Equipment lift with hooking mechanism for holding a portable work station cart

摘要

A system for handling portable diagnostic equipment. The system includes a powered equipment lift sized and shaped to fit in an overland vehicle. A hooking mechanism is coupled to the bottom of the equipment lift and a portable cart is hooked to the hooking mechanism. The hooking mechanism includes an attachment tube coupled to the bottom of the equipment lift and a pivot bar is inserted through the attachment tube and freely rotatable within it. One or more hooks are coupled to the pivot bar, in one embodiment, one on each end. The hooks are designed to hold a portable workstation cart. The cart has a base platform with a plurality of wheels. In addition to acting as a shelf for heavy equipment, the main platform also supports a vertical frame. The vertical frame has two upstanding arms and supports a second shelf which is designed to accommodate medical equipment. Positioned above the second shelf is a second frame with a flip-out tray. The second frame is adjustably coupled to the arms of the vertical frame. The flip-out tray is designed to hold various devices such as lap-top computers. The hooking mechanism permits the cart to be integrated with the equipment lift and, therefore, allows two types of diagnostic equipment to be handled with one equipment lift: one type of equipment on the lift itself and the other in the workstation cart.