Airborne folding wheelchair

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1986-04-14

1987-01-27

Love, John J.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Extensible

280648, 280650, 280 474, 297130, 297417, B62B 706

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active

046390120

ABSTRACT:
A wheelchair for transporting a physically handicapped person down the narrow aisle of a commercial passenger airplane. The wheelchair comprises a fixed back frame structure having a pair of rear caster wheels mounted to the lower end thereof and a pair of front wheels mounted on an extendable front wheel frame assembly which includes a foot rest member at the front end thereof. The rear caster wheels provide directional control. The wheelchair can be manipulated into any of the following modes: (1) a folded arrangement that can be stowably secured by a plurality of catches against a vertical wall in the passenger compartment of an aircraft or the like; (2) with the wheelchair assembly still secured to the wall a seat pan is pulled down against a seat return spring and is usable as a flight attendant's seat; and (3) the folded wheelchair is completely detached from the plurality of retaining catches and fully extended to function as a wheelchair with a pair of handles extending rearwardly for an assistant's use.

REFERENCES:
patent: 751448 (1904-02-01), Barschow
patent: 2115257 (1938-04-01), Felsher
patent: 2509103 (1950-05-01), Lewis et al.
patent: 2615725 (1952-10-01), Person
patent: 2685325 (1954-08-01), Webster

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