Patent ID: 9642400
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: A41D,A61G

Claim:
1. A manual transfer and lift garment allowing a caregiver to easily maneuver a patient from one position to another, said garment comprising: a vest having a front exterior surface and a back exterior surface, said vest also having two armholes, a front closure with closed positioning allowing said vest to have a torso-surrounding orientation, and a neck opening the front portion of which has a V-shaped configuration when said front closure adopts said closed positioning; two elongated and substantially vertically-extending front lifting straps each having a portion thereof secured to said front exterior surface of said vest with attachment stitching, each said front lifting strap positioned at least in part between said neck opening and a different one of said armholes that results in positioning of said two front lifting straps on different sides of said front closure, each said front strap also securely attached to said front exterior surface with at least one stitched reinforcement area in a manner that creates at least one substantially vertically-extending front hand-grip lift component detached from said front exterior surface and non-adjustable in length, wherein said at least one stitched reinforcement area is positioned above and below each said hand-grip lift component; two elongated and substantially vertically-extending back lifting straps secured to said back exterior surface of said vest, each said back lifting strap having an upper portion positioned at least in part between said neck opening and a different one of said armholes, each said upper portion of each said back strap also securely attached to said back exterior surface of said vest with at least one stitched reinforcement area in a manner that creates at least one substantially vertically-extending back hand-grip lift component detached from said back exterior surface and non-adjustable in length, and attachment stitching securely connecting parts of each said back strap not creating said at least one back hand-grip lift component to said back exterior surface of said vest; and one horizontally-extending back lifting strap connected by at least one stitched reinforcement area to each of said elongated and substantially vertically-extending back lifting straps and creating at least one substantially horizontally-extending back hand-grip lift component detached from said back exterior surface and non-adjustable in length, said back lifting strap also having attachment stitching securely connecting parts thereof not creating said at least one back hand-grip lift component to said back exterior surface of said vest, wherein when said vest is worn by an ambulatory patient with said front closure adopting said closed positioning, said front and back hand-grip lift components may be used by a caregiver in varying combinations for assisting patient ambulation to prevent falls, for patient movement and transfers, and to manually raise a patient from a seated position into a standing position.