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Vanry B-9

Product Code: HFAF-HB-3781

Four hand cranks set five positions, wherever the bed is parked.

Crank the backrest to 70°, tip the deck 14° either way or lift it from 490 to 860 mm, with no socket, battery or motor involved. Four foot-end cranks carry five positions on a 1950 × 900 mm platform rated to 260 kg.

Sections

Manual bed

Categories

Hospital Furniture & Fixtures

Condition

New

Origin

China

Seller Type

Certified Professional Seller

Size:

2165 × 1000 × 490–860 mm

CE & ISO Certified

Global Shipping

Supplier: Medigear

The B-9 from Hebei Vanry Medical Devices is a five-function manual hospital bed built for adult wards and care settings. Four cranks at the foot end drive every movement. The backrest rises from 0 to 70° (±5°), the knee rest from 0 to 35° (±5°), platform height runs from 490 to 860 mm (±20 mm), and the deck tilts from 0 to 14° (±2°) head-down or head-up. Vanry also lists multi-position calf adjustment. It has no motor, battery, handset, or cable, and its function list includes no lateral tilt, weighing, or CPR quick release.

With nothing electrical on the frame, the B-9 carries no electrical test regime, needs no socket and has no battery to replace. A power cut leaves every position where the carer set it, and the bed works the same in a field clinic, a generator-fed ward or a home with no spare outlet. The cost of that independence is labour: every movement requires a carer at the foot end to turn a handle, and the patient cannot reposition alone.

Safe working load is 260 kg on a 1950 × 900 mm platform. Photography shows a perforated steel deck in sections, an aluminium side rail with a red release latch, ABS end panels with blue inserts, corner bumpers and four castors. At the same time, the written specification covers only the frame, platform and cranks. Rails determine the fall-risk assessment and castors determine how the bed moves, so the enquiry team shares the manufacturer's written configuration before providing a quotation. Neither source shows a mattress.

The unit measures 2165 × 1000 mm overall (±20 mm), with platform height adjustable from 490 to 860 mm. Medigear.uk offers it to buyers in more than 80 countries, and the enquiry team provides stock and lead time information.

The B-9 fits adult inpatient wards, nursing and residential care, rehabilitation units, field and mobile hospitals, and clinics where mains power is unreliable or sockets are scarce. It keeps every position through a power cut and carries no electrical test burden, so it suits estates that want a bed fleet with nothing to charge or certify electrically.

The backrest covers the angles most care plans call for. Sitting a patient up for meals, oral care and conversation needs 30 to 45°, and the 70° ceiling reaches an upright posture for eating or chest examination. The 2026 Cochrane review of mechanically ventilated adults found that semi-recumbent positioning reduces ventilator-associated pneumonia compared with lying flat. It also found that angles of 40 to 45° probably make little difference in clinically suspected pneumonia compared with 30°, and that higher angles increase pressure ulcers. Head elevation is a care decision with a cost, and the bed only makes it possible.

The Trendelenburg range needs the same honesty. A 2012 systematic review in Emergencias found the evidence too inconsistent to call head-down tilt beneficial in hypotension. A meta-analysis by Geerts and colleagues found cardiac output rose by about 9% at one minute, then fell to about 4% within ten. The tilt earns its place in repositioning, procedures and patient comfort, and it is no treatment for shock.

Height travel from 490 to 860 mm lowers the platform for transfers and raises it to a working height for washing and dressings. NHS procurement routes, and equivalent public purchasing elsewhere, require the device class and a declaration of conformity. The manufacturer issues the conformity documentation required by those procurement routes, and the enquiry team shares it.

No electrical safety test regime

Without a motor, battery, or cable, the bed falls outside portable appliance testing and electrical inspection schedules. Maintenance becomes a mechanical check of screws, joints, castors and brakes, which estates teams can plan without an electrician.

Positions that survive a power cut

A cranked position stays put when the lights go out. Wards on generator changeover and clinics with rolling outages keep patients upright, tilted or at transfer height without resetting anything.

Placement anywhere with a level floor

The bed needs no outlet within cable reach, so it can go to a corridor bay, a surge ward, a field tent, or a home bedroom without an electrician's visit. That flexibility matters most in emergency expansion.

Five positions on one frame

Backrest, knee rest, height, Trendelenburg and reverse Trendelenburg cover sitting up, contouring, transfers and tilt from four cranks. A single bed type can then serve most adult ward tasks, which keeps induction and spares simple.

A 260 kg safe working load

The stated load gives room for heavier adults plus a mattress and accessories. Check the maximum patient weight on the manufacturer's labelling to keep the margin honest once you add a pressure-relieving mattress.

Height range for carer posture and transfers

The platform drops to 490 mm for sit-to-stand transfers and rises to 860 mm for washing, dressings and examinations. Working at the right height reduces the stoop that drives back injuries among carers.

Nothing to wear out electronically

Actuators, control boxes and batteries have finite lives and replacement costs. On the B-9 the wearing parts are screws, bushes and castors, which are simpler to source and fit.

Honest about the labour trade

Every adjustment takes a carer at the foot end, and the patient cannot reposition alone. Buyers who plan for that know exactly what they are getting, and can place the bed where repositioning is occasional and staffed.

Four foot-end cranks

The cranks sit together at the foot of the frame, so one carer standing in one place reaches every movement. The manufacturer's crank-to-function map, shared by the enquiry team, belongs on the induction sheet.

Backrest to 70°

The head section rises from flat to 70° (±5°). That spans the 30 to 45° used for most sitting-up care and continues to a near-upright posture for eating.

