Patent ID: 7338133
Filing Date: 2008-03-04
Classification: A61G

Abstract:
1. A body support chair for the physically challenged and disabled, comprising: a supporting frame and an articulated structure comprising a back, a seat, a foot rest supported by two uprights and means for holding a user's legs, at least in part immovable, said articulated structure forming a verticalizer device allowing passage from a lowered sitting position to a standing position, wherein the means for holding the legs comprises two support beams, each support beam being attached to one of the two uprights of the foot rest and being slidable in a vertical plane between a retracted position and a working position in extension towards the front of the chair at a corresponding distance from the uprights, a front end of each support beam comprising means for affixing an immovable frontal support element extending between the support beams and providing support for the user's two legs, and wherein each support beam has an arcuate form, whose concavity is, in the retracted position, oriented towards the front of the chair and which defines an upper arm and a lower arm, a distal end of the upper arm being provided with the means for affixing immovable frontal support element.