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About the ManufacturerThe best quality nursery furniture at the best price. Founded in 1990 by Daniel Fong, DaVinci was built upon the belief that it could provide the best quality nursery furniture at the best prices. Over the years, collections, such as the Jenny Lind, have become known in the industry for being the "Best" of their kind. To this day, the quality of DaVinci's baby furniture is unmatched by its competitors and DaVinci is known for quality and safety, and value. Many of the cribs are convertible cribs that can become toddler beds and also full size beds. These 3 in 1 and 4 in 1 styles are the best value cribs for you and your baby.
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When our son outgrew the crib, but was not ready for a larger bed we opted to convert his crib into a toddler bed with the conversion kit. It was very easy to install and does what is expected to do. He has never fallen out of his bed and loves to climb in and out like a big boy. Highly recommend for the transition to toddler bed.
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Very happy with the crib. A good value with a nice look. I recommend along with other Davinci products (changer, bureau, bookcase)!
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My daughter loved it. It is such a sturdy crib and so easy to assemble. I wish I had bought it for my own home though I do like the crib and changing table for their visits.
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We just bought these for our twins that are due in August. We haven't used it yet, but we like the way it looks!
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The Jenny Lind Toddler Bed was a perfect gift for my first grand daughter. She will enjoy it for many years to come.
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So sweet, very sturdy. Bigger than expected, but that will be good when we convert to bed. Wish the hardware was white to match the finish, but I'll probably just dab on some paint. Good piece of furniture!
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Crocodile dropped off at mall
ROSEVILLE, Calif. – Don't shed any tears for a crocodile that was captured wandering outside a pet store at a Northern California shopping mall.
California Fish and Wildlife officials have taken custody of the croc, are feeding it rainbow trout and will likely donate it to a zoo.
Police say the crocodile was apparently left outside the Roseville store by someone who didn't want it anymore.
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Tennessee running back Bryce Brown asked coach Derek Dooley for a release from his scholarship specifically to transfer to Kansas State, Arthur Brown, Bryce's father, said Friday.
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But Vols coach Derek Dooley said Friday that he will not release Brown from his scholarship.
"I have a lot of respect for Bryce as a person and a player," Dooley said. "This is a professional decision, not a personal one."
Dooley said he makes decisions on who to release based on three criteria: what was the player's personal investment into the program; what harm the player's departure would cause the program; and how the player handled the situation as a person.
"I have an obligation to protect the program," said Dooley, who has released some players and declined to release others since taking over the Vols. "Bryce can still go to Kansas State but I'm not releasing him."
Arthur Brown acknowleged his son asked Dooley via a text message sent on Tuesday night, after Bryce returned from Knoxville to Wichita, Kan. Arthur Brown said he was disappointed his son did not meet with Dooley this Monday or Tuesday, as he had instructed.
But Arthur Brown said reports that Bryce has not met with Dooley recently are inaccurate.
"Bryce met with Coach Dooley on Saturday for about 30 minutes and Dooley asked him not to tell anyone they talked," Arthur Brown said. "I'm really not sure why."
Dooley acknowleged he met with Brown on Saturday but said he was not asked for a release.
Arthur Brown also said his son, one of the nation's top recruits entering last season, did not ask Dooley for a release at that meeting. This week Dooley said that the reason Bryce has not been released is because he "has not come to me, looked me in the eye and said, 'I want a release.'"
Arthur Brown said that's because he has repeatedly told Dooley since April that he has wanted his son released from his scholarship.
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Bryce Brown has been criticized for not meeting with Dooley again before leaving Knoxville. Arthur Brown said he purchased an airline ticket for Bryce to return to Knoxville this Thursday but that Dooley texted, "No need to come back out here."
Dooley said that was accurate.
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I grew up sailing the Great Egg inlet, and it can be exciting. The worst was when the CG ran the channel past the Longport rocks. So we had rocks to port and breakers to starboard. I ran aground once on a Carter 3/4 ton when I crewing as bowman. Interesting.
I asked the question because my Brother-in-Law swears that the channel is almost non-existent with only 9' feet at the GE buoy. Then he said that his depth sounder has been out for most of the season. So I question his "data" and seek something more definitive.
He did report significant shoaling in the channel between Ocean City and Somers Point. I believe that because when I sailed there in the 70's and 80's it was always filling in.
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Came through 6/4/13 at half tide with 15 knots of wind and three foot swell. I had no less than 18 feet through the inlet.
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Regular-season champion Kenny Wayne Shepherd's KWS Domination faces fourth-ranked Vinnie Paul's Team The Brickwall and second-place Matt Willig's Calabasas Clueless takes on No. 3 Zakk Wylde's Zakk Wylde Doom Crew Inc. in the two semifinal games. This week's points will count for the first half of this round, with next week being the second half.
Paul's fourth-place finish is most impressive after seemingly having the longest shot at a final-four spot among the four 6-6 teams last week. Despite being the lowest-scoring team among those four teams, in case a tiebreaker was needed, Team The Brickwall pulled ahead with a victory over Zakk Wylde Doom Crew Inc., while Jerry Cantrell's JC Aroma of Tacoma, Scott Ian's Scott Ian Mean Machine and Duff McKagan's Team McKagan D all lost.
