US 4,629,242 AGranted

Patient transporting vehicle

AssigneeColson Equipment, Inc.

InventorJames E. Schrager

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Abstract

A vehicle is provided for use in hospitals, clinics, and medical facilities for transporting patients between various locations while in a prone, reclining, or sitting position. The vehicle includes a first member on which the patient is placed, and a second member disposed beneath the first member and in supporting engagement therewith. The second member, sometimes referred to as the undercarriage, includes an elongated flexible chassis having a center section and endwise offset end segments. Disposed at opposite ends of the chassis and secured to corresponding end segments are depending end sections. Wheels or the like are attached to the depending end sections. Resilient, shock-absorbing elements are interposed the end sections and the offset end segments secured thereto whereby external forces impacted on the wheels while the vehicle is in motion are substantially absorbed by the resilient elements and by chassis flexure.

Claims31

Dependent claims

A vehicle for use in transporting a patient in a selected direction along a surface, comprising:

a first member for subtending and supportingly engaging the patient at a predetermined elevation relative to the surface;
and a second member supportingly engaging said first member, said second member including:
a chassis having an elongated center section, first and second end segments disposed transversely of said center section and being integral with said center section, and a terminal portion extending between said center section and each said end segment;
first and second depending end sections secured to said first and second end segments of said chassis, respectively;
surface-engaging wheel means subtending and attached to said first and second depending end sections;
and resilient shock-absorbing means secured between said first depending end section and first end segment and between said second depending end section and said second end segment, whereby said first and second depending end sections are disposed a spaced distance from said first and second end segments, respectively, and whereby external forces impacting on said wheel means while the vehicle is in motion are substantially absorbed by said resilient means and by flexure of the terminal portions.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 06/820,880Filed 16 Jan 1986 · continuation
Priority: 29 Jul 1983
Granted: 16 Dec 1986
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

A61G 7/00
Beds specially adapted for nursing
A61G 1/0212
Characterised by the number of supporting wheels if stretcher is extended: 2 pairs having wheels within a pair on the same position in…
A61G 1/0237
With wheels: having at least one swivelling wheel, e.g. castors
A61G 1/042
Parts, details or accessories, e.g. head-, foot- or like rests specially adapted for stretchers: suspension means