GB2417022A - Mortuary tray retriever - Google Patents

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GB2417022A
GB2417022A GB0417968A GB0417968A GB2417022A GB 2417022 A GB2417022 A GB 2417022A GB 0417968 A GB0417968 A GB 0417968A GB 0417968 A GB0417968 A GB 0417968A GB 2417022 A GB2417022 A GB 2417022A
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Roger Williams
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WILMAT HANDLING Co Ltd
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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
    • A61G19/00—Hoisting or lowering devices for coffins
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66F—HOISTING, LIFTING, HAULING OR PUSHING, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, e.g. DEVICES WHICH APPLY A LIFTING OR PUSHING FORCE DIRECTLY TO THE SURFACE OF A LOAD
    • B66F9/00—Devices for lifting or lowering bulky or heavy goods for loading or unloading purposes
    • B66F9/06—Devices for lifting or lowering bulky or heavy goods for loading or unloading purposes movable, with their loads, on wheels or the like, e.g. fork-lift trucks
    • B66F9/075—Constructional features or details
    • B66F9/12—Platforms; Forks; Other load supporting or gripping members
    • B66F9/19—Additional means for facilitating unloading
    • B66F9/195—Additional means for facilitating unloading for pushing the load

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Abstract

A mortuary tray retriever includes an attachment frame, which can be mounted to an existing load handling machine. The frame provides both support and powered forwards and backward propulsion for mortuary body trays. The trays can then be transferred to and from their storage cabinets without any manual intervention simply by the selection of direction and transfer speed switches. The retriever is battery powered. The retriever may include a digital weigh scale for the measurements of the applied load (a deceased body). The retriever can handle loads up to and including 320kg. The retriever comprises a gripper carried by an endless conveyor belt.

Description

24 1 7022
MORTUARY TRAY RETRIEVER
The invention relates to a handling aid for the movement of mortuary trays into and out of the existing storage cabinets. The trays when laden support deceased human bodies. To be used in hospital morgues and undertakers.
Manual type trolleys already exist, but suffer from two distinct disadvantages.
One being the manual effort for an operator to push and pull the dead weight exceeds the health and safety guidelines. Another is being unable to attain the lowest and highest shelf height in some situations.
The object of this invention is to provide the pushing and pulling force for the operator at the push of a button. And allow easier access to all shelf heights without using steps or other aids.
Accordingly the handling aid provides a battery-powered attachment which can be mounted to most existing handling equipment allowing easy handling of deceased bodies.
Preferably the aid is made of metal and plastic materials.
A preferred embodiment of the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings in which: FIGURE 1 shows an existing mortuary body tray; FIGURE 2 shows a side view of the tray sat on the handling aid attachment; FIGURE 3 is a section through the attachment showing how the tray sits on rollers; FIGURE 4 shows the handling aid attachment mounted to an existing standard battery powered truck; FIGURE 5 shows the truck and attachment combination at the lowest shelf height; FIGURE 6 shows the truck and attachment combination at the highest shelf height.
As shown in Figure 4, battery power is provided to power a push pull arm forwards and backwards along a support frame which grabs the body tray in Figure 1 and is able to retrieve and place back to and from the storage cabinets as shown in Figures 5 and 6.
The handling aid has been designed as an attachment which when provided with either a 12 or 24 Volt DC battery supply can operate with many existing handling trucks.
Power to the push pull grab is provided via a DC motor gearbox and chain slide system.
The system can also incorporate a digital weigh scale system. To display the weight of the deceased body. This system includes a load cell and a display again powered from the same 12 or 24 Volt DC battery supply.

Claims (10)

1. A mortuary tray retrieving attachment frame which can be secured to an existing handling truck incorporating a powered push pull body tray grab so that handling of deceased bodies requires no manual effort to transfer to and from their storage cabinets.
2. An attachment as claimed in Claim 1 where the existing mortuary body trays are propelled under power.
3. An attachment as claimed in Claim 1 where the operator provides no manual effort to transfer the body trays to and from the storage cabinets.
4. An attachment as claimed in claim 1 that is fitted to existing handling machines.
5. An attachment as claimed in claim 1 that is battery powered.
6. An attachment as claimed in claim 1 that the body tray can handled safely on.
7. An attachment as claimed in claim 1 that has a grab hitch to secure the body trays.
8. An attachment as claimed in claim 1 that can incorporate if so desired a digital weigh scale device.
9. A retriever as claimed in any preceding claim which is made from metal and plastic materials.
10. A mortuary tray retrieving attachment as herein described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
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Cited By (4)

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WO2012114003A1 (en) * 2011-02-25 2012-08-30 Rotobloc-Psp Sarl Device for moving a load around by pushing and pulling and handling vehicle equipped with such a device
CN102871821A (en) * 2012-09-26 2013-01-16 黑龙江省机械科学研究院 Conveying equipment for three-dimensional storage of remains in funeral industry
ITTO20130528A1 (en) * 2013-06-26 2014-12-27 Massimo Zanotti SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANIPULATION OF LIVE POULTRY
ITUA20162084A1 (en) * 2016-03-29 2017-09-29 Vezzani Spa Equipment to introduce and extract a coffin from a niche

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GB2291400A (en) * 1993-03-11 1996-01-24 Roberts Engineering Pty Ltd Mining pan handling device
US20040120798A1 (en) * 2002-12-18 2004-06-24 Davis David T. Cadaver manipulation system and method

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GB2022399A (en) * 1978-05-26 1979-12-19 Ppp Ltd Racking systems
DE3411195A1 (en) * 1984-03-27 1985-10-10 Wolfgang 4750 Unna-Massen Theobald Retraction and extension device and action for material containers
GB2291400A (en) * 1993-03-11 1996-01-24 Roberts Engineering Pty Ltd Mining pan handling device
DE4339056A1 (en) * 1993-11-16 1995-05-18 Stahlbau Huber Gmbh Control unit for fully automatic small part store
US20040120798A1 (en) * 2002-12-18 2004-06-24 Davis David T. Cadaver manipulation system and method

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
WO2012114003A1 (en) * 2011-02-25 2012-08-30 Rotobloc-Psp Sarl Device for moving a load around by pushing and pulling and handling vehicle equipped with such a device
FR2972003A1 (en) * 2011-02-25 2012-08-31 Rotobloc Psp DEVICE FOR TRANSFERRING A PUSHED AND TRACTION LOAD AND HANDLING EQUIPMENT EQUIPPED WITH SUCH A DEVICE
CN102871821A (en) * 2012-09-26 2013-01-16 黑龙江省机械科学研究院 Conveying equipment for three-dimensional storage of remains in funeral industry
CN102871821B (en) * 2012-09-26 2014-12-10 黑龙江省机械科学研究院 Conveying equipment for three-dimensional storage of remains in funeral industry
ITTO20130528A1 (en) * 2013-06-26 2014-12-27 Massimo Zanotti SYSTEM AND METHOD OF MANIPULATION OF LIVE POULTRY
EP2818044A1 (en) * 2013-06-26 2014-12-31 Massimo Zanotti A system and method for handling live poultry
WO2014207680A1 (en) * 2013-06-26 2014-12-31 Massimo Zanotti A system and method for handling live poultry
ITUA20162084A1 (en) * 2016-03-29 2017-09-29 Vezzani Spa Equipment to introduce and extract a coffin from a niche

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