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I was on my way to the race secretary's office when I was waylaid by the sight of crotchety Reno hosing down a high-hocked chestnut mare. He shouldn't have been there. Alice Piersall's barn had always been down the hill, closer to the track kitchen. I'd been sweating blood about running into some people, the wrong people, before I got my story straight, so I hadn't bet on having my first sparring match of the morning with that sour old man. I could've turned around, eased the corner at the next shed row, and mazed my way up the hill to where the hustlers were eking out their deals. They wouldn't care why I was back from New York without a husband or a horse to my name. But I'd had a bad moment when I parked my car, knowing I was going to endure a lot of hot eyes and tattling before I had my legs under me again. I'd pulled into Jack McClellan's reserved spot because I knew he wouldn't be up here until after the big race at Gulfstream. The hand-lettered Reserved signs hanging on the whitewashed fences didn't mean squat until the meet was open and there were races to be lost and won.
A long, bad moment. I'd stepped out of the Chevy only to feel my ribs go squish against one another like the gristle in a picked-over turkey carcass. I'd pounded them pretty good when I took the fall from our mare Sunny during her workout three days before, a stunt my husband, Eric, had planned as a gift for the creeps who'd bankrolled him into trouble. The odds on Sunny were supposed to go way up when word got out about her panicking in the gate and dumping her rider; that had been jerk Eric's plan. After being laid up with an injury, Sunny was due to run her first race in months at the end of the week. If I had any guts left by then, any meat shred of pride, I wouldn't pay attention to that race, no matter how much I loved that perfect horse. I'd forget about it. Flip right past the tout in the Racing Form and everything.
So my ribs were hurting, and my neck and thigh where Eric had punched me in some kind of speed-freak gangster desperation, and the foot which always went dead when I drove any kind of distance, a problem that went back to being stomped on by a bird-shy colt when I was still dumb enough to hotwalk horses in sneakers. I was hungry, but not the sort of hungry that waters your mouth with any idea of what to eat. I was tired too. None of these complaints was new -- except maybe the punches from Eric, which pissed me off even as they brought into my head a kind of cold, shrunk-up worry I hadn't felt before. What was new was the whittled sadness I had to swallow when I set foot on that swept pavement and took in a long, dewy breath of racecourse air. Cherry trees, budded dogwood, the low purr of a truck hauling fresh straw to the sheds. I thought it should cleanse me right then and there. Sweep away New York. Broom away Eric Ballard and the good love that was still French-braided with the bad. But it didn't. The foam bedroll stashed in the back of my car still looked like my ten-year-old bedroll. My two saddles, one uncracked helmet, cooler, duffel, lockbox, bridles, dress boots, and parka still looked like exactly what they were: hard-worn leftovers of a leftover life. I was a gypsy. Which made me no different than two-thirds of the folks working the backside of the track right that minute. It made me very different from the gal who'd left Kentucky two years before, though. The assistant trainer with a string of hotblood horses. The gleaming wife. The optimist who thought she could beat the game that beats everybody, every day, amen. I was back from the tough, year-round tracks of New York, the land of milk and big money, with nothing but lousy stories to tell and a box of stolen cash I couldn't bear to think about, much less touch.
It was a low-rent, prodigal return. No lookouts at the fancy stone gateposts. No messenger cries. I was just another saddle-sore working girl boomeranging back to where she came from.
And I run into Reno.
He was Alice Piersall's foreman and had been for a long time. I'd heard he was head man at one of the top barns in Florida when he was younger, but there'd been some kind of trouble there. He'd done piecework on the fairground circuit for a while before he fell in with Alice. He was too good for her grade of horses, and her operation was too small, but for all the years I'd known him, or known of him, it was clear that Reno was exactly where he wanted to be. There were bushels of stories about the man. How he'd been a famous child preacher in the Everglades, soloing in purple velvet and gold lame. How he'd worked in the boiling cane fields with his brothers after his voice changed and the dove-spirit of the Lord left him for the tender throat of some other dark and shining boy. How he nicked a white boss man with a knife. How he ran a big-time trainer out of his own barn, following him right into the private dining room of the clubhouse and shouting the whole way because the man was messing with a horse's stone bruise and pretending that horse was ready to run. He'd lost his job over that one. I'd ridden for Alice off and on before I left with Eric for up north. I had a few Reno stories of my own. Most of them revolved around the legend of his temper and the fact that I was the kind of person most likely to set that temper off.
Now, this minute, there was no getting past the man. He had the mare half on the grass and half on the soaked gravel of the road, his tapered back to me while he doused her joints with cold water. I took a couple of dragging steps forward.
"Watch the rogue horse," he said as the mare shook her head, then lowered it to look at me. I almost laughed. The mare was no more rogue than a puppy was, but a man like Reno -- bossy and gruff -- couldn't resist the play. He probably hoped I was a high-heeled tourist.
"She won't hurt me, will she?" I downshifted into a spoiled belle accent. "I just want to feed her some sugar like Daddy lets me do the ones back home."
He froze for maybe two ticks before his oval, close-shaved head rotated in my direction. He was careful to keep one hand under the mare's ticklish chin and the other on the red industrial hose, cooling the horse, always doing his job. His eyes didn't show anything once they focused on me -- not surprise or dislike or even one unswept grain of pleasure. I expect I looked the same to him I always had: tallish, half dirty, my hair in a muzzy yellow braid down my back. He certainly hadn't changed. He was wearing navy blue work clothes, long in the leg, short at the sleeve, mildly faded at the pressed creases. No watch. Thick-soled army surplus boots he kept polished. And that same thin rawhide strip of a belt that featured no buckle to speak of and which always failed to cover the copper tab of his fly. His face was the deep, burnished brown of fine walnut furniture, the kind my mama coveted. He had high cheekbones and a long jaw, a wide clamped mouth. I could see the whites of his eyes were bloodshot, which was not a good sign. It meant his mood was simmering.
