Walking support device

Details Walking support device Walking support device

1978-10-04

1980-02-19

Machado, Reinaldo P.

Tent, canopy, umbrella, or cane

Canes, sticks, crutches, and walking aids

Walker type

297 5, 272 703, F16M 1308, A61H 304

Patent

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041889665

ABSTRACT:
An adjustable walking support device adapted to restrain an infant or an invalid in an upright position and including a wheeled carriage through which the feet of the supported person descend to contact the ground. The support device itself includes a T-shaped seat bar cantilevered from one edge of a hinged parallelogram, the parallelogram including an internally directed spring for biasing the alignment thereof. Included further in the parallelogram and extending diagonally across the pivots thereof is a hydraulic strut for controlling the rate of descent or ascent of the seat support. Deployed above the seat support, once more in cantilever, is a U-shaped bracket for restraining the torso of the user. This same device may include, in alignment above the bracket and the seat support, a head support fixture, thus providing for control over the body alignment of incapacitated patients.

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patent: 3488088 (1970-01-01), Goldberg
patent: 3999228 (1976-12-01), Thomas
patent: 4068857 (1978-01-01), Karlsson

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