Beds – With means for relocating an invalid – Horizontally sliding patient support surface
Patent
1990-08-27
1992-09-22
Luebke, Renee S.
Beds
With means for relocating an invalid
Horizontally sliding patient support surface
5 861, A61G 708
Patent
active
051485575
ABSTRACT:
A lifting mechanism, on a carriage assembly, supports a body support assembly to lift transport and thereafter set down a person. A back safety belt, carried by a pair of belt support holders, provides a first body support. The holders must be disposed in slots defined by "C" shaped members carried by arms carried by the lifting mechanism, before a leg support device can be hung from rivets carried by the holders. The leg support device is disposed beneath the person's legs proximate their knees and includes a board supported at its ends by clevises hung from the rivets, and a belt or belts passed over a person's legs and belted in place; and constitutes a second body support. A chest support device, constituting a third body support, is also carried by the lifting mechanism and is disposed to receive thereagainst the chest of a person being lifted, transported and lowered. The leg support device cannot be utilized unless the back support device is in place. In an alternative embodiment the chest support is spring biased and pivotally mounted to coact with a locking lever which includes a finger projecting into the path of disposition of at least one back support holder to prevent disposition thereof and hanging of the leg support device, unless force is applied to the chest support device as by a person leaning thereagainst. Another embodiment provides for adjustment of the chest support device between six degree and forty-five degree positions; while a still further embodiment provides screw adjustable spacing of carriage frame members.
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Fridman Vladimir
Rosen Stanley R.
Furgang Philip
Luebke Renee S.
Milano Michael J.
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