Devices and method for handling a person on a base

• US 4,361,918 A
• Filed: 06/22/1979
• Issued: 12/07/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kjell Roisaeth
• Original Assignee: Kjell Roisaeth
• Inventors: Roisaeth, Kjell
• Primary Examiner(s): Grosz, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US06/051,180
• Time in Patent Office: 1,264 Days
• Field of Search: 5/61, 5/62, 5/81 R, 5/81 B, 5/81 C, 5/82 R, 414/444, 414/448, 414/449, 414/486, 414/490, 414/81 R, 280/47.21, 410/51
• US Class Current: 5/81.10T
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 2200/32 lying
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 2203/78 for clamping
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/001 with means for turning-over the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/103 Transfer boards
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1036 facilitating loading and unloading of the patient, e.g. using flaps or additional tilting
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1038 Manual lifting aids, e.g. frames or racks
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1051 Flexible harnesses or slings

Abstract

Devices and method for handling persons on a base, such as a bed, operating table or the like and using a pair of flat, board-shaped arms adapted for endwise manual insertion between the base and the person. Each arm is provided with a harness for securing the person thereto. An elongate connector is mounted at ends opposite those designed for manual insertion and permits displacement of the arms thereon. Lifting of the elongate connector causes pivoting of the arms about a pivotal axis at their manually inserted ends.

Claims

1. A device for handling a person on a body-supporting base comprising a flat, board-shaped support means adapted for endwise manual insertion between said base and said person transversely of said person, said support means embodying structure engageable with means for fastening said person to said support means,

said device further comprising elongate connecting means mounted at an end of said support means opposite that designed for manual insertion and permitting displacement of said support means thereon, the device being such that lifting of said elongate connecting means causes pivoting of said support means about a first pivotal axis at its manually inserted end,

said support means being made up of two separate arms capable of being displaced towards and away from each other on said elongate connecting means and of being pivoted simultaneously on lifting the latter about their respective manually inserted ends,

said elongate connecting means comprising a rod and fastening means for detachably interconnecting said arms and said rod after having individually arranged said arms at predetermined locations between said base and said person, the device being in the form of a substantially rigid and U-shaped lifting means upon such interconnection, said fastening means comprising a sleeve-shaped guide means for axially displaceable reception of said rod and a pair of oppositely directed and spaced apart hook means for receiving said rod in a slopingly sideways and subsequent axially displaceable manner, said guide means and said hook means being mounted on respective ones of the non-manually insertable ends of said arms.

6. A device according to claim 1, wherein each such support component is freely displaceable in its unloaded condition along its respective arm while under a loading arising from the weight of said person such component is automatically locked in position relative to such arm.

2. A device for handling a person on a body-supporting base comprising a flat, board-shaped support means adapted for endwise manual insertion between said base and said person transversely of said person, said support means embodying structure engageable with means for fastening said person to said support means,

said device further comprising elongate connecting means mounted at an end of said support means opposite that designed for manual insertion an permitting displacement of said support means thereon, the device being such that lifting of said elongate connecting means causes pivoting of said support means about a first pivotal axis at its manually inserted end,

said support means being made up of two separate arms capable of being displaced towards and away from each other on said elongate connecting means and of being pivoted simultaneously on lifting the latter about their respective manually inserted ends,

each one of said arms having a support component mounted at its under side for slidable guided motion along its length, so that pivoting of said arms to an inclined position relative to said base will cause said support components to slide by virtue of their own weight down their respective arms into supporting abutment with said base where each such support component forms a second and horizontal pivotal axis for its respective arm whereby said arms can be pivoted via said elongated connecting means to a level above said base.

3. A device according to claim 2, wherein each one of said support components includes a roller holder slidably mounted to the associated one of said arms and a roller rotatably mounted to such holder on an axis of rotation transverse to the length of such arm, so that such axis of rotation will constitute said second pivotal axis.

4. A device according to claim 3, wherein each of said roller holders is connected to its respective arm via elastically yielding brackets and a friction-promoting element is disposed between an inner surface of each such roller holder and a side of the associated arm adjacent thereto, each such element normally permitting free passage of the associated roller holder along its arm while in the presence of said weight-loading between such arm and such roller holder forming a contact surface between such arm and such roller holder to counteract displacement therebetween.

5. A device according to claim 4, wherein said friction-promoting element is secured to said roller holder and is composed of a furrowed rubber plate.

7. A method of handling a person lying on a body-supporting base comprising the steps of:

(a) inserting two separate flat, board-shaped support arms between the base parallel to one another so that said support arms extend transversely of the person and the ends of such arms opposite from their inserted ends project laterally from the person and such projecting ends are disposed on the same side of the patient.

(b) fastening the person to the support means;

(c) lifting the projecting ends of said support arms to pivot the support arms about their inserted ends, thereby elevating the person above the base; and

(d) placing a support component between each of said support arms and said base in the vicinity of the person after said lifting step and then depressing the projecting ends of the support arms to pivot said arms about the support components and thus elevate the initially inserted ends of the support arms away from the base, each such support component being disposed at the projecting end of the associated one of the arms prior to said lifting step and each such component sliding downwardly along the associated arm into abutment with said base after said lifting step.