Patient lift

Claim 1

A LIFT AND CARRIER FOR PATIENTS COMPRISING (A) A WHEELED GENERALLY HORIZONTAL SUPPORTING BASE INCLUDING (1) A PIR OF HORIZONTALLY EXTENDING SPACED APART ELONGATED ARMS WHICH ARE OPEN AT ONE END AND PIVOTALLY CONNECTED AT THE OTHER, (B) ON ELONGATED VERTICAL STANDARD EXTENDING UPWARD FROM AID BASE, (1) SAID STANDARD BEING CENTRALLY DISPOSED BETWEEN THE ARMS OF THE BASE ADJACENT THE PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS OF THE ARMS, (C) AT LEAST TWO PARALLEL AND VERTICALLY SPACED APART ELONGATED LIFTING ARMS OF SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL EFFECTIVE LENGTH (1) EACH PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO SAID VERTICAL STANDARD A SUBSTANTIAL DISTANCE ABOVE SAID BASE, (2) EXTENDING FROM SAID STANDARD ABOVE AND BETWEEN THE EXTENDING ARMS OF SAID BASE, AND (3) MOVABLE IN A VERTICAL PLANE TO EXTEND ANGU LARLY OUTWARDLY FROM SAID STANDARD, (D) A GENERALLY CONSTANTLY HORIZONTLAL ELONGATED RIGID PATENT SUPPORTING FRAME, (1) PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO EACH OF SAID PARALLEL LIFTING ARMS, (2) EXTENDING FROM THE ENDS OF THE LIFTING ARMS SPACED FROM THE STANDARD ABOVE AND BETWEEN THE EXTENDING ARMS OF THE BASE,A ND (3) MOVABLE IN A VERTICAL PLANE WITH SIAD LIFTING ARMS TO REMAIN GENERALLY CONSTANTLY HORIZONTAL, (E) BODY SUPPORTING MEANS FOR THE PATIENT SUSPENDED FROM SIAD PATENT SUPPORTING FRAME, (1) SAID BODY SUPORTING MEANS INCLUDING (A) AN ELONGATED HORIZONTAL SUPORTING BAR, (B) SWIVEL MOUNTING MEANS SUSPENDING SAID HORIZONTAL SUPPORTING BAR FROM SAID PATIENT SUPPORTING FRAME, (I) ONE END OF SAID HORIZONTAL SUPPORTING BAR EXTENDING BEYOND SAID SWIVEL MOUNTING MEANS A GREATER DISTANCE THAN THE OTHER END OF SAID BAR, (C) AT LEAST TWO LONGITUDINALLY SPACED APART YOKE MEMBERS SUSPENDED FROM SAID SUPPORTING BAR ADJACENT THE ENDS THEREOF, AND (D) A FLEXIBLE SLING SUSPENDED FROM SAID YOKE MEMBERS BY A PLURALITY OF FLEXIBLE ANS SUBSTANTIALLY VERTICALLY EXTENDING CONNECTING LINKS, AND (F) JACK MEANS PIVOTALLY CONNECTED TO AT LEAST ONE OF SAID PARALLEL LIFTING ARMS TO PERMIT SAID ARMS TO BE RAISED.