WO1985003431A1

WO1985003431A1 - Cloth carrier intended to the lift and transfer of a human body

Info

Publication number: WO1985003431A1
Application number: PCT/FR1985/000019
Authority: WO
Inventors: André Petitet
Original assignee: Petitet Andre
Priority date: 1984-02-07
Filing date: 1985-02-06
Publication date: 1985-08-15
Also published as: FR2559055A1; AU3932585A; EP0152349A3; BR8505158A; EP0152349B1; ATE42459T1; FR2559055B1; EP0152349A2; DE3569669D1; JPS61501551A

Abstract

Cloth carrier intended to lift and transfer an inert human body, injured or ill, comprising a carrying plane and a plurality of handles. The carrying plane is comprised of two rectangular and similar cloth portions (1 and 2) arranged one on the other and made integral by a stitching (3) forming a grid, the handles (4) are comprised of cloth bands and are fixed to the edge of the carrying plane independently from each other, symmetrically with respect to the longitudinal axis of the carrier so that, on each side, a handle is immediately at the vicinity of each hand and two other handles at 1/3 and 7-12 approximately, respectively, of the length. The carrier avoids any handling of the body between the moment when the body is taken in charge and the medical attendance place.

Description

Canvas rack for lifting and transferring a human body

The present invention relates to a device intended to move the body of a person, and more particularly a rack making it possible to lift, transfer or even transport over a short distance an inert human body, injured or sick, tending to facilitate handling in hospital formations. and in extra-hospital spaces.

Caring for an inert, injured or sick human body is an ongoing problem.

In this area, we know that the most commonly accepted and widely developed equipment is based on the principle of stretcher or stretcher. At the same time, hospital technicians and first aid technicians have developed relatively more efficient and sophisticated devices and equipment, but they are costly and even demanding in terms of maintenance.

For a long time, we have been looking for a simple and above all interchangeable, "trivialized" means, going so far as to recommend the creation of real "banks" of equipment, essentially focused on hospital training. Indeed these are the logical outcome of the journey from the places of care and on the other hand the natural space in which the injured or the sick are called to be lifted, transferred, transported from a location to a other, from one material to another, or even from one establishment to another more specialized.

The AFNOR NF S 90 311 standard aimed to ensure that the stretcher, considered to be closely related to the transported human body, was interchangeable, thus allowing easy exchange, at all levels and at all stages of the extra journey. then intra-hospital, between an "empty" stretcher and the "loaded" stretcher.

However, the multiplicity of rescue and care services has the consequence of complicating and sophisticated means in terms of materials and men, and this, for the best treatment of the great emergency, fortunately infrequent, ignoring in this simple transport and daily manipulations. Thus today, no logistical "trivialization" of the material is carried out, each system wanting to recover at each stage its own equipment, most of the time very expensive, and thereby breaking each time the unity between the human body transported and the means used for its transport. The patient or the injured person therefore undergoes from six to ten transfers, between various materials since his care, throughout his extra-hospital transport, upon admission to hospital training and during his intra-hospital journey. These transfers are carried out by one, two, exceptionally three or four manipulators, by the force of their hands and arms, in the absence of interchangeability between the materials. This results in a whole series of manipulations, uncomfortable for the manipulators and often harmful to the injured or ill being manipulated.

Solutions aimed at allowing simplified handling have been proposed, and described for example in French patent 2,465,475. The device described in this patent comprises a canvas in which handles are formed by cutting the canvas and strengthening the edges; it is intended to replace a stretcher, but is not very advantageous by its structure, and it fishes by the regularity of the arrangement of the handles along the carrying plane, which does not respect the non-homogeneous distribution of the weight of the different structures human anatomical. Thus manipulation using this device or those derived therefrom does it cause an imbalance and unequal efforts on the part of those who handle it, making the maneuver random or even uncomfortable, as much for the one who is worn as for those who carry it out. US Patent 2,788,530 describes a relatively complex rescue device comprising a reinforced canvas on its edges, supplemented by regularly distributed handles. Besides its complexity, this device has the same drawbacks as above. The fact also that the straps forming handles pass under the carrying plane for the sake of better support, in reality imposes constraints on the body placed on it which do not necessarily correspond to the natural support points, which are variable of a body to the other. The industrial manufacture of such devices in materials based on various materials including plastic, generates rapid degradation of this type of vulnerable material in its material and at the seams or welds, and, in any case, prohibits maintenance by machine wash at 100 degrees, sterilization necessary, essential condition for. hospital use.

