Patent ID: 8209802

Claim:
A combination patient support table and stretcher assembly, comprising: a patient support surface including a planar and interiorly open central section, first and second planar end extending sections being telescopically displaceable relative to first and second open ends of said central section and in order to be convertible between first extended use and second collapsed non-use arrangements; and a plurality of legs pivotally connected to and extending from corner locations associated with said end extending sections by a two part hinge assembly, an upper hinge supporting portion associated with each leg in turn communicable with a recessed cavity defined in inwardly and linearly extending fashion within an edge extending interior of said end sections such that, in said extended use arrangement with said hinge supporting portion in an outward most extended position relative to said associated recessed cavity, said legs being convertible between a first downwardly supporting position in which said assembly functions as a table top surface and second outwardly pivoting positions in which said pairs of said legs extend in opposite and parallel fashion relative to said end extending sections to further function as a patient transportable stretcher; said legs displacing inwardly within said recessed cavities and said opposite end extending sections in turn displacing within said central section in order to achieve said collapsed non-use arrangement.