Abstract:
A utility security blanket for restraining a patient from throwing off the bed clothes or from getting out of bed, and as a utility blanket simultaneously functioning as a comfortable bed cover, this blanket being rectangular and provided with strong straps extending lengthwise of the blanket as well as straps extending crosswise thereof, the latter having extensions easily detached from the blanket by an attendant when not required, but ordinarily secured to the bed frame. A further feature of the blanket is that it can be opened or separated partially or end to end, by an attendant, for emergency or merely simplified release of the patient, or for providing access to the patient, without untieing the strap extensions from the bed frame, the opening being closer to one lateral edge than the other for convenience and the zipper slider being secreted under a small flap for precautionary reasons.