Transfer lift

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1998-07-13

2001-10-30

Vanaman, Frank (Department: 3611)

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Extensible

C280S647000, C280S047340, C005S086100

Reexamination Certificate

active

06308981

ABSTRACT:

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to a device for moving an invalid and more particularly to a dolly for aiding anyone with difficulty walking or standing to move between various sitting locations.
Persons with problems standing or walking are frequently restricted to wheel chairs. These individuals have great difficulty moving from the wheel chair to bed or onto a toilet. The horizontal bars commonly found fixed to the walls of handicapped toilet stalls are one solution, but these are limited to use at the particular location. At many locations, placement of such a bar is not possible. Further, many invalids lack the upper body strength to effectively use these bars as an aid in moving from one sitting location to another.
Among the several objects of the present invention may be noted the provision of a dolly for transferring a bedfast or wheel chair bound patient or similar invalid between various sitting locations; the provision of a push cart for moving an invalid from one location to another; and the provision of a collapsible push cart. These as well as other objects and advantageous features of the present invention will be in part apparent and in part pointed out hereinafter.
In general, a push cart for moving an invalid from one location to another has four wheels, a foot rest, a hand grip region, and a cushion all relatively located so that the invalid may assume a bent over position and simultaneously have his feet on the foot rest and his hands gripping the hand grip region while the ventral portion of his chest and abdomen rest on the cushion. There may be a pair of pivot pads located below and outwardly of the foot rest and beyond the four wheels so that the cart may be pivoted beginning on the front two of the four wheels and then onto the pivot pads to rotate the invalid into a sitting position on a bed, wheel chair, toilet or the like.


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