Patient handler

• US 3,261,031 A
• Filed: 06/17/1964
• Issued: 07/19/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 06/17/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: James T. Gates
• Original Assignee: James T. Gates
• Inventors: Gates, James T.
• Application Number:
  US04/375,899
• Time in Patent Office: 762 Days
• US Class Current: 5/86.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 2200/34 sitting
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 2200/36 standing
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 5/006 convertible to stretchers or beds
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 5/1002 with toilet facilities room closets, night chairs A47K11/04
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 5/1059 adjusting the height of the seat
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 5/1075 tilting the whole seat backwards tilting forwards for standing-up or sitting-down aids A61G5/14
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 5/14 Standing-up or sitting-down aids
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/005 tiltable around transverse horizontal axis, e.g. for Trendelenburg position rocking beds for physical therapy A61H1/003; hanging patient inclined downwardly for drawing him out A61H2203/0493
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1019 Vertical extending columns or mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1046 Mobile bases, e.g. having wheels
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1048 having auxiliary drive means
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1057 Supported platforms, frames or sheets for patient in lying position
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1092 the arms
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1098 Ankle or foot
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 297/04 Wheelchair
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 297/10 Occupant-arising assist

Claims

1. A PATIENT HANDLER COMPRISING A HOLLOW BASE HOUSING, WHEEL MEANS OPERATIVELY MOUNTED ON SAID HOUSING FOR MOVEMENT OF THE LATTER ALONG A SURFACE, WHEEL CONTROL MECHANISM IN THE HOLLOW OF SAID HOUSING, A VERTICAL HOUSING RIGIDLY FIXED TO SAID BASE HOUSING AND WHOLLY TO ONE SIDE THEREOF, A LIFT CARRIAGE MOUNTED FOR VERTICAL MOVEMENT IN SAID VERTICAL HOUSING, A REAR SUPPORT ARM HAVING A FIXED MOUNTING ON SAID CARRIAGE, A FRONT SUPPORT ARM HORIZONTALLY SPACED FROM SAID REAR SUPPORT ARM AND VERTICALLY MOVABLY MOUNTED RELATIVE TO SAID CARRIAGE, A SEAT SECTION MOUNTED ON SAID ARMS WHOLLY ON THE BASE HOUSING SIDE OF SAID VERTICAL HOUSING, A PIVOT CONNECTION BETWEEN SAID FRONT SUPPORT ARM AND THE FORWARD PORTION OF THE SEAT SECTION, A BACK SECTION HINGEDLY CONNECTED TO THE REAR OF SAID SEAT SECTION, A LEG SECTION HINGEDLY CONNECTED TO THE FRONT OF THE SEAT SECTION, MEANS FOR MOVING SAID BACK AND LEG SECTIONS BETWEEN A POSITION COPLANAR WITH