Patent ID: 7424756

Claim:
A device for lifting a person, comprising a pair of cups for gripping a person by applying pressure force on opposite sides of the person's thorax, moving means for moving the cups towards each other under the influence of the person's weight, said moving means comprising a pair of arms, each having a portion with a substantially horizontal axis, wherein each cup is freely tiltably mounted on one of said arm portions around a tilt axis which is collinear with said substantially horizontal axis which in use extends in a substantially horizontal direction along one of the opposite sides of the person's thorax, wherein each cup has a thorax gripping surface for gripping one of the opposite sides of the person's thorax, the thorax gripping surfaces of the cups facing each other, and wherein for each cup considered in a neutral, vertical position at least a part of its thorax gripping surface is located behind its tilt axis with respect to the cup.