Medical stools

Abstract

Abstract A stool for medical and other purposes, the stool comprising a base with or without casters, a seat, vertical support frame or structure between the base and the underside of the seat, which may contain structure for varying the effective height thereof, body rest structure eccentrically disposed above and adjacent part of the periphery of the seat with support frame spanning and transferring load between the body rest structure and the underside of the seat and/or the vertical support structure between the underside of the seat and the base, which last-mentioned support frame may comprise structure for vertically altering the location of the body rest structure. The stool also comprises a load-bearing member such as an arm rest or a combination arm rest equipment holding platform or merely an equipment holding platform, the arm rest or platform being selectively positionable in any one of a plurality of support or work locations adjacent the body rest structure, the arm rest or equipment support being connected by an intermediate generally horizontally disposed member which is joined to the support frame and the underside of the arm rest or equipment support, respectively, by male/female tapered connectors which, when the male/female interrelationship is compressed, ready rotation at the connector is obviated whereas the opposite is true when the male/female relationship is caused to be relatively loose, the connectors accommodating ready separation of the arm rest from the intermediate member and the intermediate member from the support frame.

Inventors

• 👤 Dean H. Hale

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