EP0574482B1 - Rollstuhlhaltevorrichtung - Google Patents
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- A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
- A61G—TRANSPORT, PERSONAL CONVEYANCES, OR ACCOMMODATION SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR PATIENTS OR DISABLED PERSONS; OPERATING TABLES OR CHAIRS; CHAIRS FOR DENTISTRY; FUNERAL DEVICES
- A61G3/00—Ambulance aspects of vehicles; Vehicles with special provisions for transporting patients or disabled persons, or their personal conveyances, e.g. for facilitating access of, or for loading, wheelchairs
- A61G3/08—Accommodating or securing wheelchairs or stretchers
- A61G3/0808—Accommodating or securing wheelchairs
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- This invention relates to wheelchair restraints and is concerned with holding a wheelchair secure in a vehicle so that the user can remain in it rather than transfer to an ordinary seat with a seat belt.
- the operation is carried out from entirely behind the wheelchair.
- the abutment should engage the framework of the chair substantially above the axis of the main wheels, while the belting can be entrained around the framework below that axis.
- tensioned there is a moment applied to the wheelchair by the belting and the abutment forcing the small front wheels hard against the floor.
- the abutment at least when raised, may be further adjustable in the fore and aft direction, there being means for urging it towards and holding it in a forwards position to augment the belt tensioning.
- the tensioning is completed by adjustment of the abutment, forcing the wheelchair forwards against the belting.
- the urging means conveniently includes a cam to act on the base of the abutment and a handle or pedal to operate the cam.
- the abutment may also be adjustable when lowered in the fore and aft direction. It can then be arranged that at one extreme it is raisable while at the other it co-operates with stop means to prevent it being raised. This enables the restraint, if portable, to be carried with all parts securely and compactly stowed.
- the anchorage means includes two anchorage points at rear corners of the base.
- Each may have an associated adjustable belt that can be formed into a loop and secured back at a fastening at the anchorage point.
- the abutment is hinged to the base near the rear thereof, and in the raised position inclines upwardly and forwardly.
- An extensible strut may link the upper part of the abutment with the base to support the abutment in the raised position, or a flexible tie may link the upper part of the abutment with the base to limit the upward hinging of the abutment.
- the abutment may simply be pulled up directly by hand, but it may prove easier to have a handle or pedal at the rear of the base linked to and operable to raise the abutment.
- a rectangular base 1 can be secured to floor tracks 2 by devices 3, such as described in GB-B-2219493, at the middle of two sides of the base 1.
- devices 3 such as described in GB-B-2219493, at the middle of two sides of the base 1.
- anchorage points 4 for belts 5 each of which can be formed into a loop with a free end clipped back into a socket 6 linked to the associated anchorage point 4.
- These sockets 6 can be rapid release devices such as are used with ordinary car seat belts.
- Tension can be applied to each loop by pulling on a portion 7 free of a jamming cleat 8.
- An abutment 9 is hinged to the base 1 about an axis near and parallel to its rear edge. It can assume a lowered position as shown in Figure 1, where it is substantially flush with the base 1, or a raised position as shown in the other figures. In this example, it resembles the Greek letter ⁇ and the arms 10, which may be telescopic within limits, have pads 11 for engagement by framework 12 of a wheelchair.
- the two legs 13 of the abutment are spanned near their upper ends by a bar 14 to which is coupled one end of a telescopic strut 15, the other end of which is pivoted to the base 1.
- the strut has a spring loaded plunger which engages when the strut is fully extended to hold it in that position, and it can be released by pulling a knob 16.
- the legs 13 house in recesses 17 in the base 1 on either side of a shorter recess 18 for the strut 15.
- a handle 19 Central of the rear of the base 1 there is a handle 19 by which the final tensioning is carried out.
- the abutment 9 is hinged to a shaft within the base which is capable of limited fore and aft movement, and the handle 19 is the operating member by which this is achieved.
- the handle 19 When the handle 19 is flat and partially housed within a recess 20, the abutment shaft is at a forward position, urged there by a cam on the lower end of the handle 19.
