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Procedural stretcher recline controls

  • US 6,000,076 A
  • Filed: 10/23/1996
  • Issued: 12/14/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/23/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A patient-support apparatus comprisinga frame,a patient-support deck mounted to the frame and having longitudinally spaced-apart sections, at least one of the sections being a movable section that is coupled to the frame for pivoting movement relative to the other deck sections between a generally vertically-extending raised position and a lowered position through an intermediate position therebetween,a drive mechanism actuatable to move the movable section relative to the other deck sections, the drive mechanism being coupled to the frame and coupled to the movable section, the drive mechanism including a hand-operated drive for moving the movable section between the raised position and the lowered position and a mechanized drive for lowering the movable section from the raised position to the lowered position and raising the movable section from the lowered position to the raised position, andcontrol buttons operating a control system coupled to the mechanized drive, the control buttons being engageable to signal the control system to activate the mechanized drive to lower the movable section from the raised position to the lowered position, the control buttons being engageable to signal the control system to activate the mechanized drive to raise the movable section from the lowered position only to the intermediate position, and the control system being configured with a disabler so that the mechanized drive does not activate to move the movable section from the intermediate position toward the raised position in response to engagement of the control buttons.

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