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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 22, 2001
Yasuo Watanabe, Shinjuku-ku, JP;
Toru Takahashi, Shinjuku-ku, JP;
Abstract
A body supporting tool for a bed includes a guide rail ( ) releasably fixed to a frame ( ) of the bed, a slide housing ( ) guided by the guide rail ( ), a turning support ( ), and an abutment plate ( ) moving forward and backward along the guide rail ( ) together with the slide housing ( ) and supporting a body of a person lying on the bed while abutting the body. When an operating handle ( ) is turned in a set direction by a set angle, the slide housing ( ) switches its states from a moving state to a fixing state, and when the handle ( ) is turned in a direction opposite to the set direction by the set angle, the slide housing ( ) switches its states from the fixing state to the moving state. As a result of this construction, a simply operable body supporting tool is provided, which can releasably be mounted on a bed easily and whose position can be adjusted conveniently, quickly, and reliably after mounted on the bed.