Process for immersing in a swimming pool disabled persons using a wheelchair
AssigneeThe Cheney Company
InventorKeith Krumbeck
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Abstract
A swimming pool lift installation for the handicapped employs a platform for carrying a wheelchair that is lowered and elevated with the platform so that a handicapped person can sit on his chair and be lowered into the pool for swimming away from the chair and can leave the pool by swimming back into the wheelchair. The chair is releasably secured to the platform so that there is no danger of it being rendered unstable by its buoyancy in the water and so that it can be wheeled on and off the platform. A water hydraulic system operates the lift to avoid contamination of the pool.
Claims3
A process of immersing disabled persons who use a wheel chair into a swimming pool for swimming therein, said process comprising:
- wheeling a wheel chair with a disabled person thereon onto a chair lift;
- attaching the chair securely to the lift so that the chair remains secure and stable against buoyancy effects when immersed in the pool and the disabled person swims away from the chair;
- lowering the lift and attached chair with disabled person into the pool and enabling the person to swim away from the attached chair while the unoccupied chair remains attached to the lift in a secure and stable condition so that the unoccupied chair can be elevated or the person can swim back to the immersed chair and reseat himself thereon;
- elevating the chair lift with the unoccupied attached chair while the person is swimming in the pool, lowering the chair lift and unoccupied attached chair in order to enable the swimmer to return to the chair, and, thereupon, elevating the chair and swimmer from the pool;
- whereby disabled persons can be immersed in a swimming pool within their individual capabilities to swim away from and return to the secured wheel chairs without the assistance of an attendant.
A process of immersing disabled persons who use a wheel chair into a swimming pool for swimming therein, said process comprising:
- wheeling a wheel chair with a disabled person thereon onto a chair lift;
- attaching the chair securely to the lift so that the chair remains secure and stable against buoyancy effects when immersed in the pool and the disabled person swims away from the chair;
- lowering the lift and attached chair with the disabled person into the pool and enabling the person to swim away from the attached chair while the unoccupied chair remains attached to the lift in a secure and stable condition so that the unoccupied chair can be elevated or the person can swim back to the immersed chair and reseat himself thereon;
- and upon the swimmer's return to the chair on the lift, elevating the chair lift with the disabled person and chair from the pool, detaching the chair from the lift, and wheeling the chair and disabled person off the lift;
- whereby disabled persons can be immersed in a swimming pool within their individual capabilities to swim away from and return to the secured wheel chairs without the assistance of an attendant.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.