Beds – With means for relocating an invalid – Horizontally sliding patient support surface
Patent
1976-07-26
1977-10-04
Nunberg, Casmir A.
Beds
With means for relocating an invalid
Horizontally sliding patient support surface
5 92, A47B 8304, A47C 2300
Patent
active
040515656
ABSTRACT:
A lightweight, portable conveyor or transportation unit for moving heavy or fragile objects and which is particularly suited for the movement of injured humans as between supporting carriers, such as hospital emergency carts or tables, and a patient bed, or vice versa. The transportation unit comprises an open-ended, flexible tube-like member, the flexible walls of which collapse inwardly to form a double layer mat having a wear-resistant exterior layer or surface composed of tough flexible material and which may include an under cushion for the support of the patient's body. An inner layer or lining of flexible material having a low coefficient of friction is laminated coextensively over the inner face of the exterior layer. Objects are placed on the upper face of the mat and transported over an undersupporting surface by moving the collapsed flexible walls of the tube transversely of the tubular axis with the interengaged opposing surfaces of the slippery interior lining providing a desired low friction interface between the object and undersupporting surface.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2918681 (1959-12-01), Davis
patent: 3769642 (1973-11-01), Warman
patent: 3849813 (1974-11-01), Neilson
patent: 3978531 (1976-09-01), Ilon
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