Transfer platform for a lavatory seat
OwnerLisette Dupuisinventor
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Abstract
A platform (2) for use as an aid for a handicapped person to move from the seat (32) of a wheel chair (30) to a lavatory seat (4) is secured or securable to the periphery of the seat (4) at a suitable position to allow access of the chair (30). A notch (20) is formed in the platform (2) to receive in registration a wheel (36) of the chair (30). The platform in its functional position extending substantially horizontally from the lavatory seat (4) provides a contiguous and continuous supporting surface for the person to slide across onto the lavatory seat and back, the registration of the wheel in the notch coupled with the overlying of the platform on the wheel chair seat (32) providing stability.
Claims12
A platform for the transfer of a person onto a lavatory seat from a wheeled mobile device seat, the platform being associated with the rim of the lavatory seat in such manner as to provide a supporting traversal surface substantially aligned with the upper surface of the lavatory seat, and registration means adapted in use to engage a wheel of the mobile device, the platform in use lying across and supported by the mobile device seat thereby providing a contiguous and continuous traversal surface for passage of the person from the mobile device onto the lavatory seat within a reduced distance of travel.
A platform for the transfer of a person onto a lavatory seat from a wheeled mobile device seat, the platform being fixedly secured to the rim of the lavatory seat to provide a supporting traversal surface co-planar with an upper surface of the lavatory seat, and registration means adapted in use to receive a portion of the wheel of the mobile device in positive manner, the platform in use overlying and supported by the mobile device seat thereby providing a contiguous and continuous traversal surface for the passage of the person from the mobile device onto the lavatory seat within a reduced distance of travel.
A platform for the transfer of a person onto a lavatory seat from a wheeled mobile device seat, the platform being hinged to the rim of the lavatory seat to provide in a functional position extending outwardly and substantially horizontally from the lavatory seat a supporting traversal surface co-planar with an upper surface of the lavatory seat and being capable of assuming a stowed position, and registration means adapted in use to receive a portion of the wheel of the mobile device in positive manner, the platform in use in the functional position overlying and supported by the mobile device seat thereby providing a contiguous and continuous traversal surface for the passage of the person from the mobile device onto the lavatory seat within a reduced distance of travel, the platform in its stowed position lying substantially vertically below the upper surface of the lavatory seat.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.