Delivery bed

Claim 1

A delivery bed incorporating an undercarriage which supports a raisable and lowerable overlying bed structure through the agency of adjustable means, said overlying bed structure including a frame having side-pieces for supporting a seat part and a raisable back-rest, and further including a frame structure which can be slidably moved beneath the seat part and which incorporates an elongated plate-like element with side tubes intended to form a leg-support capable of being extended from its inwardly inserted position to a plurality of extended positions, characterized in that the side-pieces have mounted thereon a pair of rearwardly located support rollers and a pair of forwardly located support rollers, on which the side tubes of the leg-support are mounted for axial movement; in that the support rollers have guide flanges which guide the side tubes laterally; in that the rearward support rollers also have circular latching flanges which lie on opposite sides of the side tube in relation to respective guide flanges and roll against a guide bar firmly mounted on one side of the side tube; in that respective guide bars are provided on their bottom edge surfaces with a plurality of circle-segmental latching recesses capable of passing into latching engagement with respective latching flanges on the rearwardly located support rollers, the side tubes resting on cylindrical parts of the support rollers and the upper surfaces of the side tubes lying against support shoulders firmly connected to the side-pieces and located forwardly of the forward support rollers, such that load on the leg-support is taken-up on the rearwardly located support rollers and the support shoulders, wherewith adjustment to the position of the leg-support is effected by lifting the rearwardly located end part of the leg-support until the latching recesses release their engagement with the latching flanges and the leg-support can be displaced to a selected position, in which the latching flanges move into engagement with a further pair of latching recesses.