Improvements in and relating to Walking Machines for Paralytic or otherwise Disabled Persons.
Year: 1899

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Walking Machines for Paralytic
or otherwise Disabled Persons.
I, GEORGE THOMSON, of 9, Morrin Square, in the County of the City of Glasgow,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
:—
This invention has reference to and comprises improvements in and relating
to walking machines for paralytic or otherwise disabled persons and consists of
an improved construction or arrangement and combination of the parts whereby
the machine is made capable of adjustment to suit the person using it.
According to this invention the machine consists of a frame, preferably rect-
angular, consisting of four standards or legs connected together by stays at top
and bottom on three sides, leaving the fourth side open for the user to enter
within it and fitted with height and width adjusting appliances as follows. The
frame may be constructed of wood but is preferably constructed of metal tubing
such as steel cycle tubing and the lower end of the standards or legs are fitted
with rubber tired castors fitted with antifriction pulleys or ball bearings. The
castors are each preferably secured to a short length of tubing which slides on to
the outside of the lower end of each leg and may be secured at the desired length
by a screwed bolt passing through the leg and through slots in the outer tubing
and secured by a thumb or other nut screwing on its end, a recessed washer being
used. A cratch to support the user is adjustably fitted on the top stay on each
side of the machine, the padded cross piece of which is carried on the top of a
slotted bar which is capable of vertical motion on a bolt screwing into the vertical
arm of a bracket and by which it can be secured to the bracket at the desired
height. The horizontal arm of the bracket is capable of horizontal motion on a
block, to which it is secured in the desired portion by a pinching screw, and which
forms part of a clamp which is adjustably secured on the top stay of the machine
frame. By this arrangement the crutch can be moved vertically and horizontally
and also oscillated to any desired angle to suit the person using the machine.
Side bars one at each side, for the hands to rest upon are also adjustably mounted
on the standards it may be by screwed bolts formed with moving vertical heads
within slots in the standards and secured by being tightened up by thumb or
other nuts screwing on to their outer ends. A key or turn screw may be carried
in a device clamped to one of the stays for use in adjusting the moveable parts.
Dated the 5th September 1899.
W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.

page_text: Improvements in and relating to Walking Machines for Paralytic
or otherwise Disabled Persons.
I, GEORGE THOMSON, of 9, Morrin Square, in the County of the City of Glasgow,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of my invention and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement in writing, reference being made to the accompanying
sheet of illustrative drawings:-
This invention has reference to and comprises improvements in and relating
to walking machines for paralytic or otherwise disabled persons and consists of
an improved construction or arrangement and combination of the parts whereby
the machine is made capable of adjustment to suit the person using it.
According to this invention the machine consists of a frame, preferably rect-
angular, consisting of four standards or legs A connected together by stays A'
at top and bottom on three sides, leaving the fourth side open for the user to
enter within it and fitted with height and width adjusting appliances as follows.
The frame may be constructed of wood, but is preferably constructed of metal
tubing such as steel cycle tubing and the lower end of the standards or legs are
fitted with rubber tired castors B fitted with antifriction pulleys 6 or ball bearings.
The castors B are each preferably secured to a short length of tubing a which
slides on to the outside of the lower end of each leg A and may be secured at the
desired length by a screwed bolt a passing through the leg A and through
slots a in the outer tubing and secured by a thumb or other nut a³ screwing
on its end, recessed washers being used. A crutch C to support the user is ad-
justably fitted to oscillate on the top stay A¹ on each side of the machine, the
padded cross piece of which is carried on the top of a slotted bar e which is
capable of vertical motion on a bolt c' screwing into the vertical arm d of a
bracket by which bolt it can be secured to the bracket at the desired height
The horizontal arm d' of the bracket is capable of horizontal motion on a block d²
to which it is secured in the desired positions by a pinching screw ³, and which
forms part of a clamp G which is adjustably secured on the top stay of the
machine frame and capable of being oscillated thereon. By this arrangement
the crutch can be moved vertically and horizontally and also oscillated to any
desired angle to suit the person using the machine. Side bars E on each side for
the hands to rest upon are also adjustably mounted on the standards, it may be
as shown, by screwed bolts e formed with moving vertical heads within slots e¹
in the standards and secured by being tightened up by thumb or other nuts
screwing on to their outer ends. A key or turn screw may be carried in a device
clamped to one of the stays for use in adjusting the moveable parts, as shown
at H.
By another arrangement, as shown in Figure 2, which enables the frame to
be made narrower the crutch support is made telescopic and may be secured at
the desired height by a pinching nut and bolt f, and is also fitted to slide laterally
on a clamping device G fitted to oscillate on the top rail and be clamped securely
at the desired angle, the tube carrying the pad being shown in dotted lines.
Angular stays may be used in the case of large sizes for strengthening the
corners.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
First. The construction, or arrangement and combination of the parts, of a

page_text: walking machine for paralytic or otherwise disabled persons, substantially as
herein described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Second. In walking machines for paralytic or otherwise disabled persons the
combination with a frame having one open side, of castors with height adjusting
devices, height and width adjusting crutches, oscillating by means of clamping
devices on the side top rails, all constructed and arranged substantially as herein
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
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W. R. M. THOMSON & Co.,
96, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Agents.