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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2000
Filed:
May. 28, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Paul William Chapman, Bedfordshire, GB;
Veronica Irene Fletcher, Bedfordshire, GB;
Alastair George McLeod, Rugby, GB;
Clive Russel Perry, Bedfordshire, GB;
Assignee:
Huntleigh Technology, PLC, Bedfordshire, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
5713 ; 5715 ;
Abstract
A patient support includes an alternating pressure pad having separate sets of alternately inflatable cells and at least one further inflatable cell under the pad, with a support for the head of a patient lying thereon, and a control mechanism arranged to maintain alternate inflation and deflation of the cells of the pad to deflate the cells at the head end of the pad and also to inflate the cells under the pad in order to raise the level of the chest of a patient supported on the pad.