| 摘要 |
1,057,055. Air cushions &c. NATIONAL RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. June 9, 1965 [June 22, 1964; April 12, 1965], Nos. 25759/64 and 15536/65. Heading A4M. [Also in Division B8] Apparatus for supporting a human body or part thereof by one or more cushions of pressurised gas has a housing 10 divided by bulkheads 11, 12 to provide three chambers 13, 14, 15 and a main trough member 16 is supported from bulkheads 11, 12, the upper surface of housing 10 being formed by a structure 30 comprising spaced guide rails 31 in which are slidably mounted flexible slats 32, the innermost edges of which define the edge of an aperture in the structure 30, which aperture can be shaped to resemble the human form by arrangement of the slats. A pad on bulkhead 11 supports the neck and a pad on bulkhead 12 supports the knees, and compressed air or other gas fed to the housing escapes through the said aperture to support the remainder of the body. |
