Patent ID: 7861336

Claim:
A patient transfer device comprising: a base; at least one support member attached to said base; a slide assembly attached to said support member, movable between a home position over said base and an extended position to a side of said base; and a table assembly attached to said slide assembly, having upper and lower tables surrounded by respective upper and lower belts which counter-rotate as said table assembly moves between a patient and a surface supporting the patient, and having integrated means for laterally retracting at least one side plate of said upper table while vertically separating said upper table from said lower table, wherein said lower table is fixed to said slide assembly, and said integrated means includes at least one end plate attached to said slide assembly, said end plate having at least one guide slot therein inclined upwardly toward a longitudinal centerline of said table assembly, and at least one positioning post attached to an end of said side plate, said positioning post being slidably retained in said guide slot.