A rail mounted patient lift
CA 2406809 A1 · Owner: Bergeron, Jean · Inventors: Bergeron, Jean
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A rail mounted patient lift comprises a ceiling mountable rail a carriage, mounted for displacement along the rail a flexible elongate support element , and power operated lifting means for extending and retracting the support element relative, to the carriage. The rail comprises a plurality of rail sections which in use are, suspended from a ceiling with a gap therebetween at a position where the rail is to, cross the path of a curtain. Each rail section has at least one pivotable flap engageable by the carriage as it moves along the rail. The flap of one of a pair of, adjoining rail sections is pivotable by the carriage as it moves in one direction to, bridge the gap between the two …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed October 7, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 7, 2022.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by October 7, 2024.
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