Pacific Scientific Instruments Company

Mellen Air Manufacturing, Inc.

Craig D Adams

A variable width bariatric bed including a frame having a modular configuration with front end, rear end and middle frame sections that are detachable from one another to facilitate storage, transport and relocation through narrow entrances. A series of electric motors carried by the frame apply pushing forces to raise a plurality of mattress support deck sections to adjust the contour of a mattress. Each of the mattress support deck sections has a pair of pull out extensions that are adapted to slide outwardly and in opposite directions from a retracted position to an extended position at which the mattress support deck sections have a relatively wide width to support a correspondingly wide (e.g. 48 inch) mattress. Such mattress includes a mattress body and a pair of (e.g. foam or air filled) mattress extensions that are releasably connected at opposite sides of the mattress body and seated upon the pair of pull out extensions of the mattress support deck sections.

Variable width bariatric modularbed

A pump establishes gas flow in a particle counter. A pair of shafts having lobes is mounted in a first housing and serves to establish a gas flow path through a second housing which defines a view volume where particles are counted by light scattering or obscuration of a beam intersecting the light flow path. The lobes of the first housing do not contact each other or the walls of the housing, thereby limiting particles to those suspended in the gas flow.

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Medford, OR, United States of America

Craig D Adams