Beds – With means for relocating an invalid – Rotatable platform type
Patent
1996-12-23
1998-09-01
Trettel, Michael F.
Beds
With means for relocating an invalid
Rotatable platform type
5 861, 414921, 280680, 2802501, A61G 710
Patent
active
057993475
ABSTRACT:
A rear loaded and unloaded wheelchair and method for transferring a patient between a bed and a wheelchair through the rear of the wheelchair. The wheelchair includes a wheeled main frame, a sub-frame rearwardly extensible relative to the main frame to a position overlying the bed. The sub-frame is vertical moveable on the main frame to raise and lower the sub-frame to a position adjacent the bed and a position removed from the bed. A patient supporting chair is rotatably mounted on the sub-frame for rolling movement between a forward position and a rearward position adjacent the bed cantileverly supported on the main frame via the sub-frame. The chair includes a frame having laterally spaced apart rails and upstanding back rails. The side seat rails detachably mount a seat on which a person will sit while seated on a bed. The back support is moveably mounted on the back frame members between a lowered back supporting position and a raised position overlying a patient seated on a bed allowing the seat frame to be moved to a position rearwardly of the patient sitting on the bed. Transferring a patient from the wheelchair to the bed is accomplished by reversing the above procedure.
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Swartz John J.
Trettel Michael F.
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