Stowable rescue device for patient transport
AssigneeB & M Welding, Inc.
InventorWilliam A. Moore
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Abstract
A rescue device (20) having a sled body (22), back support member (24), safety belts (26, 28, 30), and a lowering strap (32) is utilized to lower incapacitated individuals down inclined terrain such as stairs. The sled body (22) includes a plurality of reinforcing corrugations (46, 64, 72, 88, 98) and a plurality of integral components such as a U-shaped perimeter edge (44) and hand holds (92) which make the sled body (22) more rigid, so that the entire device weighs only twenty-one pounds. A hanging apparatus (128) is provided in combination with the device (20) and includes hanging arms (132) which extend through handle openings (96) of the sled body (22) to store the device (20).
Claims20
A stowable rescue device for transporting incapacitated individuals across inclined and substantially horizontal terrain:
- a unitary and substantially rigid sled body having a bottom, a foot end, a back end opposed to the foot end, opposed sidewalls, a top perimeter edge formed by the opposed sidewalls, foot end, and back end, and a plurality of reinforcing corrugations;
- a substantially rigid back support member attached to the sled body adjacent to the back end of the sled body for supporting a back of an individual being transported;
- a plurality of spherical balls received in sockets, attached to the sled bottom, forming rollers for transport of the rescue device across substantially horizontal terrain;
- an elongated lowering strap attached to at least one of the sled body and back support member;
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- at least one safety belt anchored to at least one of the sled body and back support member to hold the individual being transported.
A stowable rescue device for transporting incapacitated individuals across inclined and substantially horizontal terrain:
- a unitary and substantially rigid sled body having a bottom, a foot end, a back end opposed to the foot end, opposed sidewalls, a top perimeter edge formed by the opposed sidewalls, foot end, and back end, and a plurality of reinforcing corrugations;
- a substantially rigid back support member attached to the sled body adjacent to the back end of the sled body for supporting a back of an individual being transported;
- a plurality of spherical balls received in ball support mechanisms, the ball support mechanisms substantially recessed in the sled bottom, forming rollers for transport of the rescue device across substantially horizontal terrain;
- an elongated lowering strap attached to at least one of the sled body and back support member;
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- at least one safety belt anchored to at least one of the sled body and back support member to hold the individual being transported.
A stowable rescue device for transporting incapacitated individuals across inclined and substantially horizontal terrain:
- a unitary and substantially rigid sled body having a bottom, a foot end, a back end opposed to the foot end, opposed sidewalls, a top perimeter edge formed by the opposed sidewalls, foot end, and back end, and a plurality of reinforcing corrugations extending along the length of the sled body;
- a substantially rigid back support member attached to the sled body adjacent to the back end of the sled body for supporting a back of an individual being transported;
- a plurality of spherical balls received in sockets, attached to the sled bottom, forming rollers for transport of the rescue device across substantially horizontal terrain;
- an elongated lowering strap attached to at least one of the sled body and back support member;
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- at least one safety belt anchored to at least one of the sled body and back support member to hold the individual being transported.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.