US 10,206,847 B1Granted

Portable rehab station

AssigneeMed-Mizer, Inc.

InventorDaniel R. Tekulve

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Abstract

A portable rehab station, including left and right outriggers, each having a forward end and a rearward end, the left and right outriggers being pivotally connected at the bottom ends of the respective left and right frame members to pivot between retracted and expanded positions, the retracted position including the left and right outriggers being generally mutually parallel, and the expanded position including the left and right outriggers being spread out at an angle of between about six and ten degrees relative to each other; a front, ground-engageable caster connected to the forward end of each of the left and right outriggers and a rear, ground-engageable caster connected to the rearward end of each of the left and right outriggers; and an actuator assembly connected with the frame and operably connected with the left and right outriggers to selectively pivot the left and right outriggers between the retracted and expanded positions.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A portable rehab station configured for rehabilitation exercises by a user, comprising:

a frame having left and right frame members that have bottom ends;
left and right outriggers pivotally connected to said frame to pivot between retracted and expanded positions;
ground-engageable casters connected to said left and right outriggers;
left and right stabilizers pivotably connected to respective left and right outriggers to pivot between an up, unlocked position and a down, locked position, the down, locked position including the stabilizers being in engagement with a ground to resist free rolling movement of the portable rehab station along the ground;
and
an actuator assembly having a control plate journaled to said frame for rotation about an axis and left and right outrigger links connected between the control plate and said left and right outriggers, and wherein rotation of the control plate moves said left and right outriggers between the retracted and expanded positions and wherein said actuator assembly further includes left and right stabilizer links connected between the control plate and said left and right stabilizers, and wherein rotation of the control plate moves said left and right stabilizers, via the left and right stabilizer links, between the up, unlocked position and the down, locked position.

3 more elements

A method for moving and securing a portable rehab station configured for rehabilitation exercises by a user comprising the steps of:

providing a portable rehab station configured for rehabilitation exercises by a user, the portable rehab station including a frame having left and right frame members;
left and right outriggers pivotally connected to the frame to pivot between retracted and expanded positions;
ground-engageable casters connected to the left and right outriggers;
left and right stabilizers pivotably connected to respective left and right outriggers to pivot between an up, unlocked position and a down, locked position in engagement with a ground;
and an actuator assembly having a control plate journaled to the frame for rotation about an axis, left and right outrigger links connected between the control plate and the left and right outriggers, and left and right stabilizer links connected between the control plate and the left and right stabilizers;
exerting a lateral force against the portable rehab station to move the station along a ground, to a desired location, via its casters while the casters are engaged with the ground;
stabilizing the portable rehab station by rotating the control plate to pivot the outriggers, via the left and right outrigger links, from their retracted to their expanded positions.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/218,791Filed 25 Jul 2016 · continuation
Priority: 7 Oct 2013
Granted: 19 Feb 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

A61H 3/00
Appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk about
A61H 3/008
Appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk about: using suspension devices for supporting the body in an upright walking or…
A61H 3/04
Appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk about: wheeled walking aids for patients or disabled persons
A63B 22/00
Exercising apparatus specially adapted for conditioning the cardio-vascular system, for training agility

Family

Application61/887,974Us provisional application · filed 7 Oct 2013
Application14/508,558Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Oct 2014
US 9,398,995 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2015/0099614 A1Published application
US 10,206,847 B1This patent

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