US 11,666,495 B2
Gurney transfer assist device
Mark S. Sales, Coeur D' Alene, ID (US)
Assigned to Critical Airlift Safe Loader LLC, Spokane, WA (US)
Filed by CRITICAL AIRLIFT SAFE LOADER LLC, Spokane, WA (US)
Filed on Apr. 25, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/858,601.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/840,243, filed on Apr. 29, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0337917 A1, Oct. 29, 2020
Int. Cl. A61G 3/02 (2006.01); A61G 1/04 (2006.01); B64C 27/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61G 3/0245 (2013.01) [A61G 1/04 (2013.01); B64C 27/04 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transfer assist device for transferring a stretcher carrying a patient from a wheeled gurney to a first location, and from the first location to a wheeled gurney, or to a second location, the transfer assist device comprising:
a fixed height frame having a first end portion, a second end portion, a first lateral side, a second lateral side and a predetermined height dimension between an upper edge portion and a lower edge portion;
an adjustment rack, adjacent the upper edge portion of the fixed height frame, that provides controllable movement, and positional securement, of a slidably movable bed deck frame relative to the fixed height frame between a first position wherein the slidably movable bed deck frame is positioned adjacent above, and substantially centered over, the fixed height frame, and a second extended position wherein the slidably movable bed deck frame is translated along the fixed height frame to extend endwardly outwardly from a first end portion of the fixed height frame;
the slidably movable bed deck frame is quadrilateral in peripheral configuration and has a handle end, a foot end, a first shorter lateral side and a second longer lateral side and the first and second lateral sides are parallel to one another, and are both longer in length dimension than the handle end and the foot end, and the foot end is not parallel to the handle end;
a plurality of slide brackets structurally carried on an underside of the slidably movable bed deck frame, and each of the plurality of slide brackets support at least one slide member that translates along the upper edge portion of the fixed height frame so that the slidably movable bed deck frame translates along the fixed height frame;
a latch assembly, having an operator handle, on an underside of the slidably movable bed deck frame to controllably engage with the adjustment rack carried by the fixed height frame;
a generally planar load supporting deck carried by the slidably movable bed deck frame between the handle end and the foot end and between the parallel lateral side portions; and
a puck receiver is defined in the generally planar load supporting deck between the lateral side portions and spacedly adjacent the handle end portion to releasably engage with an outwardly extending puck carried by the stretcher.