Powered wheelchair mover
AssigneeStaxi Corporation
InventorsAndrew Hart, Lee John Hancox
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Abstract
An apparatus for moving a wheelchair, the apparatus having a base including a drive motor drivingly connected to a drive wheel and a first forwardly extending lower arm member engageable with the wheelchair when the wheelchair is in the engageable position. The first lower arm member is operable between a lowered position in which the first lower arm member is disengaged from the wheelchair and a raised position in which the first lower arm engages the wheelchair. The first lower arm member has a first stop member whereby, when the first lower arm member is in the raised position and engages the wheelchair, and when the wheelchair is on a forwardly extending declined surface, the first stop member inhibits forward motion of the wheelchair.
Claims20
An apparatus for moving a wheelchair, the wheelchair having a front end, a rear end and first and second laterally opposed sides, the wheelchair is positionable in front of the apparatus in an engageable position, the apparatus comprising:
- (a) a base comprising a drive motor drivingly connected to a drive wheel and a first forwardly extending lower arm member engageable with the wheelchair when the wheelchair is in the engageable position wherein the first lower arm member is operable between a lowered position in which the first lower arm member is disengaged from the wheelchair and, when the wheelchair is in the engageable position, a raised position in which the first lower arm engages the wheelchair, the first lower arm member has a first stop member whereby, when the first lower arm member is in the raised position and engages the wheelchair, and when the wheelchair is on a forwardly extending declined surface, the first stop member inhibits forward motion of the wheelchair;
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- (b) a grip portion provided on a driving linkage wherein the driving linkage is drivingly connected to the base.
An apparatus for moving a wheelchair, the wheelchair having a front end, a rear end, first and second laterally opposed sides, and a luggage rack, the luggage rack having a cross member, the wheelchair is positionable in front of the apparatus in an engageable position, the apparatus comprising:
- (a) a base comprising a drive motor drivingly connected to a drive wheel, at least one steerable wheel and an upwardly extending stop member wherein, when the wheelchair is in the engageable position, the upwardly extending stop member is positionable forward of the cross member of the luggage rack and at an elevation of the cross member of the luggage rack whereby when the wheelchair is on a forwardly extending declined surface forward motion of the wheelchair is inhibited by engagement between the cross member and the upwardly extending stop member;
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- (b) a grip portion provided on a driving linkage wherein the driving linkage is drivingly connected to the base.
The apparatus of claim 20 wherein the upwardly extending stop member comprises a vertically translatable rod.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.