Improvements in and relating to beds and fittings for the use of invalids and the like / [William Abbot Nason].
- Nason, William Abbot.
- Date:
- 1902
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Improvements in and relating to beds and fittings for the use of invalids and the like / [William Abbot Nason]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Improvements in and relating to Beds and Fittings for the Use of Invalids, <'kc. port for the same correspondly apertured, a plug for closing tlie aperture and means for operating tlie plug to insert and withdraw it consisting of parallel cranked shafts journalled underneath the mattress support, having the plug mounted on the crank wrists or offset portions, such wrists consisting of rods 5 adjustably secured to' the crank arms, to permit the latter to be spread and approached to adapt the structure to beds of different widths. 12. In an invalid bed, in combination with an apertured mattress and a support for the same correspondingly apertured, a p>lug for closing the aperture, and means for operating the plug1 to insert and withdraw it, consisting of parallel ]0 cranked shafts journalled underneath the mattress support ; a link connecting the wrists or offset portions, and arranged to carry the plug, such link being laterally movable on the crank wrist, and adjustable stops on the wrist to retain it as adjusted. Id Dated at Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, this 23rd day of Octo¬ ber, A.D. 1901. WILLIAM ABBOT NASON By Herbert Haddatn & Co., Agents to Applicant, 18 Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C. Redhill: Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, by Love & Malcomson, Ltd. 1902 i](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3074040x_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)