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Designing a Bed Table For People With Limited Mobility
lkenny105
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Hello all! I am designing a product for my Design and Technology GCSE that will be a sort of bed table for people with mobility issues such that they have a need to be seated most of the time. I now have my first basic design and a model of that (see below). If this product could apply to you, would you mind leaving me a few comments on your thoughts of it? These could include features that you like/dislike, improvements that could be made etc. Please be honest as it will really help me make the most functional product that I can! (The first photo is the view from above and the second is the view from below.)
Thank you for your time.
Thank you for your time.
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Hi @lkenny105.
A good first design,
If you could consider a couple of changes.
I designed and built a similar thing for a friend who could not use their' right arm, hand, leg, foot.
Instead of rebating for access so the table came around the person, could you not design it without a rebate but a with small wide arc on the leading side perhaps only in the middle third, so the first third is flat, the middle third is a wide convex arc, and the last third flat.
I did it this way so the hands and arms would not knock the table every time the person tried to get something off it.
And.
I made 4 separate height adjustable legs (50mm in 0,25,50mm centres) this allowed the table to be positioned tilted and flat.
It could also be moved to say a chair.
I also placed a small 10mm bead around the table to catch objects or spilt liquids.
Although this worked for my friend it may not work for others, but a couple of ideas that worked for me.
Good Luck with the projectEdited, re-edited, bits added, bits taken out spellchecked then edited again, -
chrisvanf said:Hi @lkenny105.
A good first design,
If you could consider a couple of changes.
I designed and built a similar thing for a friend who could not use their' right arm, hand, leg, foot.
Instead of rebating for access so the table came around the person, could you not design it without a rebate but a with small wide arc on the leading side perhaps only in the middle third, so the first third is flat, the middle third is a wide convex arc, and the last third flat.
I did it this way so the hands and arms would not knock the table every time the person tried to get something off it.
And.
I made 4 separate height adjustable legs (50mm in 0,25,50mm centres) this allowed the table to be positioned tilted and flat.
It could also be moved to say a chair.
I also placed a small 10mm bead around the table to catch objects or spilt liquids.
Although this worked for my friend it may not work for others, but a couple of ideas that worked for me.
Good Luck with the project
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Hi it's my first day on here ,so hope you don't think me pushy, but being a joiner by trade although retired many years now, I love to make things for my wife to make her life easier, your design is excellent the only suggestion I would make is a small upstaged around the edge of the table to stop the contents from being pushed off the table, mine has four individual legs as I found the sheets and blankets or duvet on=ften had folds in it that caused a rocking motion on my first prototype so much like yours you might think its a copy, well done
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Andrew45 said:Hi it's my first day on here ,so hope you don't think me pushy, but being a joiner by trade although retired many years now, I love to make things for my wife to make her life easier, your design is excellent the only suggestion I would make is a small upstaged around the edge of the table to stop the contents from being pushed off the table, mine has four individual legs as I found the sheets and blankets or duvet on=ften had folds in it that caused a rocking motion on my first prototype so much like yours you might think its a copy, well done
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Several of the commercially available bed trays also offer a drawer for storing small items (pen, glasses, tv remote etc) and the ability to angle part of the table top with is potentially useful to support a book or computer tablet. For example:
Jean Merrilees BSc MRCOT
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