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US 2003/0213510 A1Published application
Stirrup cane
OwnerPaul B. MacCready, Bart D. Hibbs +3inventors
InventorsPaul B. MacCready, Bart D. Hibbs, Taras Kiceniuk JR., Phillip I. Tokumaru, Thomas Zambrano
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Abstract
A cane and stirrup assembly comprising an upright cane having a lower portion, a stirrup located at one side of the cane lower portion, the stirrup including a first side having connection to the cane lower portion, a second side opposite the first side, and a lowermost support for the shoe or foot or sock of the user, and a brace attached to the stirrup second side and also operatively attached to the cane above a connection to transmit loading from the stirrup second side to the cane.
Claims10
A cane and stirrup assembly comprising:
- a) an upright cane having a lower portion,
- b) a stirrup located at one side of the cane lower portion, the stirrup including a first side having connection to the cane lower portion, a second side opposite said first side, and a lowermost support for the shoe or foot or sock of the user,
- c) and a brace attached to the stirrup second side and also operatively attached to the cane above said connection to transmit loading from said stirrup second side to the cane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.