Patents Assigned to Robert J. Metcalfe
  • Apparatus for moving and/or transporting loads
    Patent number: 4255823
    Abstract: A transporter for handling invalids and the like capable of lifting patients off a bed, move them on to a toilet, move them into a bath or move them into a motor vehicle. The transporter comprises a wheeled base frame having mounted thereon means for holding a patient above the base frame. This holding means comprises lifting means for moving the patient up and down and pivot means for moving the patient in a horizontal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1979
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1981
    Assignees: Adrion J. Boyer, William R. Richardson, Robert J. Metcalfe
    Inventors: Adrian J. Boyer, William R. Richardson, Robert J. Metcalfe, Peter J. Foden