Dual position push handles for hospital stretcher

Land vehicles – Wheeled – Stable vehicles – handle-propelled

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5 82R, 296 20, 403102, A61G 102

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ABSTRACT:
A stretcher for a medical patient has at one end two L-shaped handles which each have first and second legs and which are each supported at the outer end of the first leg for 90.degree. pivotal movement between a position in which the first leg is horizontal and approximately level with the top surface of the stretcher and a position in which the second leg is horizontal and located vertically higher than the top surface of the stretcher. The stretcher has two spaced vertical openings therein, and the first leg of each handle has an extension, each extension being received in a respective opening in the stretcher for lengthwise sliding movement between a first position in which the extension is disposed substantially within the opening and a second position in which the extension is disposed substantially outside the opening. When the handle is in its second position, it can be pivoted with respect to the opening from its second position to a third position about an axis extending transversely of the opening, the handle being in its two positions when the extension is respectively in its first and third positions.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1639801 (1927-08-01), Heise
patent: 3004768 (1961-10-01), Klages
Midmark 530 Stretcher Information, Midmark Catalog, p. 14.

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