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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 1999
Filed:
Apr. 04, 1997
David Rork Swisher, St. Charles, MO (US);
Robert Walsh, St. Peters, MO (US);
Eugene E Weilbacher, Ellisville, MO (US);
Jacky Yam, St. Louis, MO (US);
Tyco Group S.a.r.l., Luxembourg, LU;
Abstract
A footstand for stabilizing a body of a medical device against being overturned. The body may especially be a chest drainage unit (CDU) designed and configured to receive and collect fluids from a medical patient. The invention comprises at least one stand coupled to the body and adapted for deployment to a position for stabilizing the body against upset. The CDU body is a generally upstanding rectangular box having a pair of depending feet, one foot on each side of the body. The stand, is rotatably connected to the bottom of the CDU body and is provided with a height adjustment feature which allows the stand to be rotated between a first undeployed position wherein the stand covers or encloses the depending fee of the CDU body while providing a relatively smooth and continuous bottom stand surface to a second deployed position wherein the bottom stand surface is at the same height or in the same horizontal plane as the bottom of the depending feet of the CDU body to provide a solid and secure footstand for the CDU body. It is desirable to provide a footstand for a CDU which provides a smooth contoured surface for the CDU bottom when the footstand is in its first undeployed position so that the CDU bottom will not puncture the sterile package during transportation of the CDU to an end user or during storage of the CDU prior to use or during disposal of the CDU after use in a hazardous disposal bag.