"Found you a daddy up north, have you? Ain't that always the way." He spoke to a point off to my right, then rotated back to his business, unconcerned, like a rattler surveying the desert from his rock.
I had to hand it to him. He knew how to wrist-snap his punches. My smart-aleck talk hadn't slipped past him. Hoping we were even, I headed uphill, where I trusted Joanie, the race secretary's assistant, would pour me some free coffee. I gave Reno a half wave as I went by, a movement akin to brushing sawdust from my jeans, but I didn't look at him again.
"She want to see you."
I stopped. Waited for him to go on.
"I know you looking for work, like everybody else."
I heard him drop the hose and swing the mare around for the walk back to her stall. Her hooves chittered on the wet gravel.
"I didn't ask. Okay?" My fingers, still throbbing from the long drive, began to dig into my belt.
"Yeah, you did. She scream us both red if you don't come on."
He led the mare forward, her flanks whirling orange in the morning light, his shoulders square and head high as though he alone transmitted the grace and power of her breed. His deep ease with horses was a thing I envied.
I coiled the hose beneath the rust-collared faucet, then fell into step behind them. The sun had cleared the manicured fields of Calumet Farms and was flashing off the barracks rows of barns, glinting on drainpipes and halter buckles and toppled pails. I caught the chuckle of radios turned low, the clang of a trailer dropping its ramp. Reno talked to his mare as they slipped through a gate, tilting his head gently to the right while he cadenced a language I wouldn't have understood even if I could have heard it. Reno had his secrets?his whispered sermons to his horses was just one of them. He was also goddamned proud as hell. I thought about the uncoiled hazard of the hose, how he'd left it for me to tidy up. Catching on to what he'd done made me laugh -- my first true laugh in days -- and I considered that being bullied and enjoying it might be exactly the treatment I needed to start my life over again.
Alice Piersall was a fat woman without excuses. She'd been around horses most of her life and had gotten her trainer's license when I was still exercising hunters for rich girls busy with country club tennis and their hairless boyfriends. As far as I knew, Alice had never apologized to anybody about anything that mattered to her. She'd been born near Versailles, where her father had the gall to own a tag horse or two that he ran at Churchill Downs when he felt like it. I'd heard Alice call him a gentleman farmer, then laugh like the devil about it. He apparently operated a bunch of service stations in the central part of the state, swapped some real estate, had the expected taste for barrel-aged bourbon. In any case, she caught the bug from him. When he died, so I'd been told, he left his only daughter a small farm and enough money to breed and raise a few thoroughbreds. She'd gone hell-for-leather on her own from there.
She had a reputation on her hometown track which was well deserved. She wasn't the only woman in the state who ran a middling string of horses -- there were a few of those -- and she wasn't the only one who'd been known to vise-grip a man's balls. She just did it with lather. She loved to claim horses off trainers she considered number one assholes, and she'd put in a claim for no reason other than sheer spite. She was also known for being patient with young horses. The touts had learned to watch her. When she sent a colt out to break its maiden, it would be ready to win. And so would the shrewd money.
It was hard not to admire Alice Piersall.
After lifting two gates and sidling around a muddy corner, I saw Reno lead the mare into an empty stall in a partially occupied barn. Six horses, it looked like, with room for a half dozen more. Reno clipped some white webbing across the mare's stall, then slipped a monogrammed sheet from the rack. He'd hang a hay net, recheck the mare's stifles and cannons for heat, maybe mix up one of his foul Everglades poultices for a compress. Or he'd move on to one of the other lean and restless animals in his care. I wasn't his concern. Most people weren't.
Alice ran an organized barn. She was good to her animals, and Reno was probably better than that. But Alice wasn't super slick, so her operation didn't catch a person's eye. No brass plates on the tack room door, no matching blankets, no team windbreakers for the grooms to wear. Each owner outfitted his or her animals however they liked. If an owner wanted pink pom-poms on the mane for race day, that was fine, but Alice's own stock was usually wrapped in mismatched bandages and whatever gear she could trade for or repair. I figured the raggedy approach was Alice's way of regulating expectations -- the owners' and the competition's -- but she never admitted as much. She just insisted that decoration was foolish, even though everybody knew the racing business was more than half decoration, whether you were comparing tack rooms or bloodlines or the estimated price of the designer clothes worn by your wealthy clients.
The woman herself was sitting in a canvas-backed director's chair in the shade of the freshly raked aisle. She looked like she was asleep. In fact, with her olive green coveralls, pink goose-down vest, men's work boots, and large, lolling head she looked like she was trying to discourage attention, even as she attracted it. Vintage Alice, I thought. Always issuing a challenge.
She began talking at me before she opened her eyes. I wondered if I was giving off a smell -- some sort of Empire State stink -- the way folks were onto me before I had a chance to open my mouth.
"Have a sit down," she said, slinging a stubby arm at a bale of straw that lay near her chair.
I sat, fighting the dizziness of fatigue. Alice opened her hazel eyes as though she needed to be absolutely sure it was me, then closed them again. It was like being blinked at by a hungry owl.
"Where's that tea? You like some tea?" She took in my face once more, then my clothes, then my face again. "Bet you haven't had breakfast."
"I haven't. Tea's good."
"I bet you just pulled off the highway, driving like a bat out of hell. I bet you don't have a good penny in your pocket."
