Beds – With means for relocating an invalid – With a hoisting – lifting – elevating – or raising device
Patent
1990-01-26
1991-01-29
Trettel, Michael F.
Beds
With means for relocating an invalid
With a hoisting, lifting, elevating, or raising device
5 81B, 5185, 5430, A61G 102, A47C 2108
Patent
active
049876236
ABSTRACT:
A hospital stretcher includes an upwardly facing patient support surface and side rails on each side of the surface movable between raised and collapsed positions. Each side rail has at one end a spindle with a handle portion which, in the raised position, extends downwardly and away from the side rail. In the collapsed position, the top of each side rail is disposed below the support surface on the stretcher. The stretcher has on each side thereof a patient transfer mechanism, each transfer mechanism including a support board which can, from a retracted position disposed lower than the patient support surface, move upwardly between the support surface and one side rail in a vertical orientation and then pivot 90.degree. to a horizontal orientation in which a surface thereon is level with the patient support surface and in which an underside of one edge portion of the support board rests on top of the collapsed side rail.
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Fennell Thomas W.
Stryker Martin W.
Stryker Corporation
Trettel Michael F.
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