Body-resting device

Nov. 2, 1937. μ. BALT1CH 2,097,751

BODY RESTING DEVICE Filed May 18, 1936

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INVENTOR

Michael Balticlt

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Patented Nov. 2,1937

2,097,751

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE

2,597,751 BODY-RESTING DEVICE Michael Baltich, Cold Spring, N. Y. Application May 18, 1936, Serial No. 80,298 2 Claims. (CL 5—284)

This invention relates.to improvements in connection with body-resting devices, such as a bed or a couch, as examples.

One object of this invention is to provide a body-resting device which will also serve as a body refresher or cooler (or both) at the will of a person using said device.

A second object of this invention is to provide a body-resting device, combined with means whereby the body of a person using the device may be cooled, or refreshed (or both) by air controllably diffused over the body of such person as desired.

Another object of the invention is to provide a bedstead, or a part thereof (such as a bedsteadend) having a hollow or other air-diffusing means integrally carried by or connected with said bedstead or part thereof.

Other objects of my Invention will be mentioned in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing, I have illustrated the invention as being applied to a bed of usual appearance, and constituting a structural feature of the same. Obviously, other forms or designs of beds or bedsteads may be provided with or incorporate my improvements.

Referring to said drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bedstead provided with my improvements, and also showing a controllable combination of the same with an air-pump, or fan, etc. Figure 2 is a sectional view lengthwise of an air-diffusing tube employed in the combination of Fig. 1, showing the means for fitting said tube between or otherwise connected with usual bed-posts, the tube in the illustrated example constituting a structural element of a bedend. Figure 3 is a sectional view of the lower end of a bed-post with an applied vermin trap.

The body-resting device, as shown in the drawing, may be an ordinary bedstead having posts X, a head, A, a bottom end, B, and side rails, one of which is indicated by the reference character, C. The bed is shown as having springs, D, and a mattress, E, the assemblage being the usual one.

My invention consists, broadly, in providing a bedstead, or a part thereof (a foot-element, for instance) with integral, carried or supported means for diffusing compressed or other air (preferably cool) slightly above or otherwise over and upon a person resting upon the body-resting device.

In the arrangement particularly illustrated, the means for diffusing the air not only operates for that purpose but also constitutes a structural part of a bed-end, which cdmbination of parts is a new unit of manufacture, that is to say, a bed-element (saleable as such, for use with any suitable form of bedstead) which also is a bodyrefreshener of itself alone. S

Figure 1 illustrates the use of a controllable air-diffuser consisting of a horizontally-disposed tube, or hollow rod, G, having air-directing openings or perforations H, therethrough. The tube is shown as arranged cross-wise of the footboard 10 of a bedstead near the top thereof between the upper ends of the foot-posts, X and X, the parts being so related that the line or level of the tube, O, and of the perforations, H, is above the mattress and air is discharged, from the tube through 15 the openings, in a diffused state and somewhat like a horizontal and forwardly moving sheet over and on the mattress, E, and over and upon the body of a person lying or resting upon said mattress. ‘ 20

The tube, G, is also, by preference, so set in, or carried or supported by the bed-end that it may have movement around its horizontal axis. This permits the diffused air to be discharged in any desired direction, or at any desired angle 25 over or above the mattress and a user thereof. To assure this result, as shown in Figure 2, the ends of the diffusing tube may be fitted between the upper ends of opposite bed-posts. As shown in Fig. 2 aforesaid, one end of the tube may be 30 closed by a plug, J and in a socket of a post, being yieldably held in position by the aid of a washer K and a screw-bolt, Y.

The other end of the tube, may be held to place in an opening, L, through the post, and also by 35 a valve-discharge end, M, fitting into the end of the tube.

If desired, the mere gripping action of the parts may be relied upon to hold the pipe, G, in any desired position. 40

In order to easily move the pipe, to direct the diffused air at any angle, it is merely necessary to seize the finger-piece, I, and swing the tube around its own axis.

Air may be supplied, to the diffuser, from any 45 available source. Thus, air may be compressed by a pump, S, driven by a motor, T, and belt, U, or otherwise, and by means of any suitable pipe, conduit, tube or hose, R, to the diffuser G, the line being provided—preferably at or near the ⁵⁰bed,—with a suitable valve P and handle, Q. The interior of the valve, P, may be divided, if desired, by a screen, P', through which compressed air is filtered before entering the tube G.

The compressor, or pump, may be located near ⁵⁵

2,097,751 to or remote from the bed under treatment, and, obviously, a single pump, or compressor, may be pipe-connected with any number of beds (as in the case of a hotel).

By means of the valve, as P, the user of bodyresting device may easily control or shut off the supply of air to any bed with which a diffuser is combined.

The employment of the carried tube, G, results 10 not only in diffusing air over the mattress, but also in air-conditioning the room or apartment in which the body-resting device is used, the circulating air Anally leaving through a ventilator, window, etc. If desired, the tube, G, may be 15 turned, about its axis, so as to direct the diffused air upwardly or otherwise away from the bodyresting device or from the person using the device, in which event the device may be used for air-conditioning or air circulation alone.

Obviously, the air supplied, and diffused over a bed, may be cool, warm, or at the temperature of the room.

While I have hereinbefore described a speciAc embodiment of my improvements, and have illus25 trated the same as being combined with a bedstead, it will be obvious to all that any of the new features, or combinations, or relative arrangements, described or shown may be embodied in or employed with any bedstead, or any other 30 useful form of body-resting devices, such as a couch, or an arm-chair.

For sanitary reasons, the legs of the bed may be fftted with vermin-traps, as in Figure 3. The

Illustrated form comprises a reservoir, W, and discharge spigot controlled by a valve, W'.