Alice had a peculiar way of injecting exactly the right kind of static into a person's blood to make it buzz. She knew how to get under your skin. "I got money. Don't think I broke any speed records getting here."
"But you're back." She shifted her weight from one drumstick thigh to the other. "The tea's herbal mint, by the way. All I got."
I nodded.
"Don't have that fella -- that what's-his-name, Ballard's kid -- with you, do you?"
I pulled my tongue back from my teeth, thinking I should fuss with her assumptions about my marriage. But I stopped myself. There wasn't much reason to quarrel about what was true.
"I heard y'all had one tolerable year up there. Good and bad horses. Good and bad runs. You must be back here because it didn't work out. Which I might have predicted." She huffed a little under her breath, her way of laughing, then put her hands on her wide knees as though she had good cards to lay on the table.
"Meet opens in three days. I can give you a few horses now, with another three or four in a week when I decide to yank them off the farm. I'd give you the whole string to ride, but I promised Red Flora I'd let this bug boy of his have a try. It's not much. And I got nowhere for you to sleep." She pushed her long, free-hanging brown hair behind her shoulder and leaned over her folded gut as well as she could. "You could do worse."
"You get right to it." I thought of the poker games I could slip into or the rides I could catch at other barns. If I decided to stay here and join the game again, I was going to need money, clean money. "I didn't ask for a job."
"You didn't, did you?" Alice slumped backward and glared into the concrete-block room at the shed's end that usually bunked hotwalkers and grooms. "I could go out there in the road and holler. Five or six Mexican boys would run right at me. But I know you. You'd take the job even if you didn't need it -- I expect you will take it -- because you love to exercise horses, even ones as sorry-assed as mine. You're hooked. Deep. You left one track for another. And I need a good hand."
I shook my head and stood, trying not to gasp at the clawing pain in my ribs. I was taller than Alice even when she was upright, so it steadied me some to look down on her flushed, smooth face, directly into the bronzy eyes that sparked with mockery or laughter, I couldn't tell which. "Hate to think you believe leaving New York has made me pitiful. I came back because things are usually good for me here. Not lucky. Just good."
"Those tracks up there don't make anybody pitiful. They're rat-ass rough, but livable. Bugs me to see you glued to the saddle, is all. I've seen it too much. That man of yours?if he's still your man?is an empty pair of shorts, just like his oil slick of a daddy. You ought to be running your own string by now, or shacked up with somebody who's got real money." She stopped and let her nostrils flare. "I don't like to watch a girl go down."
Her words smacked. I'd left the touchables of my life -- horses, furniture, husband, bills -- up in New York, but not any good part of myself. Or had I? Alice Piersall seemed to think I was missing a few hard white bones in my spine. She sat there like her brand of survival, which was mostly combat and loneliness, was the finger-slick brass ring a Kentucky girl should reach for. Sure, I'd take the horses she had -- I'd take any horses. But I hoped that didn't mean giving up on respect.
"Might be some of us are just born to be muckers." I glanced beyond her at a skitter of brown sparrows pecking in the dust. "I'll ride your horses if you need me."
She huffed again, then tossed a wink down the aisle toward where Reno was silently rolling bandages. "You'll do fine for me, Kerry. Always have. But I want to know a few things. Are you free and clear? Will that little bastard come bother you?"
I imagined Eric Ballard sauntering through these paddocks in one of his crisp seersucker suits, greeting his father's friends with their gold watches and fizzing mimosas, tossing his head in that bursting, coltlike way he had because he knew where he belonged. He'd been at his best here, where racing was as much style as business.
"Don't think so," I lied.
"You owe him money?"
"No, I got nothing of his." Which was the truth.
"All right," she said, levering herself against the arms of her chair. "I was hoping you'd robbed him blind, but we can't have everything. I'm not going to ask if he slapped you around either, because that's an old story. You come here, I'll show you the horses you can have and let you meet somebody. He's the one's supposed to be making that goddamn tea."
Alice shook the matchstick chair free of her hips and headed up the aisle in the quick, close-kneed walk that was the only pace she ever kept. She was a marvel in her way. Nosy, prone to snap judgments, marginally successful. She was also honest, and angry about it, and I could appreciate that. At five bucks a ride, which was all I could expect her to pay me, I'd need the appreciation.
The bunk room wasn't empty, just more sparsely decorated than usual. It held two camp beds -- one of them still folded shut -- a tiny portable fridge, a hot plate, and an ugly square window fan somebody had left unplugged. The unfolded camp bed was made up with a sleeping bag and some kind of yolk-colored, blotchy sheets. Leaning against the far wall near the single slot window was a man reading a book. The coils of the hot plate were a bright smoking orange. A white enamel kettle hissed with steam.
"Damn it, Danny," shouted Alice. "Quality shouldn't take so long."
Danny looked up from his thick paperback and acknowledged Alice with a tilt of his shoulders. He was average in height and build, dressed in a plain white T-shirt and jeans, his wavy, sandy-streaked hair pulled back in a ponytail. I pegged him as a groom, one of hundreds who would roll through Kentucky over the next few weeks as the horses left their winter barns in Florida and moved up the coast.
"Haven't forgotten you, boss. Might've got a little caught up in my story is all." His voice was low and plain sounding except around the vowels, which were chipped and nasal enough to prove he wasn't southern. He set his book in the windowsill and lifted the kettle above the refrigerator, where he'd laid out a small black pot and two glossy cups without handles. He filled the pot with water. A thick, leafy smell clouded the air. "I got another cup if your friend wants a taste."
