Beds – Attachment or accessory
Patent
1995-07-25
1997-01-07
Trettel, Michael F.
Beds
Attachment or accessory
5625, 602 34, A61F 504
Patent
active
055904319
ABSTRACT:
The invention comprises a novel stretcher frame clamp, which allows standard hospital-style traction components to be used in conjunction with ambulance cots or the like. In the preferred embodiment, the clamp comprises two clamp halves, which when joined together define an octagonal outer shaped clamping area. The octagonal outer shape of the clamping area is sized to adapt to octagonal tubing-based traction components. Each clamp half also has a recessed channel cut therein, which is of a shape and size so that when the clamp halves are joined together around a stretcher frame rail, the frame rail passes through the center of the frame clamp assembly and contacts the clamp assembly along the entire length of the frame rail section which passes therethrough. The clamp halves are held together to create the clamp assembly in a compressive fashion, so as to squeeze the stretcher frame rail as it passes through the clamp assembly. Thus, the clamp assembly is held rigidly in position on a stretcher frame rail and serves as the base to which hospital-style traction components are attached.
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