Wheelchairs

Details Wheelchairs Wheelchairs

1983-08-22

1985-09-24

Peters, Jr., Joseph F.

Land vehicles

Wheeled

Extensible

280 4317, 280642, 297DIG4, B62B 302

Patent

active

045429170

ABSTRACT:
A mechanism for transferring a wheelchair through a side door opening of a motor vehicle includes a hoisting device (10,13) disposed in the vehicle and a linkage (16,17, 20) linking the chair to the hoist. Once hoisted off the ground, the wheels of the chair are retracted and the chair is swung by the parallel links (16, 17) through the door opening. The chair is suspended at a rear corner of a generally box-like frame so that final pivoting of the chair about its point of suspension not only brings the chair to its front facing position in the vehicle but simultaneously completes its sideways movement into the vehicle. The chair is then lowered into its seated position.

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patent: 2855208 (1958-10-01), Abgarian
patent: 3075789 (1963-01-01), Hott
patent: 3442532 (1969-05-01), Gardner et al.
patent: 3679223 (1972-07-01), Sakal
patent: 4266807 (1981-05-01), Griffin
patent: 4380343 (1983-04-01), Lovell et al.

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