Apparatus to aid walking
AssigneeUEA Enterprises Limited
InventorsNicola Joanne Hancock, Valerie Moyra Pomeroy, David Geoffrey Robinson
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Abstract
An apparatus to aid walking, the apparatus including a base unit, housing a motor; and further including first and second horizontally orientated foot supports, mounted for back and forth parallel motion relative to the base unit; the foot supports each being operably connected to the motor; each foot support including a plurality of planar members, including a base plate, an intermediate plate and a foot plate having an upper surface to receive a user's foot, the intermediate plate being pivotally linked at a first end to the base plate and at a second end to the foot plate.
Claims18
An apparatus to aid walking, the apparatus comprising a base unit, housing a motor;
- and further comprising first and second horizontally orientated foot supports, mounted for back and forth parallel motion relative to the base unit;
- the foot supports each being operably connected to the motor;
- each foot support comprising a plurality of planar members arranged in a Z-plate mechanism including a base plate, an intermediate plate and a foot plate having an upper surface adapted to receive a user's foot, each of the intermediate plates being pivotally linked at a first end to its respective base plate and at a second end to its respective foot plate, wherein each of the intermediate plates are pivotally coupled to an underside of its respective foot plate part-way between a centre and a front end of its respective foot plate.
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