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.
Claims4
An invalid transfer arrangement comprising:
- a bed having a mattress, a bed frame, and legs;
- transport means having rollers at opposite ends of the bed;
- a flexible sheet on which a person may lie and extending over said mattress between said rollers;
- roller drive means for winding said sheet from a roller at one bed end 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;
- lift means having lift arms extending along each side of said mattress and movably attached to pivot points near the foot-end of said bed;
- lift drive means for causing said lift arms to rise above said mattress surface and rotating about said pivot points;
- lifting support means attached to said lift arms for raising the person to a sitting or standing position at the end of the bed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.