Rescue seat

Claim 1

An emergency rescue seat comprising: a flexible bottom support panel including first and second side edges and a rear edge; a flexible back support panel including first and second side edges and a bottom edge and joined along said bottom edge to said rear edge of said bottom support panel; two flexible triangular side support panels including first and second side edges and said first and second bottom edges and joined to respective ones of said first and second side edges of said bottom and back support panels, said edges of said triangular panels extending over a major portion of said edges of said bottom and back support panels; and first and second pairs of lifting means located respectively adjacent the upper corners of said first back panel and the forward corners of said bottom panel; and wherein said panels are constructed of material having sufficiently flexibility that said seat is longitudinally and transversely flexible to partially enfold the patient being carried therein, said support panels including a reinforcing strip along their respective free edges, in which said strip is continuous around the free edge of said support panels, the outer corners of said support panels are truncated and the said continuous strip passes across said truncated areas whereby to form handles which comprise said lifting means, and in which the said strip is a woven webbed material.