Invalid transfer arrangement
AssigneeNova Technologies, Inc.
InventorsPaul DiMatteo, Charles F. Chubb, Stewart Senator
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Abstract
Apparatus used in conjunction with a bed and having rollers and a transfer sheet to transport a patient over the bed and partially onto a horizontal seat of a wheelchair. The patient is then raised to a normal seated position, without requiring any effort on the part of the patient. The patient can also be transported to a sitting position at the end of the bed, or to a standing position on the floor. The apparatus is arranged for installation on existing hospital or home-type beds so that a patient can be comfortably transported to a seated position on a wheelchair, commode, surface, or to a seated or standing position at the end of the bed.
Claims9
An invalid transfer arrangement comprising:
- a bed having opposite ends, a mattress with sides and foot-end, a bed frame, and legs;
- a wheelchair adjacent to said bed with seat level with the top of the mattress;
- transport means including rollers at said opposite ends of the bed;
- a flexible sheet on which a person may lie and extending over said mattress between said rollers;
- roller drive for winding said sheet from a roller at one bed and unwinding said sheet from a roller on the opposite bed end for pulling said sheet across the mattress surface so as to cause the person in a supine position to be transported across the bed onto the wheelchair with a person's back remaining on the bed;
- a pair of lift arms extending part way along the sides of the mattress and pivoted about a horizontal axis near and parallel to the foot-end of the mattress;
- lift drive means to rotate the pair of lift arms to a substantially vertical position;
- lifting support means connected to the lift arms for supporting the person so that he is lifted to a sitting position on the wheelchair by rotation of the lift arms;
- said wheelchair back means adapted to be placed behind the person.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.