Beds – With means for relocating an invalid – Horizontally sliding patient support surface
Patent
1989-11-13
1990-11-13
Trettel, Michael F.
Beds
With means for relocating an invalid
Horizontally sliding patient support surface
5 83, 297DIG10, A61G 710
Patent
active
049692216
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to a lifting and lowering apparatus, and more particularly to such an apparatus useful to persons experiencing difficulty in arising from bed. The apparatus has a base frame for resting on a supporting surface such as a floor, a person supporting platform for engaging the thighs and buttocks of a user of the apparatus, and pivot and lifting devices coupling the platform and the base frame for free rotation of said platform means about a horizontal axis and for powered lifting and lowering of the platform relative to the base frame.
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Product Brochure: Power Toilet Elevator of Med/West Div. of Western Mfg. Corp, Marshalltown, Iowa 50158 4/87.
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