Wheelchair
AssigneeThe School of Bioengineering and Biophysics of the University of Dundee
InventorNigel G. Shapcott
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Abstract
A wheelchair having at least one pivotal wheel which is steerable in a mar which does not interfere with the manual driving of the wheelchair, by providing a pair of levers linked to the pivotal wheel or wheels and actuable by movement of the upper body of a user of the chair, each lever being movable to steer the wheelchair in one respective direction only.
Claims8
A wheelchair having a frame, a seat on the frame, road wheels mounted on axles on the frame, two of the road wheels being pivotal independently of one another about axes normal to their respective axes of rotation, and steering mechanisms one for each of the pivotal road wheels and independent of one another, the steering mechanisms arranged to be actuated by movement of the upper body of an occupant of the seat, one of the steering mechanisms having a lever actuatable to pivot its respective pivotal road wheel in one direction only and the other steering mechanism having a lever actuatable to pivot its respective pivotal road wheel in the opposite direction only, the pivotal road wheels being otherwise freely pivotal.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.