Material or article handling – Wheeled – load-transporting type vehicles and means for... – With means on each vehicle cooperating to effect – or...
Patent
1992-11-30
1994-04-26
Huppert, Michael S.
Material or article handling
Wheeled, load-transporting type vehicles and means for...
With means on each vehicle cooperating to effect, or...
414349, 414396, 414402, 414584, 5 811, B65G 6900
Patent
active
053061098
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to a transportable medical apparatus, in particular an infusion supply apparatus, comprising a support and appliances to be mounted to the support, for the care of patients.
Such an apparatus is known from DE-A-39 17 892.
The DE-A-31 45 310 further discloses an appliance receiving system in the medical technology, wherein the appliance is fixed to an appliance frame having guide rails. By means of these guide rails and of two catches which cooperate with a locking bar the appliance frame can be connected with a lifted truck for transport and with a frame receiver at the place of application.
This system is relatively space-consuming and provided for heavy and voluminous appliances.
Further, the DE-B-28 12 074 discloses a patient bedding plate which can be transferred from a carriage to a table mounting and which has couplings with pivotable catches for connection with the carriage or the table mounting, respectively. This catch lock enables the patient bedding plate to swing around a horizontal axis by 360.degree. and secures the reliable support thereof independent of eventual operating errors.
This apparatus is--corresponding to its function--large and expensive; the latter also applies to the couplings and locks.
It is the object of the invention to modify the generic apparatus so as to allow a particularly simple coupling and transfer from the stationary apparatus to the patient transporting means and vice versa.
This object is achieved by the transportable medical apparatus defined in claim 1.
Further embodiments of the invention are defined in the subclaims.
In the following, embodiments are described with reference to the Figures. In the Figures:
FIG. 1 shows a schematic representation of a transportable medical apparatus with support and patient transporting means;
FIG. 2 is a section through the coupling means cooperating with the coupling members in an uncoupled state;
FIG. 3 is a top view of the apparatus of FIG. 2 with removed cover;
FIG. 4 is a bottom view of the apparatus of FIG. 2 with removed cover;
FIG. 5 shows the apparatus of FIG. 2 wherein the trunnion of a patient transporting means or of the stationary apparatus is locked;
FIG. 6 is a representation of FIG. 5 wherein both trunnions are inserted into the coupling means;
FIG. 7 is a representation of FIG. 5 wherein only the trunnion of the mobile chassis is inserted and locked; and
FIGS. 8a-c shows a modified embodiment in the representation corresponding to that of FIG. 1.
FIG. 1 shows a part of an overhead support 1 with a trunnion 2 mounted thereto and extending vertically upwards. A further trunnion 4 which also extends vertically upwards is provided at a frame portion of a bed 3 serving as a patient transporting means. A mobile chassis 5 comprises a lifting apparatus 6 on a chassis. The lifting apparatus has an upwardly extendable and retractable, respectively, piston 7 which can be moved through pneumatic means or through a corresponding drive for operation by a crank 8. At the upper free end thereof the piston 7 has a third trunnion 9 which also extends vertically upwards. The three trunnions 2, 4 and 9 are in parallel alignment to each other.
A support base 11 carrying the medical appliances 10 of the infusion supply apparatus comprises a support rod 12 for mounting the appliances 10 thereto and a plate-shaped member forming a coupling means 13. The coupling means 13 comprises a substantially plate-shaped body 14. A vertical bore 15 for receiving the support rod 12 extends through the center of the plate. A locking member 16 which is formed as an asymmetrically supported pintle is provided for locking the coupling means 13 at the support rod 12. By rotating this locking member, the lock between both parts can be released and the coupling means can be vertically adjusted at the support rod 12.
The coupling means comprises two holes 17, 18 which extend parallel to the axis of the bore 15 receiving the support rod 12 at positions symmetric with respect to this bore. As may be best seen from FIG. 2, the two hol
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Kreuzer Friedhelm
Stockl Armin
Brown Donald
Huppert Michael S.
Keenan James
Kreuzer GmbH & Co. OHG
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