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 Title: |
US4770410:
Walker
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| Country: |
US United States of America
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| Inventor: |
Brown, Guies L.; Miami, FL 33167
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| Assignee: |
None
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| Published / Filed: |
1988-09-13
/ 1986-07-03
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| Application Number: |
US1986000881600
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| IPC Code: |
Advanced:
A61H 3/04;
A61H 3/00;
IPC-7:
A61H 3/00;
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| ECLA Code: |
A61H3/04; K61H201/16A12B; K61H3/04B;
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| U.S. Class: |
Current:
482/068;
135/067;
280/087.051;
297/005;
297/485;
D12/130;
Original:
272/070.3;
297/005;
297/485;
135/067;
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| Field of Search: |
272/070,70.3,70.4,70.2
280/200,647,290,201,202,87.01,87.02 R,7.1
135/065,67
297/464,467,468,487,485,5,148,153
392/175,163,32,42
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| Priority Number: |
| 1986-07-03 |
US1986000881600 |
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| Abstract: |
An invalid walker has a frame in the form of a seat and seat back with arms and telescopic legs depending from the arms. An air compressor is provided on the seat back for extending and retracting the legs under occupant control so as to raise and lower the walker as between occupant-seated and occupant-standing positions. A removable front section is provided for the walker to enclose the occupant and form a safety constraint. A reinforcing ring with auxiliary stabilizing wheels is provided around the bottom of the legs. An occupant may use the device in a seated or standing position to assist in walking with the occupant's feet in ground engagement.
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| Attorney, Agent or Firm: |
Fleit, Jacobson, Cohn & Price ;
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| Primary / Asst. Examiners: |
Apley, Richard J.; Flaxman, Howard
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| Family: |
None
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First Claim:
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What is claimed as new is as follows:
1. An invalid walder comprising frame means for seating an occupant with the occupant's feet in ground contact, the frame means defining a seat portion, a seat back portion and arms extending from the seat back portion on opposite sides of the seat portion, at least four telescopic legs with ground engaging wheels at their lower ends depending from the frame means substantially at four corners thereof, at least a forward pair of the legs depending from forward end portions of the arms, power means for telescopically extending and retracting the legs so as to selectively move the seat portion vertically between occupant-seated and occupant-standing elevations, the seat portion having a forward end configured to extend between the occupant's legs, and the walker further including a removable front section for the frame means with releasable and separable connectors between the front section, the forward end portions of the arms, and the forward end of the seat portion, the front section providing a safety device when connected to the frame means for occupant constraint while providing access to the seat portion when removed from the frame means, said front section comprising a rigid first yoke member having opposite ends with first connectors for releasable attachment to the respective arms to form an enclosed extension of the arms around the front of the walker, and a rigid second yoke member depending from the central portion of the first yoke member and having a second connector for releasable attachment to the forward end of the seat portion.
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