TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES

Classification Context

Section:

HUMAN NECESSITIES

Class:

MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE

Subclass:

TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES

Scope Notes

Glossary: Disabled person disabled persons a human being that is unable to do a basic physical task (e.g., walking) due to a physical or mental impairment/condition. Funeral device Funeral devices apparatus associated with (e.g., coffin) or for performing (e.g., casket lowering device) activities connected with the burial, cremation, entombment, or other methods of honoring or disposing of (e.g., freeze drying) the remains of the body of a deceased individual. Patient patients a human being awaiting or undergoing any form of (a) medical care (e.g., testing) or treatment by medical staff (e.g., doctors, dentists, midwifes, chiropractors) or (b) physical tending (e.g., feeding) by caretakers (e.g., hospice or nursing home staff) due to impairment. Personal conveyance Personal conveyances a vehicle-like device (e.g., wheelchairs) that is: not specifically adapted for traveling significant distances (e.g., between cities) along thoroughfares (e.g., railways, roads, sidewalks) with normal traffic (e.g., trucks), explicitly designed (i.e., not merely adaptations of a standard production vehicle) for carrying, and intended to be limited to use by, a single patient or disabled person at any given time, and potentially capable of having either its movement controlled or powered by the patient or disabled person carried by it. | Limiting references: Devices per se for enabling disabled persons to operate an apparatus or device not forming part of the body Restraining devices for the body or for body parts and restraining shirts that are used for non-surgical treatment of patients' bones or joints Equipment for beds, treatment tables, floor frames or the like for extending or stretching Appliances for aiding invalids to walk about Bathing devices for special therapeutic or hygienic purposes For bicycles specially adapted for disabled riders Inclined lifts associated with stairways for transporting disabled persons or wheelchairs Illumination of operating tables , ,

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• A61G 1/00 Stretchers
• A61G 10/00 Treatment rooms for medical purposes
• A61G 11/00 Baby-incubators; Couveuses
• A61G 12/00 Accommodation for nursing, e.g. in hospitals, not covered by groups , e.g. trolleys for transport of medicaments or food; Prescription lists
• A61G 13/00 Operating tables; Auxiliary appliances therefor
• A61G 15/00 Operating chairs; Dental chairs; Accessories specially adapted therefor, e.g. work stands
• A61G 17/00 Coffins; Funeral wrappings; Funeral urns
• A61G 19/00 Hoisting or lowering devices for coffins
• A61G 21/00 Funeral aspects of hearses or like vehicles
• A61G 3/00 Ambulance aspects of vehicles; Vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances, e.g. for facilitating access of, or for loading, wheelchairs
• A61G 5/00 Chairs or personal conveyances specially adapted for patients or disabled persons, e.g. wheelchairs
• A61G 7/00 Beds specially adapted for nursing; Devices for lifting patients or disabled persons
• A61G 9/00 Bed-pans, urinals or other sanitary devices for bed-ridden persons; Cleaning devices therefor, e.g. combined with toilet-urinals
• A61G 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass