Patent ID: 8671962

Claim:
An articulating glide assembly for use on a walker that assists disabled individuals to walk, the articulating glide assembly comprising: an adapter having an annular sleeve defining an opening at a top end thereof for engaging a leg of a walker; a base at a bottom end of the sleeve for supporting the downward force exerted by the walker, the base defining a hole therethrough; an articulating foot having an upwardly extending spherical surface from a top of the foot and a pin extending upwardly from the spherical surface, the spherical surface engaging an edge of the hole in the base and the pin extending through the hole and movably engaged therein; a retainer engaged on an upper portion of the pin, the retainer having an outside diameter larger than the inside diameter of a portion of the hole in the base to thereby retain the foot on the base; the edge of the hole in the base being spherically chamfered for engagement with the spherical surface on the foot; at least one of the hole and the retainer being sufficiently resilient to enable the retainer to pass through the hole when the foot is pulled from the adapter or pushed to the adapter; and a flat bottom of the foot adapted to engage a floor surface.