"She can have yours right now." Alice put herself in front of Danny so he'd know what she said wasn't a request.
"Sure." He shrugged slowly from the elbows up. "It needs to steep. I'll bring it out."
"Good. Then you can rewrap that white-foot filly for me and check her temperature. Kerry will be riding her in the morning."
He looked at me for the first time then, sorting my freckled, windburned face from all the other faces he'd seen in the few days he'd been here. He was trying to guess where I stood in the pecking order -- whether I rode horses, shoveled their shit, or wrote them off on my tax return -- though I doubted he was the kind of man who lost much good sleep over such distinctions.
I gave him just enough smile to let him know I hadn't been completely buried by Alice. I also hoped the smile hinted that I knew herbal tea when I smelled it. Whatever he was brewing in his shiny Japanese pot was not what he claimed. Then I followed after Alice, opening my ears to her catalogued knowledge of her horses, letting my usual wonder about new people fade with the sweet, mossy scent of Danny's room.
"He says he's worked Ak-sar-ben and some tracks in California, though he's probably lying about that. Also claims he hasn't been to prison, like they all do. Knows how to handle his three head, however, which is all I care about." Alice stopped at the last occupied stall, which was outfitted with a high half door. "Danny's cute enough, which I'm sure you noticed. It's the other boy I worry about. Skinny black thing that Reno's made his project. You can imagine how that's going to go."
Reno was in earshot, of course, as he always was, and I wondered again at their long-term ability to tolerate each other. Running a barn was harder than marriage, as I knew, but Alice and Reno had pasted together almost ten long years with spit and bile. They were a flint-eyed team. Maybe it was better if you didn't have bed love for the other person. Maybe it worked if you never paused while you were stirring hot mash to lay your hand on top of your partner's. I wished I knew.
"If I don't go bust this time," said Alice, who'd been clucking her tongue into the murkiness of the stall, "this will be the reason why."
I watched as the horse inside pivoted toward daylight in that droopy, awkward way they have, rotating with the care of an elephant on a circus stool. The liver-colored head that finally swung over the gate was strong boned and big eared, with a prominent brow and a nose just long and curved enough to be called Roman. The thin white streak that began between the horse's eyes looked like a badly patched crack in a wall. His withers were narrow and very high, and though I couldn't see his legs or rump, I guessed he was a distance runner, a stayer with English or Irish blood in his scribbled veins.
Alice caught the halter and stroked the animal's muzzle. "Don't know him, do you?" And I didn't. But the brass plate on the halter set me straight. I reached up and touched his warm jaw. Twilight Flare. An older gelding with a knack for the turf. "If you didn't have your miserable head up your butt, you'd know we won a Grade Three at Turfway last week. Beat Niall Riordan's sheik horse and some other classy boys."
I looked at the sleepy-eyed gelding again. Like a lot of good ones, he didn't appear to have enough energy to carry schoolchildren across a hay field, though I knew that would change when he was pointed at the track. "You had him two years ago?"
"For a while. He finished about ninety-fifth in the Derby because Mrs. Stronheim wanted to run him there. Then I convinced her to have him cut and try him on grass. She's old and willing to believe me. We won fifty grand last year, lightly raced. This year, we turn him loose."
It wasn't unusual to see Alice proud of a horse, but it was rare to hear her speculate with any optimism. She'd grown up cagey. Most of us learned not to admit our affection for any one animal. Liking a horse didn't make it faster. Loving one, as I knew, could put a whole lot of things at risk. I shivered, thinking of Sunny, imagining how she was doing without me. Then I slid a hand down Twilight Flare's neck until I felt the slow thump of his pulse. He could run twice in the next three weeks, in top company. If he did well, the praise and offers would come across the yard like rain. I wondered how Alice would handle it.
"Reno won't want me to put you on him. Rogelio, that bug boy I mentioned, worked him at Turfway, and we'll keep it that way for now." Alice tugged at the big gelding's sparse black forelock. "I think it's the damn chicken myself."
"Likes birds, huh?" I hadn't heard any noise from the stall, but it was common for thoroughbreds to latch on to unusual companions. They were as eccentric, maybe even as superstitious, as human athletes.
"I don't know what the hell he likes. Had a damn nanny goat that lived under his feet all last year, and when it died from eating everything that was bad for it I thought I'd shoot myself. The big fellow went right off his feed. Then Reno tossed that dirty rooster in there --" Alice stopped, turned broadside in the aisle, and sputtered into a full guffaw. Her eyes got creased and wet. "This business," she roared. "It breaks me every day."
Copyright © 2000 by Alyson Hagy
A Novel
A Novel
- Simon & Schuster |
- 272 pages |
- April 2002


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N A M K C A L B S N Sept 12, 1956 D E B 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Filed Nov. 6, 1948 FIG.
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2 Sheets-Sheet 2 FIG. 4.
Filed NOV. 6; 1948 IN V EN TOR.
m i M s a w A N L m $2 s A .N m A0 MW R Patented Sept. 12, 1950 UNITED STATES OFFICE My invention relates to improvements in beds, and has particular relation to a hospital bed divided into longitudinal sectionswhich may be mechanically tilted and by means of which a patient may be turned from side to side.
Bed-ridden patients who are unable to move or assist themselves have presented serious problems in medical care. Such patients are constantly in danger of contracting fatal complications such as hypostatic pneumonia, blood clotting, gangrenous bed sores, or the like, caused by. immobility in one position for extended lengths of time. This danger has made it imperative'to assign a special nurse or attendant 3 is a front elevation of the bed shown in normal operative position, with a mattress in-- sertedthereon shown in phantom.
