EP3153142A1 - Dispositif pour activation d'une fermeture rapide d'un brancard pour ambulance - Google Patents

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EP3153142A1
EP3153142A1 EP16192462.6A EP16192462A EP3153142A1 EP 3153142 A1 EP3153142 A1 EP 3153142A1 EP 16192462 A EP16192462 A EP 16192462A EP 3153142 A1 EP3153142 A1 EP 3153142A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G3/00—Ambulance aspects of vehicles; Vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances, e.g. for facilitating access of, or for loading, wheelchairs
    • A61G3/08—Accommodating or securing wheelchairs or stretchers
    • A61G3/0816—Accommodating or securing stretchers
    • A61G3/0875—Securing stretchers, e.g. fastening means
    • A61G3/0891—Securing stretchers, e.g. fastening means by preventing longitudinal movement
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G1/00—Stretchers
    • A61G1/02—Stretchers with wheels
    • A61G1/025—Stretchers with wheels having auxiliary wheels, e.g. wheels not touching the ground in extended position
    • A61G1/0262—Stretchers with wheels having auxiliary wheels, e.g. wheels not touching the ground in extended position having loading wheels situated in the front during loading
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G1/00—Stretchers
    • A61G1/04—Parts, details or accessories, e.g. head-, foot-, or like rests specially adapted for stretchers
    • A61G1/048—Handles
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
    • A61G3/00—Ambulance aspects of vehicles; Vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances, e.g. for facilitating access of, or for loading, wheelchairs
    • A61G3/08—Accommodating or securing wheelchairs or stretchers
    • A61G3/0808—Accommodating or securing wheelchairs

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  • the present invention is inserted in the technical field relative to ambulance transport means for injured or sick people, or for those for which it is necessary or recommended to transport in perfectly-safe immobilization conditions.
  • the transport means are defined as stretchers, self-loading or otherwise, and patient transport wheelchairs.
  • the invention regards a device for safely releasing the aforesaid means, stretchers and/or patient transport wheelchairs, from a corresponding fastening provided on the walking surface of the ambulance; in particular, by using a knob which is situated on the stretcher itself or patient transport wheelchair, rather than on the fastening system.
  • Such stretchers usually comprise a light metal material frame, laterally provided with protection sides that can be pulled down, and on which an anti-shock patient bed is installed, often provided with adjustments for tilting the head and legs of the patient.
  • a mattress is installed on the bed, on which the same patient is laid down; also such mattress is designed and made for making the transport as comfortable as possible, also considering the delicate conditions of the transported patient.
  • a trolley is extended from the lower part of the frame, provided with wheels for allowing the stretcher to be pushed between the ambulance and the pick-up or unloading point of the patient.
  • the trolley is usually of retractable type, and thus it is provided with particular mechanisms adapted to make the introduction in the ambulance and its subsequent extraction simple and not tiring for the operators.
  • the stretcher When it is introduced inside the ambulance, the stretcher is fixed to the walking surface, or to the support surface thereof which is also translatable, by means of a fastening device integral with the floor.
  • the fastening device comprises a kind of slide, arranged longitudinally with respect to the travel direction of the ambulance, provided with semi-automatic locking systems for the stretcher, respectively front and back, which can be made in different ways.
  • the prior art locking system provides for a crosspiece that forms a housing, adapted to receive the axle of the front wheels of the trolley, and a foldaway locking element provided with a release control mechanism.
  • a crosspiece that forms a housing, adapted to receive the axle of the front wheels of the trolley, and a foldaway locking element provided with a release control mechanism.
  • the rear locking system of the stretcher usually provides for a fin, which is centrally extended from the lower part of the frame, intended to be inserted in a suitable housing provided in the fastening slide. Also in this case, an automatic coupling system is provided for coupling the fin to the support, releasable upon command.
  • the release mechanisms of the front and rear locking systems are made inside the fastening slide, and can be manually actuated by an actuator, usually a button actuator, arranged inside a slot-shaped housing.
  • an actuator usually a button actuator, arranged inside a slot-shaped housing.
  • Such housing is made in the rear part of the fastening slide, in a position accessible by the operator assigned to introduce and extract the stretcher from the ambulance.
  • the activation of the release of the locking systems before the extraction of the stretcher is, instead, controlled by the operator with the actuation of a button usually provided in a slot-shaped opening, made on the surface of the support in proximity to the rear end thereof.
