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A variable width bariatric bed including a frame having a modular configuration with front end, rear end and middle frame sections that are detachable from one another to facilitate storage, transport and relocation through narrow entrances. A series of electric motors carried by the frame apply pus

A variable width bariatric bed including a frame having a modular configuration with front end, rear end and middle frame sections that are detachable from one another to facilitate storage, transport and relocation through narrow entrances. A series of electric motors carried by the frame apply pushing forces to raise a plurality of mattress support deck sections to adjust the contour of a mattress. Each of the mattress support deck sections has a pair of pull out extensions that are adapted to slide outwardly and in opposite directions from a retracted position to an extended position at which the mattress support deck sections have a relatively wide width to support a correspondingly wide (e.g. 48 inch) mattress. Such mattress includes a mattress body and a pair of (e.g. foam or air filled) mattress extensions that are releasably connected at opposite sides of the mattress body and seated upon the pair of pull out extensions of the mattress support deck sections.

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1. A bed comprising:a frame having first and opposite ends; a plurality of deck sections pivotally connected to said frame to support a mattress, said plurality of deck sections including a head mattress support deck section and a thigh mattress support deck section; a first electric motor carried b

1. A bed comprising:a frame having first and opposite ends; a plurality of deck sections pivotally connected to said frame to support a mattress, said plurality of deck sections including a head mattress support deck section and a thigh mattress support deck section; a first electric motor carried by said frame to exert a pushing force whereby to cause the first end of said frame to move upwardly relative to a floor surface; a second electric motor carried by said frame and coupled to said head mattress support deck section to exert a pushing force whereby to cause said head mattress support deck section to rotate upwardly relative to said frame; a third electric motor carried by said frame and coupled to said thigh mattress support deck section to exert a pushing force whereby to cause said thigh mattress support deck section to rotate upwardly relative to said frame; and a fourth electric motor carried by said frame to exert a pushing force whereby to cause the opposite end of said frame to move upwardly relative to the floor surface and independently of the upward movement of the first end of said frame caused by said first electric motor.