Stick-like means for physically handicapped person
AssigneeOhta Company Limited
InventorToshiaki Miyoshi
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Abstract
A stick-like apparatus for a physically handicapped person including a grip handle and a forearm supporting rod which rotates together with respect to a main rod so that the user can sit in an easy posture and can easily impose force on the stick-like apparatus when he stands up from a chair or when he goes upstairs.
Claims8
Stick-like means for a physically handicapped person including a grip handle to be grasped by the hand, a forearm supporting rod and a main rod whose lower end comes in contact with the ground, wherein said grip handle and said forearm supporting rod are connected to each other substantially at right angles, and an engagement member between said grip handle and said supporting rod is rotatably attached at an upper end of the main rod so as to rotate the grip handle between a location where it extends forward and a location where it extends upward with respect to the main rod extending upright and to rotate the forearm supporting rod between a location where it extends upward and a location where it extends backward with respect to the upright-extending main rod, and wherein an engagement pin provided in said grip handle is inserted in a recessed portion formed in said engagement member between the grip handle and the forearm supporting rod under such a condition that grip handle extends forward, so that the engagement pin locks the grip handle and the forearm supporting rod with respect to the main rod, and said engagement pin is extracted from said recessed portion of said engagement member for releasing the grip handle and the forearm supporting rod from being locked except when the grip handle extends forward.
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