Supports: racks – Special article – Medical implement
Patent
1998-07-17
2000-08-29
Gibson, Jr., Robert W.
Supports: racks
Special article
Medical implement
211 601, 211 8901, 211106, 248 681, A47F 700
Patent
active
061094609
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a suspension rack as defined the claims.
Prior known is a suspension rack in medical use. such as for the storage and suspension of cables and/or tubes for equipment used in patient monitoring, anesthesia, and the like. The rack includes a frame provided with fastening means for securing the frame to a substantially solid structure and with frame-connected members for the suspension of cables and/or tubes.
The handling of various cables and tubes is perceived by hospital staff as a major nuisance in terms of working with equipment and patients. The patient is often hooked up in a multitude of cables and tubes for monitoring and nursing the vital functions of a patient. The orderly management of cables and tubes is difficult in conditions, which constantly require the attachment, detachment, removal, and cleaning of cables and/or tubes.
When solving such problems, it is necessary to find ways and means for the orderly management of cables during the use and non-use thereof.
A particular problem lies in the necessity of setting up the cables and tubes readily in a proper order between the using periods and during the course of and after cleaning operations. In addition, they must be readily reusable without a hazard of entanglement or confusion.
A variety of attempts have been made to solve the above problems. Various arms have been used, mainly for guiding cables and tubes from the apparatus they are connected with to the application site thereof in such a way that they do not sag in disarray on the floor to be trampled on. Such arms are often provided with a number of hinges for adjusting the position thereof and with various holders or hooks for the suspension of cables and tubes.
At least one of the problems with these solutions, in terms of the orderly management, storage, use, and cleaning of cables, is the price thereof. In addition, it is possible that cables intertwine in such equipment. The disengagement of cables from the arms and the attachment thereof is tedious. Furthermore, such solutions require special attachment points or elements suspended from the apparatus.
There are also a variety of hook solutions for the storage of cables and tubes, ranging from individual hooks to arrays of hooks, placed e.g. on the wall or under the mattress. At least the following aspects can be considered as problems in such hook solutions. The hooks can be sharp and inflict injuries. A single hook can only be accommodated with a single cable in order to maintain a good order, as several cables or tubes on top of each other may cause disarray. As for the arrys of hooks, the spools of cable or tube do not keep in a manageable order and generally require a screw fastening for attaching the same to some solid structure.
Crates and boxes, often used for storing cables and tubes, are inconvenient in occupying shelf or other space, are difficult to keep clean, and cables and tubes become entangled with each other.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
An object of the invention is to eliminate the above drawbacks.
A particular object of the invention is to introduce a suspension rack, on which the cables can be readily suspended without a hazard of entanglement.
A further object of the invention is to introduce a suspension rack, which is attractive in terms of its price, versatile, safe, easy to use, durable, reasonably compact, easy to clean and, if necessary, fastenable to a variety of locations, such as horizontal and vertical surfaces and pipes.
A suspension rack of the invention is characterized by what is set forth in claim 1.
According to the invention, the frame includes a bracket element and the implements for suspending cables and/or tubes include a cluster of adjacent spacer elements, which are connected to the bracket element and spaced from each other by a distance that exceeds the thickness of a cable and/or a tube and is less than the dimension of a terminal element, such as a connector or a sensor unit, mounted on the end of a cable and/or a tube, transverse to the lengthwis
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Herlevi Matti
Nenye Ari
Gibson , Jr. Robert W.
Instrumentarium Corporation
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