Patent ID: 8864171

Claim:
A scooter for a handicapped person having feet, said scooter comprising: a wide platform; a front wheel, steerably mounted at a front of the wide platform; a rear drive wheel, mounted at a back of the wide platform; a motor, connected to drive the drive wheel; a power source for the motor; a pair of protective skirts, mounted to the circumferential edges of the wide platform, a pair of casters, mounted to and below the wide platform, at lateral edges of the wide platform, at a widest dimension of said platform, within and protected by: the protective skirts; said wide platform being a wider base for planting said person's feet than on a conventional scooter, and said wide platform being almost as wide as it is long; bulkheads ( 177 & 179 ) attaching the wide platform ( 106 ) to the protective skirts ( 114 ) and to the casters ( 119 & 121 ); said protective skirts extending nearly to a bottom of the casters, to prevent objects or people from being run over by the casters.