,Fig. 4 is a front elevation similar to- Fig. 3, the.
5 upper section being shown rotated in a clockwise m; direction, and a portion of the lower base frame being broken away for clarity of illustration.
Fig. -5.-is a fragmentary perspective view of the upper section of the bed,.. shown disassembled from the lower frame, with portions thereof, broken away to more clearly reveal the construc-.
to. change the position of the patient manually bed framedesignated generally by reference nu-.
at frequent periodic intervals, normally every two hours. Obviously, this manual method is time consuming, tedious, and physically diiiicult.
Another problem in the case of a bed-ridden patient lies in the necessity for rolling over the patient for daily general medical or nursing duties such as making up .the bed, bathing, ade ministering back care, and similar duties. The task of manually turninga patient requires an undue expenditure of. effort and exertion, especially in the case of a large or heavy patient.
\ It is. also necessary, inmany instances, to maintain a patient in a fixedposition on his side, as is often required post-operatively to facilitate vomiting after the administration of ether or other anesthetic gases, and also. after chest operations such as pneumothorax.
It is the principal object of my invention, therefore, to provide a hospital bed divided into a number of longitudinal sections, each of which may be tilted upwardly to allow the patient to be moved from side to side or rolled over. i a
, Another object of my invention is the provision of a hospital bed of the type described in which the sections may be tilted quickly and easily by hand-operable mechanical means, or, in the alternative, may be slowly and imperceptively tilted by automatic action of an electric motor.
Still another object of my invention is the provision of a hospital bed of the aforementioned type in which a patient may be conveniently maintained in a fixed position on his side.
These and other objects of my invention will.
, Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the bed of Fig. 1,
shown partially in section as alongline 2-2 of Fig, l. v
g5 angle irons l4, l4.
, preferably made of cast iron or other sturdy material,,and may becast integrally, or cast sepa iiir meral sllL-and an upper section I I mounted thereon, one side of which may be rotated upwardly.
whilethe other side ismaintained in a substantially, horizontal position.
The. lower bed frame is of simple constructio comprisinghorizontal, rectangular frame provided with-fixedupright legs l2. The horizontal frame ,,0nstructed from a pair of side angle irons, l3 and a pairof front and rear transverse The said angle irons are rately and secured together by welding, riveting or, similar means of attachment. A pair of upright bracket-members I5 are centrally located onthe front and rear transverse angle irons l4, l4 and are secured thereto, preferably by means .e s...
The remainder ,of the bed, comprising all of bed. ,Said bar 19 has an integral cylindrical rod 20 at either end thereof, which extends through the bracket members l5 on the front and rear 9; j transverse angle/irons l4, l4, and thus rotatably,
mounts said bar i9 upon the lower bed frame Ill.
The cylindrical rod 20 which extends through the bracket member IS on the rear transverse angledron l lf ex tends further into a gear box G" i which is mounted on the rear of the bed. The. free end of said rod 20 may be provided with a gearlswhich meshes with the gears within the gear boxB ormay be attached to the gears in. any otherconventional and suitable manner 'Ihe gear assembly, contained in the gearboxq' may be manually rotated in either direction by turning a handle H, or may be driven by a motor M. The motor and gear assembly may be of any well-known construction, and are not shown in detail, since the construction thereof forms no part of the present invention.
The operation of the gear assembly by means of handle H will cause bar 19 to rotate in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction, depending upon the preference of the operator. The motor M may be used instead of the handle H. Said motor is preferably electric and of the type which will automatically reverse its direction at pre-set intervals. The gear assembly connected to motor M is preferably of the reduction type, so that operation of motor M Will rotate bar l9 at a slow or almost imperceptible rate. It is obvious that in place of the preferred motor, a unidirectional motor may be conveniently employed, with the reversing of the direction of rotation of bar l9 being accomplished by a cam gear within the gear box. motor or handle, any other well k'nown means for imparting rotary motion may b'e-us'ed.
I-he lifting elements is are preferably two in number'and are laterally disposed adjacent the front and rear ends of the bed. Said lifting. elements I8 are shown in the drawings as being in the form of inverted. T-bars, this construction being preferred because of the stability and strength afforded. It is obvious, however, that the lifting elements l8 may be of any desired construction such as of fiat or cylindricalshape. In addition, any number of such. elements may be conveniently employed, or a single element may be used.
As shown in Figs. 1 and. 5, the lower surface of the lifting elements is are secured to the upper surface of the rotatable bar [9, adjacent the terminal edges thereof, and are disposed at right angles to said bar It. said lifting: elements l8 havea series of vertical cut-out slots 2 arranged in spaced relationship along the upper surface thereof. The slots 2 f enable the side frames I!, IT to be adjustably secured" to the lifting e1emerits IS, in a manner which will be presently described.
Rectangular sid'e frames ll, H are 'pivotally attached along their longitudinal edges to a pair of longitudinal angle irons 22, 22' whicliare L- shaped in cross section as shown in- Figs, 3 and 4.
The pivotal attachment may be accomplished by means of spaced hinges 23. The longitudinal angle irons 22, 22 are arranged to fitwithin the slots 2| of the lifting elements [8: Each said an gleiron 22, 22' is provided with a pair of" integral terminal walls 24, said walls 24 abutting the" allow the bed to be used for the various purposes previously set forth. 7 e
In normal position the sideframe's- H, H" are disposed in the horizontal attitude illustrated in Fig. 3, the inner longitudinal edges being supported upon the upper edges of the lifting elements It. In order'for' the side frames IT, IT
Instead of a to rest upon the upper edges of the lifting elements in parallel relation thereto, a recess 21 is cut in the inner vertical longitudinal wall of said side frames at a point adjacent the front and rear walls thereof, as shown in Fig. 5.