All the other known devices are either unsuitable for the plurality of situations, or only suitable for a specific type of situation.

The present invention relates to a rack avoiding the aforementioned drawbacks and making it possible to ensure that an inert human body, injured or sick, is placed once and for all thereon, reducing handling to a minimum (two) between taking load and placing either on the hospital reception bed or on the reception equipment at the technical platform made necessary by its condition (radiology, dressing, explorations, operating room).

The invention also relates to a canvas rack simple and inexpensive to manufacture, easy to use for lift and transfer a body, and if necessary to transport it for a short distance.

The invention also relates to a rack made entirely of easy-care fabric by washing at high temperature or autoclave, allowing its use in a hospital environment.

The canvas rack according to the invention is of the type comprising a carrying plane associated with a plurality of handles, and is distinguished in particular in that the carrying plane consists of two identical rectangular fabrics placed one on the other and secured by an overstitching along a grid, the handles are made of strips of canvas and are fixed to the edge of the carrying plane independently of each other, symmetrically with respect to the longitudinal axis of the rack, so that, on each side , one handle is' immediately near each end and two other handles approximately 1/3 and 7/12, respectively, of the length.

According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the handles, eight in number, are fixed on the edges of the carrying plane, between the two fabrics, by topstitching, four handles on each languor. If necessary, one or two additional handles are fixed in the same way at each end, on the short sides of the partition plane.

According to an advantageous embodiment, the rack has a dimension of 1.80mx0.55m and in this case the extreme handles are placed about 5cm from the end of the length and an interval of 30cm separates the second handle from the first, and the third of the second, while each handle, in the form of a half-loop occupies a width of approximately 15cm, these values being able to vary from 2 to 3cm. It is important, in accordance with the invention, that the rack be made up of two identical fabrics, for example of linen and cotton, fixed one on the other by a stitching in grid. This arrangement in fact provides excellent results with regard to strength and dimensional stability. In addition, the edges of each fabric are folded inwards, so that the fold of one of the fabrics is against the fold of the other, and the handles are fixed between these folds. This arrangement provides sufficient resistance.

According to the invention, it may be advantageous to fold the edges of each fabric along the four sides so as to form a reinforcement at the edge of the carrying plane, which improves the resistance of the rack and its retention when it is lifted by the handles. . According to a variant, this reinforcement can be obtained by fixing one or more strips of fabrics on the edge of the carrying plane, on one of the fabrics on both. The fixing is done by stitching.

In this variant in particular, it is advantageous to fix this reinforcement so that it forms a sheath, on each edge of the carrying plane, allowing the installation of an accessory means of stiffening such as bar or spar. This sheath may have an opening in its central part, along the length of the rack, and in this case the side members are formed by two bars which are assembled by interlocking or clipping in the middle. The opening allows the two bars to be unlocked.

According to the invention, the drawbacks of the known devices are avoided, the rack comprising a carrying plane produced with two identical pieces of canvas, sewn together face to face in a grid pattern, providing a space at the edge, where at least eight are introduced. handles independent of each other (four along each large side of the carrying plane), made in the same type of canvas, which are caught in the topstitching and the reinforcement folds of the selvedges, giving the original homogeneity of the device.

No other material, with the exception of natural thread used for topstitching, enters into the making of the device, giving it solidity and possibility of being machine washed at 100 ° C with the addition of a sanitizing liquid (water bleach for example), or even to be sterilized in an autoclave in the same way as surgical linen.

By folding the part of the rack located between the most widely spaced consecutive handles and making the handles coincide very exactly between them, we obtain a reduction in the length of the carrying plane, allowing lifting, transfer and possible transport over a short distance from a child's body. The fact that it can be folded in its entirety therefore easily stored. is an added advantage.

Other characteristics and advantages of the invention will emerge from the description which follows, given solely by way of nonlimiting example with reference to the appended drawing in which:

Figure 1 shows the device as a whole, showing in particular the exact position, not evenly spaced, of the handles, along the carrying plane.