Knee rest to 35°

Raising the knee section to 35° (±5°) contours the platform so the patient is less inclined to slide toward the foot end when the backrest is up.

Calf multi-position adjustment

Vanry lists the calf section as adjustable through several positions, separate from the knee break. Leg support can then be set for oedema management or comfort once the knee rest is raised.

Height from 490 to 860 mm

Platform height travels 370 mm (±20 mm at each end), from a low transfer height to a standing work height.

Trendelenburg and reverse Trendelenburg to 14°

The platform tilts head-down or head-up through 0 to 14° (±2°). Head-down tilt helps carers slide a patient back up the bed, and head-up tilt supports positioning after meals.

1950 × 900 mm platform

The mattress platform measures 1950 × 900 mm (±20 mm). A mattress sized to it, and to the rail height if rails are fitted, is a separate purchase.

Sectioned perforated deck

The photograph shows a perforated steel deck divided into sections for the backrest, seat, thigh and calf. Perforations help ventilation under the mattress and reduce the weight carried by the frame.

Side rail as photographed

The product photograph shows an aluminium side rail with vertical posts and a red release latch. Whether rails ship, and on how many sides, comes with the manufacturer's written configuration from the enquiry team.

ABS head and foot panels

The photographed end panels are moulded ABS with blue inserts and hand grips. Moulded plastic wipes clean between patients, and the panels protect the frame ends during moves.

Corner bumpers

Grey bumpers at the photographed corners take the knocks that would otherwise land on door frames and walls as the bed is moved.

Four castors

The photograph shows four castors under the frame. The manufacturer's configuration specifies wheel diameter, brake type, and whether braking is central or per castor, which the enquiry team shares.

No electrical parts

The frame carries no motor, battery, handset or cable. Nothing needs charging, electrical testing, or isolating before cleaning.

The B-9 suits buyers who want an adult ward bed with five positions and no dependence on mains power. Field hospitals, surge capacity, care homes, and clinics with unreliable supply gain the most, provided a carer is available whenever the patient needs to move. It is a poor fit for patients who should reposition themselves, for weights near 260 kg once the mattress is counted, and for children or small adults unless rails meet BS EN 50637. Before ordering, settle the rail and castor configuration, the mattress and the maximum patient weight. Medigear.uk lists the B-9 for business buyers worldwide and can arrange delivery, installation, commissioning, familiarisation and service cover. Ask the enquiry team for the declaration of conformity, the crank-to-function map, the packing list and the spares list before ordering.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything buyers need to know about sourcing medical equipment through MediGear.

The five functions are backrest raise, knee rest raise, platform height, Trendelenburg tilt, and reverse Trendelenburg tilt, matching the five icons on the manufacturer's sheet. Four cranks share those movements, and the manufacturer's page also lists calf-section adjustment as a separate feature. The enquiry team shared the manufacturer's crank-to-function map, which is worth adding to the ward induction sheet.

The bed has no motor, battery, or cable, so it needs no socket and does not require portable appliance testing. It still counts as work equipment under PUWER 1998 wherever employees use it, which means planned inspection and maintenance of the crank screws, joints and brakes.

The photograph shows an aluminium side rail, ABS end panels, corner bumpers and four castors, while the written specification lists the frame, platform and four cranks. Establish whether side rails are part of the quoted configuration before the bed enters a falls risk assessment, because rails change both the fall risk and the entrapment risk. No mattress appears in either source, so budget for one separately.

The platform measures 1950 × 900 mm (±20 mm). Establish the mattress depth before ordering if rails are fitted, since MHRA bed rails guidance ties rail height and entrapment gaps to the mattress in use. A deeper pressure-relieving mattress may call for extra-height rails, and the manufacturer's instructions for use set the permitted range.

The manufacturer gives a safe working load of 260 kg. That figure covers the patient, the mattress, and anything else resting on the platform, so the maximum patient weight is below it. The manufacturer's labelling and instructions for use state the maximum patient weight, which the enquiry team includes with the quotation.

HSE information sheet HSIS4 treats a variable-height bed as a bed first, so height adjustment alone does not make it lifting equipment and six-monthly LOLER thorough examination does not normally apply. PUWER inspection and maintenance still apply in any workplace. Where a bed is loaned solely for use by a patient and unpaid carers at home, HSE treats it as outside work equipment during the loan.

Vanry's site states that the company holds CE certification and displays ISO 13485:2016 among its certificates, though neither names the B-9. The B-9 is typically Class I under UK MDR 2002, or higher depending on use, as stated on the manufacturer's declaration of conformity, which the enquiry team shares. Great Britain accepts CE-marked devices under transitional arrangements; the MHRA consulted in 2026 on making that recognition indefinite, and UKCA remains the alternative route.

The cranks sit at the foot end, and there is no handset, so every adjustment on the B-9 needs a carer. Patients who need to shift their own backrest at night need patient-operated controls, which this model does not have. The enquiry team can point to an alternative specification.

It is the wrong choice for anyone above the safe working load once mattress weight is counted, and for children or small-stature adults unless the rails meet BS EN 50637. Units that reposition high-dependency patients many times a shift will feel the carer time each crank adds up to. Critical care teams that expect a rapid CPR release should note that it is not among the listed functions.

The recurring costs are mechanical: planned inspection under PUWER, lubrication and wear parts for the crank screws, castor and brake servicing, and mattress replacement. The quotation from the enquiry team sets out warranty terms and the spares list. No battery, actuator, or control box will need replacing over the bed's life.