Patent ID: 6820292
Filing Date: 2004-11-23
Classification: A61G,Y10S

Abstract:
A transfer device for transferring a patient from a first support surface to a second support surface placed alongside the first support surface, the device comprising a pair of elongated, laterally spaced apart tubes of material coupled to each other, each tube being configured to be placed longitudinally under the patient on the first support surface and extending along at least a portion of the patient's body, each tube being made of sheet of material having an inside surface of relatively low friction and an outside surface of relatively high friction, each tube being flattened when placed under a patient to have an upper run of the relatively low friction surface facing downwardly to engage a lower run of the relatively low friction surface facing upwardly such that the upper and lower runs can slide smoothly transversely as the patient is moved from the first support surface to the second support surface, the tubes being configured to be positioned on opposite sides of the first support surface such that one of the tubes provides movement of the patient to and from one side of the first support surface and such that other of the tubes provides movement of the patient to and from the other side of the first support surface.