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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 05, 1999
Jason C. Brooke, Mount Pleasant, SC (US);
Michael J. Mutka, North Charleston, SC (US);
William S. Larisey, Jr., Summerville, SC (US);
Reza Hakamiun, Charleston, SC (US);
James F. Thomas, Mount Pleasant, SC (US);
Kendall O. Shows, Summerville, SC (US);
Hill-Rom, Inc., Batesville, IN (US);
Abstract
A bed includes a base frame, a bed deck above the base frame, and an intermediate frame carrying the bed deck. The intermediate frame is mounted to the base frame for movement relative to the base frame between a raised position spaced apart above the base frame and a lowered position below the raised position. The bed also includes a side rail mounted to the intermediate frame and extending generally upwardly therefrom to a top of the side rail, a drive assembly coupling the intermediate frame to the base frame, and control buttons mounted on the side rail and coupled to the drive assembly so that activation of the control buttons activates the drive assembly. The drive assembly moves the intermediate frame between the raised position and the lowered position when the drive assembly is activated. The control buttons include resident control buttons facing toward the bed deck and caregiver control buttons facing away from the bed deck. The resident control buttons are spaced apart from the top by a first distance and the caregiver control buttons being spaced apart from the top by a second distance that is greater than the first distance.