Beds – With means for relocating an invalid – With a hoisting – lifting – elevating – or raising device
Patent
1997-06-10
1998-08-11
Trettel, Michael F.
Beds
With means for relocating an invalid
With a hoisting, lifting, elevating, or raising device
5 871, 4491, A61G 710
Patent
active
057909954
ABSTRACT:
An aquatic lifting device to lift a person into and out of a swimming pool or similar location, the lifting device includes a base with a mast segment coupled to and extending upwardly from the base. A pair of spaced apart support arms are pivotally coupled to the mast segment, with a transport assembly structured to support a person during pivotal movement of the support arms, secured at a first end of the support arms. A pivot assembly is provided and is structured to pivotally move the support arm relative to the mast segment so as to correspondingly raise and lower the transport assembly and the person supportably disposed thereon, and a plurality of casters are secured to the base so as to facilitate movement and re-positioning of the entire assembly. So as to maintain the base securely and stably positioned on an underlying support surface during pivotal movement of the support arm, whether a person is being lifted or not and thereby permitting independent, completely portable positioning of the base at any desired position on the underlying support surface, a counterweight assembly is further coupled to the base.
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