Chair, frame and lifting garment useful for patients
AssigneeDevelop, LLC
InventorRoger Kenneth Leib
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Abstract
A system for supporting, lifting, moving, mobilizing, ambulating, and physically rehabilitating a user such as patients in hospitals comprises a chair 100, a frame 200, and a lifting garment 300. The chair 100 has a seat 102 having a front portion 104 and a rear portion 106 and is so constructed that as the seat 102 moves towards a standing position, the rear portion 106 of the seat 102 remains substantially horizontally so a user does not slide out of the seat. The frame 200 is constructed so that the user can enter the frame 200 from either the front side 202 or the rear side 204. The lifting garment 300 is made of a fabric that contracts normal to a direction in which it is pulled for ease in raising a patient in or out of a bed, a chair, or a toilet, to or from a standing position.
Claims16
A chair comprising:
- a) a seat having a front portion and a rear portion and opposed side edges, the chair having a seated position with the seat being substantially horizontal;
- b) a support system for the seat, the support system comprising a collapsible frame for each side edge, each frame being in the shape of a parallelogram, each parallelogram being formed by one or more than one members;
- c) a pivot mechanism between the front and rear portions so they can pivot relative to each other;
- d) a back extending upwardly from the rear portion of the seat;
- e) legs for supporting the seat,
- wherein the front portion of the seat pivots upwardly from a pivot location at the front portion of the seat for lifting a user from the seated position toward a standing position,
- wherein the rear portion of the seat inclines slightly downwardly toward the back both in the seated position and in the standing position, and
- wherein the rear portion pivots relative to the front portion so that the rear portion of the seat remains generally horizontal with an incline slightly downwardly toward the back as the front portion of the seat pivots upwardly toward the standing position;
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- f) a drive for pivoting the front portion of the seat upwardly toward the standing position.
A chair comprising:
- a) a seat having a front portion and a rear portion and opposed side edges, the chair having a seated position with the seat being substantially horizontal;
- b) a support system for the seat, the support system comprising a collapsible frame for each side edge, each frame being in the shape of a parallelogram, each parallelogram being formed by one or more than one members;
- c) a pivot mechanism between the front and rear portions so they can pivot relative to each other;
- d) a back extending upwardly from the rear portion of the seat;
- wherein the back has a lordotic curvature in an upright position, wherein the lordotic curvature automatically partially flattens out as the chair reclines;
- e) legs for supporting the seat,
- wherein the front portion of the seat pivots upwardly from a pivot location at the front portion of the seat for lifting a user from the seated position toward a standing position, and
- wherein the rear portion pivots relative to the front portion so that the rear portion of the seat remains substantially horizontal as the front portion of the seat pivots upwardly toward the standing position;
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- f) a drive for pivoting the front portion of the seat upwardly toward the standing position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.