Patent ID: 6257609
Filing Date: 2001-07-10
Classification: A61G

Abstract:
Conversion apparatus for converting a manually propelled wheelchair, said wheelchair having conventional, large paired drive wheels mounted on axles, and paired, smaller independently castered front wheels, and including patient seating apparatus supported by a support frame mounted on said axles, said seating apparatus including seat, back, headrest, legrests and armrests,said wheelchair having X-braced, folding frame means which permits the unoccupied wheelchair to be folded side-to-side for ease of transport from one site to another,said conversion apparatus including means for detachably affixing to said wheelchair means for effecting rotation about said axles of said patient seating apparatus while maintaining said drive wheels and said castered front wheels all in fixed spatial relationship with respect to each other, which means for effecting rotation enables a patient seated in said wheelchair to be tilted backwardly or forwardly so as to rotate said patient spatially while maintaining all relative positions of said patient's body and limbs fixed with respect to one another, andmeans for locking said patient seating apparatus in place at a desired extent of rotation.