Exercise devices – Involving user translation or physical simulation thereof – Treadmill for foot travel
Patent
1994-05-31
1995-12-19
Apley, Richard J.
Exercise devices
Involving user translation or physical simulation thereof
Treadmill for foot travel
482904, 414921, A63B 2202
Patent
active
054764297
ABSTRACT:
An exercise device for the occupant of a wheelchair acting as a treadmill which may be used for cardiac stress testing, cardiac or stroke rehabilitation, fitness training, aerobic training or educational/physical games, with the device including a generally inclined ramp having parallel sides, a forward entrance portion, a movable dolly mounted on rails on the sides of the ramp, the dolly having a pair of laterally movable caster capture plates with openings to receive the front casters of a wheelchair and angular rods cooperating with the wheelchair drive wheels acting to adjust the lateral spacing of said plates, locking means for the dolly to retain it in its forward position, separate locking means for locking the dolly in its rearward position when a wheelchair has been moved onto the ramp into operative position, a pair of enlarged openings adjacent the rear edge of the ramp, and a pair of longitudinally movable rollers beneath the ramp and movable between a rear retracted position allowing the wheelchair drive wheels to be partially received in the openings and a forward position under the drive wheels to engage and lift the drive wheels so that the user can manually rotate the wheelchair drive wheels to rotate the rollers and provide signals to a control apparatus for the desired type of training, testing or rehabilitation.
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Bigelow Clifford C.
Eck Jerome V.
Layton Terry N.
Apley Richard J.
Geppert James A.
Packer Engineering Inc.
Reichard Lynne A.
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