Patent ID: 8136185

Claim:
A transport carriage for a patient-bearing surface of an operating table, comprising: a chassis; a lifting device; a pivoting frame mounted on the chassis so as to be able to pivot about a horizontal pivot axis and so as to be adjustable by means of the lifting device; two supports, each of the two supports being connected to the pivoting frame by a joint having a joint axis parallel to the pivot axis, each of the two supports having a roller with a roller axis parallel to the pivot axis and spaced apart vertically from the joint axis, and each of the two supports having at its upper end an interface for connecting to a complementary interface on the patient-bearing surface; wherein the roller on each of the two supports moves along a curved guide path on the chassis in such a way that a line, which runs through the joint axis and the roller axis, remains vertical when the pivoting frame is adjusted.