Patent ID: 7627911

Claim:
An apparatus for handling a person, comprising a frame, a lower portion of the frame having a central concavity, a first peripheral concavity, and a second peripheral concavity, the first and second peripheral concavities connected to opposite sides of the central concavity and opening to a first direction, the central concavity opening to the opposite direction, each concavity sized and shaped to comfortably accept a human knee, the first and second peripheral concavities disposed with respect to the central concavity so that a knee inserted in the central concavity is a least partially between two knees inserted in the first and second peripheral concavities, an upper portion of the frame substantially parallel to the lower portion of the frame, the upper portion of the frame separated from the lower portion of the frame by a distance sufficient to span a person's knee from a point below mid-femur and above the knee to a point above mid-tibia and below the knee.