PROPHYLACTIC UPHOLSTERED FURNITURE Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: specific medicine furniture. SUBSTANCE: bed has rollers arranged below mattress in contact with it. Rollers are loosely mounted on shafts of closed conveyor for constant or periodic motion in forward or backward direction or only in one direction in accordance with predetermined program. Mattress is connected with bed carcass through tightening adjustable device. Bed is provided with vibratory mechanism, which is kinematically connected with conveyor. Movement of rollers and low-frequency vibrations of rollers initiate wave running force acting upon body of a patient to provide body massage and micromassage of blood capillaries and as a result to facilitate enhanced blood circulation due to forced motion of blood through blood vessels and improved air exchange in lungs. EFFECT: increased efficiency by elimination of development of decubitus in the body, of immobile patient. 2 cl, 5 dwg