Wheelchair system for transferring occupant to motor vehicle

A wheelchair system for supporting a handicapped person and for transferring the handicapped person in the wheelchair through an automobile door opening and onto an automobile seat, said wheelchair system comprising:

• a wheeled chassis having front and rear ends and being of a height to permit the front end of said chassis to be rolled beneath an automobile door opening, said wheeled chassis including
• a horizontally extending base member, and
• a rotatable mounting means for rotatably mounting a front end of said base member to the front end of said chassis for rotation about a vertical axis, said rotatable mounting means including
• a first actuating linkage by which said base member is rotated and
• a first driven member at an end of said first actuating linkage by which said first actuating linkage is rotated to incrementally rotate said base member;
• a chair supporting frame located centrally of said chassis and removably mounted on a rear end of said base member, said chair supporting frame including
• a vertically extending support member, and
• an adjusting means for vertically adjusting a position of said support member with respect to said base member;
• a handle assembly removably mounted to the rear end of said chassis, said handle assembly including
• a second linkage for rotating said first driven member of said rotatable mounting means, said second linkage including
• a removable driving member which removably connects to said first driven member of said rotatable member as said handle is removed and connected to said chassis, and
• a second driven member at an end of said second linkage opposite to said removable driving member;
• a chair in which a handicapped person sits, said chair including a detachable left side so as to facilitate use of a seat belt by the person seated in said chair when in the automobile;
• a removable mounting means for removably mounting said chair in a cantilevered manner on an upper end of said vertically extending support member in vertical spaced relation to said wheeled chassis and in a position substantially overlying a length of said base member, whereby
• when said chassis is rolled beneath an automobile door opening, said chair will be positioned over the automobile seat,
• when said chair is positioned over an automobile seat, said chair may be lowered onto the automobile seat and said chair supporting frame may be disconnected from said chair, and
• when said chair is separated from said chair supporting frame and said chassis said chair supporting frame, said chassis and said handle assembly may be separated from one another for easy carrying and stowage.