Patent ID: 9050230
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: A61G,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. An attachment for a frame of a wheelchair to assist the wheelchair as the wheelchair rolls forward and descends from an upper surface to a lower surface, the attachment consisting: a belt support frame having angled lower ends; at least two rollers mounted on the belt support frame, each connected to a rotational damper; a belt mounted around the at least two rollers; and the angled lower ends of the belt support frame connected to the frame of the wheelchair at only a single rigid non-rotatable connection location by a pair of fasteners such that as the wheelchair descends from the upper surface to the lower surface, the belt engages an edge of the upper surface and rolls around two rollers, together with the rotational dampers slowing a descent of the wheelchair from the upper surface to the lower surface.