FIG. 2 represents a first variant of the device in that it comprises additional handles along the two short sides of the carrying plane, allowing the translation of one material to another placed in its extension, without lifting. Figure 3 shows the establishment of a handle between the two pieces of canvas forming the carrying plane and the fixing system thereof.

Figure 4 shows a second variant of the device according to Figure 1 in that it allows the addition of stiffening means of the assembly.

Figure 5 shows the second variant with the stiffening means in place.

Figure 6 and Figure 7 show the detail of the mounting of the stiffening means between them.

The device according to Figures 1 and 2, involves manipulation by four people, or possibly three. However, the number of people available can be reduced to two. In this case, means are provided for stiffening the device according to the figures from 4 to 7, allowing handling by only two people.

As shown in the figures, the rack according to the invention comprises two identical rectangular fabrics (1 and 2) fixed one on the other by an over-stitching (3) according to a grid in lines parallel to the sides. Four handles (4) are fixed on each side, and if necessary two additional handles are fixed at each end (fig. 2).

Figure 3 shows, in an enlarged view, the fixing of the handles. The edges of the fabrics (1) and (2) are folded inward, and the legs of the handle (4) are placed between the folds (5) and (6), then the assembly is secured by stitching. According to the second variant of FIG. 4, along the four sides of the carrying plane, at a short distance from the selvedges, strips of fabric (7) and (8) forming a sheath for the passage of the stiffening means as shown on Figure 5. These strips cut from the same material as the device are overstitched so as to provide at the four corners of the surface of the carrying plane a free angle allowing the passage and mounting of the stiffening means. These bands can be replaced by pieces of tubular fabric previously prepared, made from a material identical or compatible with that of the device.

The stiffening means according to FIGS. 6 and 7 consist of two longitudinal members (9) which can be inserted in the pieces of fabric forming a sheath arranged along the two long sides of the carrying plane and two transverse pieces (10), which can fit into the pieces of fabric forming a sheath arranged along the two short sides of the carrying plane and cooperating with the two side members (9) to form the stiffening frame. These transverse parts (10) consist of a tubular element. central (11) and two flat parts, bent in a semicircle (12) intended to adapt very exactly to the diameter of the side members (9) without the need to use fixing means. The stiffening means are made of a rigid and light metallic material, for example aluminum or duralumin.

The device according to Figures 1,2 and 4 is compatible with all equipment meeting the AFNOR NF S 90 311 standard, thus opening up the possibility of immediate adaptation and easy interchangeability.

The main use envisaged for the invention is intra-hospital. Use in non-hospital spaces for the collection of injured people or taking care of patients and transporting them to hospital facilities is easily conceivable and highly desirable for the sake of standardization, harmonization and interchangeability of resources.

The canvas rack of the present invention can also be used in the handling of mortal remains.

Claims

1. Canvas rack intended to lift and transfer an inert human body, injured or sick, comprising a carrying plane and a plurality of handles, characterized in that the carrying plane, consists of two identical rectangular fabrics placed one on the other and secured by a stitching along a grid, the handles are made of strips of canvas and are fixed to the edge of the carrying plane independently of each other, symmetrically with respect to the longitudinal axis of the rack, so that, on each side, one handle is immediately near each end and two other handles approximately 1/3 and 7/12, respectively, of the length.

2. Rack according to claim 1, characterized in that the handles are fixed on the edges of the carrying plane, between the two fabrics, by stitching.

3. Rack according to claim 2, characterized in that it comprises four handles arranged on each length.

4. Rack according to any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the edges of each fabric are folded so as to form a reinforcement at the edge of the carrying plane.

5. Rack according to claim 4, characterized in that the edges are folded inwards, the folds of each fabric facing each other, and the handles are fixed between these folds.

6. Rack according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that reinforcing strips are fixed by stitching on at least one of the fabrics, on the edge of the carrying plane.

7. Rack according to claim 6, characterized in that the reinforcements at the edge of the carrying plane form a sheath allowing the establishment of a stiffening means.

8. Rack according to claim 7, characterized in that the stiffening means consists of two longitudinal bars on which are supported two transverse bars.