of the cage is
put on the two pieces of iron on the cage (upper & lower) form a round and drop
into the horse shoe shape iron in the centre of this frame of the bedstead boths
ends. The frame of the cage upper and lower is made of wire strengethend by
iron the center of upper and lower part of cage is made of canves, there is a stool
with a water bed on it with a hole in it and a wire cage underneath for a pan.
2nd. The cage turns over.
3rd. There is a wire tray suspended from the head of the bedstead which draws
up & down over rollers the rope of the roller bangs from the back of the bedstead
and a wheight at the end of it by which means it is drawn up and down.

page_text: Fig. 6. The upper part of the cage, with a open space cushioned for the face
The frame wire, the centre canvas.
.
Fig. 7. The wire tray, which draws up and down by weights for the use of the
patient
.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that
what I claim is
1. The cage, upper and under part-the frame wire the centre canvass, the upper
part has a space in the canvass cushioned for the face-The cage turns on pivots,
in the centre of the iron frame of the Bedstead, both ends. The upper part of
cage, is put on the under part of cage before it is turned, and the frames are wire
and centre canvass.
2. The cage turning completely over on pivots, both ends in the centre of the
iron frame of the Bedstead, To the cage is suspended both ends by pivots which
rest on, and in, the centre of the iron frame of the Bedstead. Also the stool, with
water cushion, and wire box underneath for the pan, The stool can be wheeled
under the cage or wound up and down, the canvass in centre of the cage, resting on
the water cushion, after the cage has been turned-The cage can be turned
completely over by a handle at the foot of the Bedstead, or by the handles at both
sides of the cage.
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3. The wire tray, which draws up and down by weights, from the top, of the
head of the Bedstead-The. cage can be taken out of the Bedstead, and carried
about.