Rollable user-support device
AssigneeMoving Life Ltd.
InventorsRuth Reuveni, Yoav Gabriely
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Abstract
A rollable user-support device comprising a rigid frame with first legs and second legs, each with a rollable and swivelable wheel, a seat with a seat folding mechanism and/or a seat manipulation mechanism. The seat manipulation mechanism can be operable to move the seat, with a user seated thereon, between a lower rearward seating position and an elevated forward seating position, and the seat folding mechanism can be operable to move the seat between the elevated forward seating position and a folded position, at least one of the devices being connected to a swivel prevention mechanism associated with the first wheels. The device can constitute a bi-directional rollable user-support device operable in three modes.
Claims20
A foldable user-support device configurable to be positioned on a ground surface comprising:
- (a) a seat having a main, rearward seat portion and an auxiliary forward seat portion and manipulable between the following three positions:
- i) a lower rearward seating position, in which the main seat portion and the auxiliary seat portion are disposed adjacent each other and aligned to provide a pre-determined seating length along a horizontal plane;
- ii) an elevated seating position, in which the main seat portion maintains its orientation when the seat is moved from the lower rearward seating, and at least a majority of the auxiliary seat portion is lower relative to the main seat portion, and is oriented transversely thereto whereby the seating length of the seat is reduced;
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- iii) a folded position, in which the main seat portion and the auxiliary seat portion change their orientation relative to that in the lower seating position, and a length of their total projection on the horizontal plane is smaller than the reduced seating length of the seat in the elevated seating position;
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- b) a seat manipulation and folding mechanism configured to move the seat between the lower rearward seating position and the elevated seating position and between the elevated seating position and the folded position.
A bi-directional user-support device operable in, and manipulable between, a first, chair mode, in which the device is configured to accommodate a seated user facing in a first direction, and a second, rollator mode, in which the device is rollable at least in a second direction opposite to the first direction, by a standing user facing in the second direction, the device comprising:
- a frame having an upper portion and a lower portion with a pair of first legs constituting front legs of the device when in the first mode, and a pair of second legs constituting front legs of the device when the second mode, the legs having respective wheels at their distal ends and the legs extending downwardly from the upper portion;
- a seat attached to the frame and capable of being brought into a deployed position in which it can at least partially accommodate a seated user facing in the first direction and into a folded position in which at least a portion of the seat has an orientation different from that in the deployed position of the seat;
- a backrest operably connected to the frame separately from the seat so as to enable the backrest to be brought into a backrest deployed state for providing support to the user's back, in which at least a majority thereof is positioned above the frame and above the seat and into a backrest folded state in which at least a majority of the backrest extends along the frame, in a side view of the device;
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- a backrest folding mechanism operable to move the backrest between the deployed state when bringing the device into the first mode, and the folded state when bringing the device into the second mode;
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- a seat folding mechanism attaching the seat to the frame and activatable at least indirectly by the backrest folding mechanism, and operable to move the seat into the folded position when bringing the backrest into the folded state thereof and into the deployed position when bringing the backrest into the deployed state thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.