Resident transfer chair

An apparatus for adjusting the length of a foot prop of a chair having a leg section the apparatus comprising:

• a foot prop support slidingy coupled to the leg section for adjustable slideable extended movement therefrom;
• a foot prop coupled to an end of the foot prop support;
• a positioning member coupled to the leg section and including at least three spaced apart stops;
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• a stop element movably coupled to the foot prop support for selective engagement with respective ones of the at least three spaced apart stops of the positioning member.

An adjustable foot prop apparatus for a leg section of a chair, the apparatus comprising:

• a positioning member coupled to the leg section, the positioning member being configured to define a plurality of spaced apart stops;
• a support element movably coupled to the leg section;
• a foot prop coupled to the support element;
• a control tube coupled to the support element, the control tube having a stop configured to engage one of the plurality of stops on the positioning member;
• an actuator configured to permit movement of the control tube and the stop on the control tube away from the stops on the positioning member so that the support and the foot prop can move relative to the leg section;
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• at least one spring configured to bias the control tube toward the positioning member so that the stop on the control tube engages one of the stops of the positioning member when the actuator is released.