TRAVEL CHAIR FOR PHYSICALLY HANDICAPPED PEOPLE CAPABLE OF BEING PLACED ON SEAT AND METHOD OF PLACING THE SAME ON THE SEAT

摘要

Procedure and apparatus for transporting a physically handicapped to/from a normal seat, characterized in that it comprises the steps of: enabling a chair with a seat; attaching a pivotal and rotating wheel device to its front only, the seat being essentially free of obstructions under its rear part; provide the chair with a backrest; placing a leg device under the back of the seat in a position of coupling to the ground to form a freestanding chair; place the physically handicapped in the chair; pivotally joining a pair of back handles to the backrest; swinging the rear handles from a practically vertical position to a practically horizontal position; move the leg device to a position where it loses contact with the ground; transporting the person in the chair by rolling the chair over the front wheel device only, by pivoting the chair around the wheel device with the person occupying the seat and rolling the chair in pivoted position, the wheels being able to pivot so that the normal type seat can be reached from several angles; fit the chair on a normal seat and slide the back of the seat of the chair over the normal seat; and returning the rear handles to a practically vertical position so that the chair can fit almost completely into the seat of the normal type. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)