Folding wheelchair

Details Folding wheelchair Folding wheelchair

1985-12-19

1987-02-03

Love, John J.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Extensible

280648, 280650, 280 474, 297130, 297417, B62B 708

Patent

active

046405259

ABSTRACT:
A folding chair assembly for dual use as a wheelchair or a flight attendant's seat onboard a commercial passenger airplane. The folding chair assembly can be manipulated into any of the following modes: (1) fully retracted into a compact assembly that can be stowably secured by a plurality of catches against a vertical wall in the passenger compartment of an aircraft; (2) with the chair assembly still secured to the wall, the seat pan is pulled down against a seat return spring and is usable as a flight attendant's seat; and (3) the folded chair assembly is completely detached from the plurality of retaining catches and fully extended to function as a wheelchair that is usable down the aisles of commercial passenger aircraft.

REFERENCES:
patent: 751448 (1904-02-01), Barschow
patent: 2585721 (1952-02-01), Bachand
patent: 2615725 (1952-10-01), Person
patent: 2685325 (1954-08-01), Webster
patent: 3215469 (1965-11-01), Wamsley

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