Exercising device for wheel chair confined persons

Details Exercising device for wheel chair confined persons Exercising device for wheel chair confined persons

1974-09-27

1976-12-28

Pinkham, Richard C.

Undertaking

248441R, A63B 2100

Patent

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039997626

ABSTRACT:
A portable device, which in a first configuration permits a person having the use of his arms, but due to a disability of his legs is confined to a wheel chair, to pull himself to an erect supported position on the device, and thereafter, exercise. The device is capable of being dismantled for the elements thereof to nest together in a second configuration, with the device when in the second configuration, occupying a minimum of space and capable of being easily transported from one location to another. The device includes a base assembly having a rigid sheet wherein the sheet has forward, rearward and intermediate pairs of transversely aligned upstanding studs, a U-shaped rigid member that has a pair of spaced legs, a web, forward, rearward, and intermediate pairs of transversely aligned sleeves that project downwardly from the rigid member. Said sleeves are vertically aligned with the studs. The device, when assembled in a first configuration has detachable tubes connecting the aligned sleeves and studs. When the device is disassembled to a second configuration the sleeves and studs nest together. A pair of laterally spaced crutch like members are disposed adjacent the intermediate first tubes when the device is in the first configuration. A cushion is positioned between the intermediate tubes to receive the knees of a user when he is raising himself to a position so that he may use the crutch-like member. The cushion is also used when the user is lowering himself from the crutch like members to an adjacent wheel chair.

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patent: 2556121 (1951-06-01), Thomas
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patent: 3442276 (1969-05-01), Edwards et al.
patent: 3570477 (1971-03-01), Scrivner

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