Patent ID: 7874962
Filing Date: 2011-01-25
Classification: A63B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An exercise apparatus for a wheelchair having large diameter driving wheels, the exercise apparatus comprising: a. a platform having an upper surface which will support a wheelchair; b. an elongate slot having a center line which extends across said platform, said center line being substantially normal to planes defined by the wheelchair driving wheels when the wheelchair driving wheels are positioned in the slot for operation of the exercise apparatus; c. said slot having a width which said driving wheels can bridge and will drop into; d. an elongate roller having a central axis which is parallel with and substantially vertically below said center line, said roller mounted for movement between a lowered position where said roller is substantially below the upper surface of said platform and a raised position where said roller projects through said slot and extends partially above the upper surface of said platform where said roller lifts said wheelchair driving wheels off of said platform and supports both wheelchair driving wheels in a position above said platform, wherein said platform remains stationary while said wheelchair driving wheels are lifted off of said platform; and e. a locking mechanism which holds the wheelchair with its driving wheels on said roller when said roller is moved from its lowered position to its raised position.