Patent ID: 8109554

Claim:
Support for the back of a wheelchaired driver of a vehicle that has no driver's seat and has a door behind the B-Pillar of the vehicle through which the wheelchair with the driver can be lifted into the vehicle, characterised in that the support for the back of the wheelchair is mounted to an upper portion of a pillar having an upper and a lower portion, in which the lower portion is rigidly and nonturnably mounted to the vehicle floor and the upper portion is journaled in the lower portion and fastened in the B-pillar of the vehicle so that the support for the back of the wheelchair can be swung into and out of an operative position by turning the upper portion relative to the lower portion, wherein the upper and lower portions have overlapping sleeves with grooves oriented at an angle to each other and are coupled together by a bolt fastened in a device which is arranged to displace the bolt along the pillar so that the upper portion of the pillar is turned relative to the lower portion of the pillar when the bolt is displaced.