Patient-lifter
AssigneeSociete Anonyme dite: SETIM Societe d'Etudes Techniques des Industries Metallurgiques
InventorRobert Linard
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Abstract
A patient-lifting stretcher comprises a movable flexible frame formed of two closed longitudinal slideways between which there are movably mounted two parallel support sheets staggered with respect to each other which have one end in common provided with a reversing roller and two separate ends each having a reversing roller. Over these rollers and sheets there slide two cloths whose common end is connected to a fixed point and whose other ends, after passing over the rollers, are each firmly connected with a separate fixed point so that when the stretcher is displaced, one of the cloths moves under the body of the patient while the other, below this one, moves over the mattress or other surface which has until then directly sustained the body.
Claims9
Apparatus for supporting and transferring a patient, comprising:
- a framework comprising a pair of closed slideway tracks, said tracks being laterally spaced apart and being disposed in parallel generally vertical planes for positioning the tracks in stationary condition on sides of a flat support surface for a patient, the tracks having upper and lower, normally horizontal track portions and having a terminal track portion interconnecting ends of the horizontal track portions;
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- flexible stretcher means disposed to be guided by said track portions for positioning the flexible stretcher means, along said lower track portion, between the support surface and the patient to transfer the patient onto and from the flexible stretcher means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.