Transfer wheelchair
OwnerJohn Enge, Eupha Lynne Colemaninventors
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Abstract
A wheelchair apparatus that provides an unobstructed seating platform for loading and unloading the user; that does not require a caregiver to lift the user's entire body during transfer on to or off of the chair; that provides a seating platform that can be positioned directly over a bed thereby eliminating the need to carry or move a patient over a gap or across an entire bed; and that reduces the number of necessary transfers on and off the chair during a twenty-four hour period by providing an integral toileting platform thereby allowing the chaired user to stay in the chair while using a pre-existing toilet.
Claims14
A chair apparatus comprising:
- a base frame having
- two C-shaped legs, each said leg having a lower horizontal first leg stem, a front vertical second leg stem and an upper horizontal third leg stem, wherein said horizontal leg stems have approximately equal lengths,
- horizontal bracing means between the two said front vertical second leg stems,
- a toileting platform supported by said upper horizontal third leg stems, said toileting platform comprising an aperture for bodily fluids to pass there through and an upper surface for removably and fixedly receiving a seating platform,
- a plurality of anchor receiving apertures for removably receiving anchors,
- a plurality of wheels attached to each said C-shaped leg,
- and wherein no part of said base frame extends vertically above said toileting platform;
- a seating platform
- removably and fixedly receivable by said toileting platform,
- comprising a front to back length approximately equal to the front to back length of said horizontal leg stems,
- said seating platform further comprising a first seating portion having an aperture for passage of bodily and other fluids therethrough and into said toileting platform aperture,
- and a second seating portion removably abutable to said first seating portion to thereby form a solid rectangular shaped seating platform;
- removably attachable means for supporting a user's torso and arms comprising
- a chair back,
- arm rests extending therefrom,
- and an anchor depending from each said arm rest,
- said anchors removably receivable in said anchor receiving apertures of said base;
- means for providing an unobstructed seating platform perimeter to a user entering or leaving said seating platform in any direction in the horizontal plane, said means comprising removal of said chair back and arm rests from said base frame;
- and
- a C-shaped positioning aperture comprising the unobstructed area beneath said seating platform and further defined by said toileting platform and the area between said C-shaped legs, whereby said seating platform and said upper horizontal third leg stems can be positioned over a bed mattress while said lower horizontal first leg stems are thereby positioned under the same mattress.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.