  • the operation of searching for and actuating the release button involve time losses and poor control of the stretcher that are preferably avoided in the patient transport operations in emergency situations.
  • Object of the present invention is to propose a quick release device of a stretcher for ambulance that allows avoiding the abovementioned drawbacks.
  • Another object of the invention consists of proposing a release device entirely comprised in the stretcher itself, which can be actuated without time losses and without removing attention from the patient movement operations, giving the operator the chance to control, with both hands, the unloading of the stretcher.
  • a quick release device activatable by a stretcher or wheelchair provided for releasing the stretcher or the wheelchair from a relative fastening integral with the walking surface of the ambulance.
  • the stretcher or the wheelchair comprises a support frame of a bed on which a patient to be transported is laid and a trolley articulated to the frame.
  • a locking system for the releasable stretcher and a release mechanism controllable by means of a control device located in a housing are provided.
  • the quick release device comprises a curved tube, mounted in the lower part of the frame, in proximity to the housing, actuatable by the operator in order to bring said curved tube alternately between a rest position and a release position, in which one end of the curved tube fits in the housing for actuating the control device and disengaging the stretcher.
  • the curved tube can be actuated by a control grip arranged in proximity to the grip of the stretcher; between the control grip and the curved tube, a lever is interposed that is adapted to transfer the movement therebetween.
  • the movement for releasing the stretcher by means of curved tube pin that operates on a bar of the hook can be impressed mechanically, hydraulically or electrically.
  • reference number 1 indicates a stretcher for ambulance, in particular of self-loading type, intended to receive a patient in laid-down position and to be subsequently locked to a fastening or support 2, integral with the walking surface of the ambulance itself (not illustrated for the sake of simplicity).
  • stretcher 1 front and rear parts of the stretcher 1, respectively for indicating the parts on which the head and the feed of the patient are set.
  • the rear part of the stretcher 1 is that which, when loaded on the ambulance, is closer to the load door thereof.
  • the stretcher 1 comprises a frame 3, made with a tubular structure, laterally provided with protection sides 35 that can be pulled down and on which an anti-shock bed 4 is installed, provided with adjustments for tilting the head and legs of the patient.
  • a mattress is installed on the bed, not shown in the figures in order to render the invention more visible.
  • the frame 3 is also provided, in proximity to the rear end thereof, with an extension 33, constituted by a shaped plate which is extended towards the lower part of the frame 3 itself. Fixed to the latter, and to other portions of the frame 3, are pairs of loading wheels 34, intended to facilitate the introduction and extraction of the stretcher 1.
  • the frame 3 also forms a grip 31, like a grab bar, in order to allow an operator to easily handle the stretcher 1 during its movement.
  • a trolley 5 is extended that can be lifted and retracted, provided with wheels 6 for allowing the stretcher 1 to be pushed between the ambulance and the patient pick-up or unloading site.
  • the trolley 5 is provided with suitable known mechanisms adapted to render the introduction thereof in the ambulance and the subsequent extraction thereof simple and not tiring for the operators.
  • the fastening 2 in the non-limiting embodiment illustrated in the figures, is constituted by a plate having elongated form, against whose surface 2a the loading wheels 34 of the stretcher 1 are intended to abut during the operations of introduction and extraction thereof into/from the ambulance.
  • the fastening 2 is also provided, in an entirely known manner, with devices suitable for facilitating the introduction and extraction of the stretcher 1, and with a releasable locking system 7, for locking the stretcher 1 itself in a transport position T.
  • the locking system 7 is only partially illustrated in the figures, since its structure is not directly pertinent to the invention, and comprises a front locking device 7a, adapted to lock an axle 61 of the wheels 6, and a rear locking device 7b, adapted to receive a fin 36 (see figure 5 ) centrally mounted in the lower part of the shaped plate 33.
  • the locking device 7 provides for an activation mechanism, controllable by means of a control device, both arranged within the support 2 and not visible in the figures.
  • the device for controlling the locking device 7 is located within a housing 8, accessible from the outside through a longitudinal slot 8a made on the surface of the support 2 itself. Also the control device is not directly illustrated in the figures, and is in substance constituted by a button actuatable via pressure. According to the conventional use modes, in order to carry out the release operation, the operator inserts a finger in the slot 8a, enters into the housing 8 and presses the button of the control device, after which he/she frees the stretcher 1, dragging it towards the exit opening of the ambulance.
