Patent ID: 7445280

Claim:
An occupant supporting device designed to provide privacy to a nursing mother who is breast feeding a baby by covering a torso portion of the nursing mother while enabling a head of the nursing mother to still be fully exposed comprising: a frame; a body support portion connected to the frame; and a privacy partition assembly for providing privacy to a nursing mother on the body support portion, said privacy partition assembly including: a cross member mounted for movement relative to the frame between a stowed position, wherein the cross member is positioned adjacent to the frame, and an in-use position, wherein the cross member is adapted to extend directly across a torso portion of a nursing mother on the body support portion; and a screen connected to said cross member, wherein the screen is adapted to extend across the cross member in order to provide privacy to a nursing mother when the cross member is in the in-use position by extending directly across and covering only from a torso portion down, thereby shielding only a select portion of the nursing mother while still enabling a head of the nursing mother to be fully exposed above the screen.