The outer ends of the side frames l1, II are supported by wheels or casters 28 which are mounted upon relatively short legs 29. The legs 29 are connected to the sidefr'ame by means of horizontal extension arms 30 (Figs. 1 and 2) which are preferably integral with said side frames [1, I? and which enable the wheels 28 to ride upon the front and rear transverse angle irons it, i i of the lower bed frame H].
In operation, when the bar I9 is rotated in a clockwise direction, the upper section I I will assume the position shown in Fig. 4. Lifting elements l8 will rotate about the longitudinal axis of cylindrical rods 20. As the left sides of said lifting elements I8 rise, the side frame If is carried upwardly therewith. The right sides of lift ing elements It, moving downwardly, carry with them the attached angle iron 22', causing hinges 23 to break upwardly. Side frame ll being left free of lifting elements l8, and being supported by wheels 28 on the front and rear bars [4, l4, tends to remain in a substantially horizontal po=- sition. Since, however, the connected angle iron 22, in describing a downwardly extending arc, pushes the side frame ll transversely toward the outer edge of the bed, said side frame ll rolls toward said outer'ed'ge on its wheels 28'. Furthermore, angle iron 22' tends to carry downwardly the inner edge of side frame ll", causing said side frame to incline slightly toward the central longitudinal axis of the bed. It is obvious thatthe aforementioned inclination of the side frame H is caused by the height of the legs 29; consequently, if it were desired to maintain the side frames in a perpetually horizontal position, the
' legs would be made shorter, or the wheels mount- The-frontand-rearwalls; of side frames I1 and As I'l are provided with a hole or recess 3!. shown in Fig. 4, the vertical wall of the. lifter ele-' ments 13' is also provided with a hole or recess 32 adjacent each end thereof. 32 come into alignment when the upper section H is in the normal horizontal position shown in Fig. 2. A plug meinber 33 is attached to the lifter elements |8 adjacent each of the holes 3-2,v by means of a chain 34 The plug 33' may be inser'ted into the aligned holes 3| and to ro:
vide stability to th bed and: prevent said bed from being accident'ly rno'ved fror'n its" normal horizontal position. The plugs may be provided at the front or rear of the bed; or at both front and'rea'r thereof.
If itis desired to'rais one of the side frames" and retain it iii this position to maintain thepatient on his side, any conventional m ans for locking the gears in the gear box G may be used In the use of the bed" of my invention, amat:
tress S (Fig. 3) may be provided. Said mat tress- S is shown b'rol'en' line as itforms no part of th present invention; The mattress' S is divided into longitudinal sections of sufficient Width to correspond to the's'ection formed by the side frames I1, I1 and the longitudinal angle" ascents;
5, iron 22, 22.. Each of the sections may bejoined, by-hinges to enable the said sections to be tilted with relation to the others. M n
In order to hold a, mattressof the type described in place upon theupper section when the bed is operated, a plurality of verticaldetent members 35 are afiixed in spaced relation along the lengths of the inner longitudinahwalls of the side frames l1, l1 and the angle irons. 22, 22. The detent members 35 are of sufficient height to abut and hold the lower edgesof the mat;- tress- In addition, if desired, .a bracket (not shown) may be placed in eachouter corner. of the side frames l1, II, to further secure said. mattress. To hold the mattress. .horizontally, springs may be provided to extend horizontally across side frames l1, l1. It can be readily seen that. when a patient is placed on the mattress in the center of the bed,
and the motor is started, the lifting elements IB will begin a slow, almost imperceptible rotationin one direction, and the patient will be slowly turned over. When the limit. is reached, the motor will automatically reverse its direction and slowly turn the patient in the other direction. Thus the position of the patient will be automatically and continually changed.
When it is desired to roll the patient over for: medical care or other reasons, the handle is rotated manually, and by a similar operation, the y patient may be quickly and easily turned.
. While a preferred embodiment of myinvention has been shown and described, it is obvious that numerous alterations, omissions and: additions may be made in the invention without departing from the spirit and scope thereof. It should particularly be noted that the upper section of the bedmay bemade in two sectionsinstead of the three shown in the drawings, or may be made in more than three sections if desired.
I claim:
1. A 7 hospital bed comprising a fixed lower frame assembly, a movable upper-frame assembly pivotally attached thereto, said upper frame assembly comprising a central section and at least tion relative to said bed frame and away from said side frame whereby said side frame is raised from said normal position.
2. A hospital bed comprising a stationary lower frame assembly, a movable upper frame assembly, and mechanical means for moving said upper I frame assembly; said upper frame assembly comprising a longitudinally extending central portion, a pair of rectangular frames pivotally attached to each side of said portion, at least one rotatable lifting arm located beneath said central portion and said rectangular frames and so connected to said mechanical means as to receive rotary motion therefrom, each rectangular frame being normally disposed in a substantially horizontal position.