  • the device 10 for the quick release of the stretcher 1 obtained according to the invention is fully comprised in the stretcher 1 itself, and comprises (see figures 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 ) a driving element 20, mounted in the lower part of the frame 2 in a manner such that, when the stretcher 1 is situated locked to the support 2 in the transport position T thereof, it is positioned immediately above the slot 8a of the housing 8 ( figure 2 ).
  • the driving element 20 comprises, in particular, a curved tube 21, centrally pivoted to the frame 3 by means of a fork 29 fixed to the shaped plate 33 of the frame 3, and connected at an end thereof 21a to movement transfer members 28.
  • the tube 21 can oscillate between a rest position R ( figure 2 ), in which it is raised to the height of the plate 33 and does not interfere with the movements of the stretcher 1, and a release position S ( figure 3 ), in which the opposite non-constrained end 21b thereof is moved inside the housing 8 in order to actuate the button of the control device, and thus free the stretcher 1 from the support 2.
  • the curved tube 21 provides for a contact pin 22, which projects from the convex side of the tube 21 and is intended to engage the button of the control device during the operation of disengagement of the stretcher 1 from the support 2.
  • the release device 10 also comprises control means 25 for the driving element 20, arranged in proximity to the grip 31 of the stretcher 1.
  • control means 25 comprise a handle 26, arranged inside the same grip 31, in a position immediately accessible by a hand of the operator and manually actuatable by the same.
  • the handle 26 is slidably mounted on a block 32 provided in the frame 3, with an end thereof connected to the abovementioned movement transfer members 28.
  • the handle 26 is situated in the stable position thereof, corresponding to the rest position R of the curved tube 21, in which it is distant from the grip 31, and can be pulled by the operator in moving closer thereto, in order to actuate the tube 21 itself and bring it into the release position S.
  • the handle 26 is maintained in rest position by elastic return members 27, constituted by a helical spring axially mounted on one branch of the handle 26.
  • the abovementioned movement transfer members 28, in the illustrated embodiment, are constituted by a suitably articulated lever, whose end arms are respectively connected to one arm of the handle 26 and to one end of the tube 21. These are intended to transfer the action of the operator exerted on the handle 26 to the tube 21, in order to bring it from the rest position R to the release position S and vice versa.
  • the tube 21 can be actuated by an electromagnetic actuator, fixed to the plate 33 of the frame 3.
  • the control means 25 comprise an electric button switch, and the transfer members 28 a simple pair of electric cables.
  • a suitable rechargeable storage cell must be provided for supplying electrical energy to the electromagnetic actuator.
  • a further embodiment variant provide that the tube 21 be actuated by a pneumatic actuator, it too fixed to the plate 33, fed by a suitable container of rechargeable compressed air.
  • the control means 25 comprise a pneumatic switch, possibly drivable by a handle mechanism similar to that already described for the preferred embodiment of the invention.
  • the operation of the release device 10 is simple and quite intuitive.
  • the handle 25 With the stretcher outside the ambulance, or inside the in transport position T ( figures 1 and 2 ), the handle 25 is situated in its stable position, and maintains the tube 21 in its rest position R by means of the lever 28. In such position, when the stretcher 1 is in transport position T, the tube 21 is situated distant from the housing 8, and does not engage the button for activating the release mechanism of the stretcher 1.
  • the foot 22 mounted at the end 21b of the tube 21 engages the button for activating the release mechanism, and releases the front axle 61 and the fin 36 of the stretcher 1 from the respective front 7a and rear 7b locking devices.
  • the operator can then begin to extract the stretcher 1 from the ambulance, and simultaneously releases the handle 26, which is brought back into its stable position by the return spring 27.
  • the tube 21 is then brought back into the rest position R thereof by the lever 28.
  • a clear advantage that the invention allows obtaining is that of preventing the operator from inserting his/her hand between the stretcher 1 and the support, and his/her finger inside the housing 8, in order to actuate the release button.
  • the operator can with two hands control the stretcher and thus prevents the operation - generally carried out without looking, or in any case in a rush situation due to emergency, and hence particularly risky - from damaging the operator itself.
  • the operation of releasing the stretcher 1 carried out by means of the release device of the invention also allows, in any case, a time savings for the ambulance operators, which may prove precious in situations of particular urgency.
  • the device 10 for the release from at least one relative fastening 2 of a stretcher 1 for ambulance or of a wheelchair comprises:
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