Patent ID: 9456671
Filing Date: 2016-10-04
CPC Classification: A45B,A61H,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A walking cane apparatus for aiding walking along a surface, comprising: a top handle portion; a collapsible shaft coupled to the top handle portion, the collapsible shaft having a plurality of releasably attachable shaft segments; a foot coupled to a lowermost shaft segment of the collapsible shaft, the foot including a housing that defines a central cavity configured to enclose one or more structures, wherein the foot includes three flexible footpads mounted to a main body of the foot and configured to interface with the surface; an elastically bendable puck at least partially enclosed within the central cavity of the foot such that an axis of the elastically bendable puck is generally aligned with a central axis of the central cavity of the foot; and a fastener extending along the axis of the elastically bendable puck and through at least a portion of the foot so as to couple the foot and the elastically bendable puck to the lowermost shaft segment of the collapsible shaft, wherein at least a portion of the fastener is permanently embedded within the elastically bendable puck; wherein the elastically bendable puck biases the collapsible shaft to a first orientation relative to the foot and elastically flexes in response to pivoting movement of the collapsible shaft from the first orientation to a second orientation relative to the foot.