3. A hospital bed comprising a stationary lower frame assembly, a movable upper frame assembly, and mechanical means for moving said upper frame assembly; said upper frame assembly comprising a longitudinally extending central portion, a pair of rectangular frames pivotally attached to each side of said central portion, at least one transverse rotatable lifting arm located beneath said central portion and said rectangular frames and connected to said mechanical means, each rectangular. frame. being normally disposed in a substantially horizontal 1 position. and being. positioned to extend over one side of saidlifting arm. so .as to be raised when that side. of said lifting. arm rises onrotation thereof; l
4. A hospital bed comprising a stationary lower:- frameassembly, a movable upper frame assembly, and mechanical means for moving said upper frame assembly said upper frame assemblycomprising a longitudinally-extending central portion, a pair of rectangular frames. pivotally attached to each side of said central portion, a
pair of spaced transverse, rotatable lifting arms located beneath said central portion at either end thereof and connected to said mechanical means, each rectangular frame being normally disposed in a substantially horizontal position and normally abutting. one side of said liftingcarms so as to be raised when the abuttingside of said liftingarms rises on rotation thereof.
5. A hospital. bed according to claim 4, inv which the central portion comprises a pairsof spaced longitudinally extending bars, adjustably secured to said transverse lifting arms. 6. A hospital bed comprising a stationary base frame and an upper section mounted thereupon;
said upper section comprising a central portion rotatably mounted upon said base frame, a pair of rectangular side frames pivotally attached along the. longitudinal edges thereof to said central portion, and mechanical means for rotat ing said central portion, each of said side frames normally resting upon said base frame and upon said central portion, said side frames-also being positioned to. be raised by theside of said central portion which rises. on rotation thereof,- and to separate from that side of said central'portion whichlowers on rotation, remaining. in juxta-: position with .said base frame.
'7. A hospitalbed comprising a stationary base.-
frame. and a movable upper frame assembly mounted. thereupon; saidupper frame assembly comprising a longitudinally-disposed rod rotat ably mounted on said base frame, a pair of spaced transverse bars secured to said rod at right angles thereto, a rectangular, horizontallydisposed frame longitudinally and pivotally attached to each of said transverse bars, and mechanical means for rotating said rod, one end of said rectangular frames normally resting upon said transverse bars, the other end of said rectangular frames normally resting upon said base frame, each of said side frames being positioned to be lifted from said base frame by said transverse bars when said transverse bars are rotated in the direction of said side frame, and to pivot away from said bars and remain resting upon said base frame when said bars are rotated away from said side frame.
8. A hospital bed comprising a stationary lower frame assembly and a movable upper frame assembly pivotally attached thereto, said upper frame assembly being divided into a plurality of longitudinal sections, a transverse rotating member normally abutting said longitudinal sections, and mechanical means for rotating said transverse member, said longitudinal sections comprising a center section formed of a plurality of longitudinal bars and secured to said transverse rotating member, and at least one side section hinged along its longitudinal wall to one of said longitudinal bars, said side section being positioned to normally rest upon said lower frame assembly.
9. A hospital bed comprising a lower frame answersassembly', a movable upper name assembly, and mechanical means for operating said upper frame-assembly; said upper frame assembly com prising a longitudinal rod rotatable mounted at either. end-to the-front and rear of the lower frame assembly and connected to said mechanical means,- a pair of transverse arm's attack-led adjacent either end -of said longitudinal ro'd, a pair of longitudinal bars secured to said trans verse arms, and a reotangular side frame piv otally attached along one-longitudinal'w'all there-' of to each of said longitudinal bars, said side frames being normally disposed in ahorizontal 5 position, said side frames also-'havin'g'wheels on the outer corners thereof which i'rvlie'els nor r'nally rest upon the front end rear upper sun faces ofsaid lower frame assembly;
it). A hospital bed comprising a lower frameassembly and a movable upp'er' frame assembly; said upper frame assembly :comprising a rotat able longitudinal rod pivotall y mounted'at each end on. the frontand rear of the bed frame, at-
least Iona-transversearm secured at right angles to said longitudinal rod, a plurality of long n' tudinally-extending bars adjustably secured "to said-transverse arm, a side frame pivotally secured to each of said longitudinally-extending bars along the inner longitudinaledges thereof, said frames being positioned normally to rest upon the upper surface of said transverse arm, the outer corners of said side frames bearing wheels which normally rest upon the front and rear edges of the lower frame assembly, and-me chanicalmeans for rotating the longitudinal rod.
11. A hospital bed comprising a lower frameasseinbly, an upper frame assembly mounted thereupon, said upper frame assembly compris ing'a longitudinally-disposed central section, and a pair of side sections pivotally secured to said central section along their longitudinal edges by upwardly-breaking hinges, said central section being turnable along its "longitudinal axis relative to said lower frame assembly, said side sec- 8; ti'onsnormally resting upon said lower frame assembly, and means to turn said central section.
12. A hospital bed comprising a lower frame assembly, an upper frame assembly mounted thereupon, said upper frame assembly compris ing'alorig itudinally disposed central section, and
a 'pai'r of-sicle sections pivotally secured to said turned toward said side section, and to cause:
the hinges of the 'other side section to break upwardly, leaving said other side section resting upon said lower frame assembly.
13. A hospital bed comprising a base frame and an uppersection mounted thereupon; saidu'pper section comprising a central portion rotat-, ably mounted upon said base frame, a pair ofrectangular side frames pivotally attached along, their longitudinal edges to said'central portion, and means for rotating said central portion, each of said "side fr'am'es normally resting upon said base frame, said side frames being positionedto be raised by the side of said central portionwhich rises-onlrotation thereofland to pivot rela-- tive to that side'of the central portion which lowers on rotation, remaining in juxtaposition withs'aid base frame.
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