Radiation shielded wheel patient transport

• US 4,460,833 A
• Filed: 01/22/1982
• Issued: 07/17/1984
• Est. Priority Date: 01/22/1982
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: VIC Acquisition Corporation
• Original Assignee: Victoreen, Inc. (Mallinckrodt plc)
• Inventors: Malamud, Herbert, Glasser, Herman
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Alfred E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Berman, Jack I.
• Application Number:
  US06/341,611
• Time in Patent Office: 907 Days
• Field of Search: 250/519.1, 250/515.1
• US Class Current: 250/519.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/107 Protection against radiation, e.g. shielding
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 2210/50 for radiography
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 5/10 Parts, details or accessories
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/05 Parts, details or accessories of beds devices for prevention against falling out A47C21/08, A47D7/00 ; mattresses A47C27/00
• CPC Class Codes: G21F 3/00 Shielding characterised by its physical form, e.g. granules, or shape of the material

Abstract

A shield device attached to wheel patient support apparatus between a patient and an attendant, the shield device including radiation shielding material extending across wheel patient support in such a manner that attendants are shielded from the patient.

Claims

1. In a wheelchair assembly having a pair of spaced apart side frames and a patient supporting means therebetween, a radiation shield adapted to protect an attendant pushing the wheelchair from radiation applied to a patient sitting in the wheelchair, comprising:

a flexible sheet of radiation shielding material;

a pair of spaced apart, generally vertically extending support members attached to said sheet of radiation shielding material; and

means for attaching each of said vertically extending support members to a respective one of the wheelchair side frames such that said sheet of radiation shielding material functions both as a backrest to support a patient and as a shield to protect an attendant from radiation applied to the patient, said support members and said sheet of radiation shielding material extending upwardly above the head of the patient supported by the wheelchair to provide additional shielding protection for the attendant.