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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2008
Martin W. Stryker, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Jeffrey L. Lewandowski, Delton, MI (US);
James T. Thwaites, Delton, MI (US);
Richard J. Bartow, Battle Creek, MI (US);
Scott Smieja, Ripon, WI (US);
David P. Marcusen, Appleton, WI (US);
Martin W. Stryker, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Jeffrey L. Lewandowski, Delton, MI (US);
James T. Thwaites, Delton, MI (US);
Richard J. Bartow, Battle Creek, MI (US);
Scott Smieja, Ripon, WI (US);
David P. Marcusen, Appleton, WI (US);
Stryker Corporation, Kalamazoo, MI (US);
Abstract
A retractor assembly for engaging a sheet on which a patient is disposed includes a transverse member and a pair of tethers coupled to the transverse member and extending from the transverse member for coupling to a winding assembly. A pair of sheet clamps are mounted to the transverse member, which are spaced apart along the longitudinal axis of the transverse member in a fixed spaced relationship for engaging a sheet at two points spaced along the longitudinal axis. The transverse member maintains the sheet clamps in their fixed spaced relationship whereby the sheet clamps resist inward migration toward each other when being used to handle a patient on a sheet.