Inflatable device for turning people on their side and back again
View Patent ↗The present invention provides a portable device for rotating bed-ridden patients from their back to their side with little or no assistance from the care provider. The device comprises of a base material, a plurality of elongated air chambers interconnected on the base material consisting of five independent air chambers configured to lie beneath the patient in a secured manner that allows the air chambers to function between the patient and a bed like supporting surface. The device rotates the patient, functions as armrest, acts as a cushion support for the patient to lie against while on their side or on their back.
1. An inflatable device for turning an object, positioned generally in the center of the device, on its side and back again comprising:
a base material having a first and second edge and a top and bottom edge and a generally longitudinal center line; and
a first side air chamber and a second side air chambers, each side air chamber having a first and second edge and a top and bottom edge, the first side air chamber is connected at its first and second edges to the base material, each on opposite sides of the center line, the second side air chamber connected at the first edge to the base material and at the second edge to the first side air chamber, the top and bottom edge of the first and second side air chamber is connected to the base material; and
a center air chamber having a first and second edge and a top and bottom edge, the first edge connected to the second side air chamber on one side of the center line to generally near the side of the object and the second edge connected to the second side air chamber on the opposite side of the center line to generally near the other side of the object, the top and bottom edge of the center air chamber is connected to the second side air chamber across both sides of the center line; and
a left end air chamber having a right edge and a left edge and a top and bottom edge, the left edge of which is connected to the base material and the right edge of which is connected to either the first side air chamber or the second side air chamber, the left end air chamber is positioned generally from about the left edge of the base material to generally the left side of the object, the top and bottom edge of the left end air chamber is connected to the base material; and
a right end air chamber having a right edge and a left edge and a top and bottom edge, the right edge of which is connected to the base material and the left edge of which is connected to either the first side air chamber or the second side air chamber, the right end air chamber is positioned generally from about the right edge of the base material to generally the right side of the object, the top and bottom edge of the right end air chamber is connected to the base material.