Land vehicles – Wheeled – Occupant propelled type
Patent
1986-08-18
1989-01-17
Mitchell, David M.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Occupant propelled type
272 73, 272144, 280246, 280282, B62M 114
Patent
active
047983957
ABSTRACT:
An exercising, recreational and utilitarian apparatus, particularly useful for persons handicapped as to use of their lower limbs or having cardio-pulmonary or ancillary physical problems, comprising a mobile chassis having forward and rearward ends referenced to the normal direction of its motion and mounting a forwardly and upwardly inclined adjustable support having thereon a body rest for mid and upper portions of the body of a user and immediately to the rear thereof an upwardly projecting vertically inclined forwardly facing seat which backs the buttocks of the user and induces the forward inclination of the mid and upper portions of the user's body. Immediately forward of said support, within easy and comfortable reach by the user's hands, is a transversely extending rod-shaped control bar which commonly mounts the controls for driving, steering and braking said apparatus in the course of its travel. Such controls include a pair of relatively rotatable, laterally spaced, hand manipulated levers through the medium of which said apparatus may be driven, immediately of which levers, and within the reach of fingers of hands gripping said levers, are brake controls which can be operated without removing the hands from said levers. At the same time, without removing the hands from the control levers, the rod shaped control bar is rockable about an axis extending longitudinally of said chassis for steering purposes.
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Milyard Emmert
Shaffer Don T.
Bloom Jerome P.
Diederiks, Jr. Everett G.
Mitchell David M.
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