Ratcheting hub wheelchair attachment

Details Ratcheting hub wheelchair attachment Ratcheting hub wheelchair attachment

1996-01-03

1998-05-05

Hurley, Kevin

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Occupant propelled type

2802501, B62M 114

Patent

active

057464375

ABSTRACT:
A ratcheting hub wheelchair attachment for permitting rotation of a wheel of a wheelchair in a selected direction. The inventive device includes a hub mounting assembly for securing to a hub of a wheel of a wheelchair. A ratchet assembly is rotatably mounted relative to the hub mounting assembly and can be secured to a wheel axle of the wheelchair for selectively permitting rotation of the hub mounting assembly and attached wheel of the wheelchair in one of the two directions of rotation of the wheel relative to the wheelchair to permit for ease of traversing of the wheelchair along an inclined slope.

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