- the handle 19 is raised to the vertical or thereabouts, the shaft is released and can assume a rearwards position. If desired, there may be means for locking the handle in the lowered position.
- the abutment 9, strut 15 and handle 19 are all lowered as shown in Figure 1.
- a wheelchair can be moved to straddle the base 1 either from the front or the rear.
- the handle 19 is pulled up, allowing the abutment 9 to be raised and held by the strut 15.
- the belts 5 are looped round parts of the wheelchair, secured and lightly tensioned so that the wheelchair frame 12 engages the pads 11.
- the handle 19 is lowered, pushing the abutment 9 and thus the wheelchair slightly forwards and straining the belts 5 to increased tension. This finally secures the wheelchair.
- the action of the handle 19 could be reversed; that is it would be lowered while the belts 5 were being fitted and then pulled up to a retained upright position to shift the abutment 9 forwards and finally tension the belts.
- the handle 19 is simply lifted (or lowered), the belts 5 are released from the sockets 6, and the abutment 9 is lowered.
- a telescopic strut there could be a jointed one which acts like a toggle mechanism.
- a manually operated handle 19 there could be a pedal.
- handle or pedal rather than pulling the abutment 9 up by hand, there could be a mechanism, handle or pedal operated, for raising it, and if this was self-locking there would be less or no need for the strut 15.
- instead of two separate belt restraints there could be one looped from one anchorage point 4 around the wheelchair frame to the other point 4, and that single belt could be on a retracting reel.
- the anchorage could be built into the floor of a vehicle as a permanent feature.
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Claims (9)
- Rollstuhl-Einspannvorrichtung mit einer Basis (1), die am Boden befestigt oder befestigbar ist oder durch Teile eines Bodens gebildet wird, Verankerungseinrichtungen (4, 5) zum Angreifen am Rollstuhl und zum Ausüben einer rückwärtsgerichteten Zugkraft auf diesen, und einer Abstützvorrichtung (9), an der die Rückseite des Rollstuhls anliegt, wenn er verankert ist, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Verankerungseinrichtungen (4, 5) eine spannbare Gurteinrichtung (5) umfassen, die am hinteren Teil der Basis (1) befestigt ist, und daß die Abstützvorrichtung (9) zwischen einer abgesenkten Position, in der sie im wesentlichen in der gleichen Ebene wie die Basis (1) liegt, und einer angehobenen Position, in der sie an einem über der Basis (1) stehenden Rollstuhl in einer Höhe anliegt, die wesentlich über der der Verankerungseinrichtungen (4, 5) liegt, verstellbar ist.
- Rollstuhl-Einspannvorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Abstützvorrichtung (9) zumindest in ihrem angehobenen Zustand weiterhin in der Richtung nach vorne und nach hinten verstellbar ist und daß eine Einrichtung (19) vorhanden ist, die sie zur Erhöhung der Gurtspannung in eine vorgeschobene Position drückt und darin hält.
- Rollstuhl-Einspannvorrichtung nach Anspruch 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die die Abstützvorrichtung vorwärtsdrückende Einrichtung einen Nocken zum Einwirken auf die Basis der Abstützvorrichtung und einen Handgriff (19) oder ein Pedal zum Betätigen des Nockens umfaßt.
- Rollstuhl-Einspannvorrichtung nach Anspruch 2 oder 3, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Abstützvorrichtung (9) in ihrer abgesenkten Stellung in der Richtung nach vorne und nach hinten verstellbar ist und daß sie in der einen Extremstellung anhebbar ist und in der anderen mit einer Sperre (20) zusammenwirkt, die sie am Aufrichten hindert.
- Rollstuhl-Einspannvorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Verankerungseinrichtungen (4, 5) zwei Verankerungspunkte (4) an den hinteren Ecken der Basis (1) umfassen, von denen jedem ein einstellbarer Gurt (5) zugeordnet ist, der zu einer Schleife gebildet und zurück an einer Schließstelle am Verankerungspunkt befestigt werden kann.
- Rollstuhl-Einspannvorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Abstützvorrichtung (9) mit der Basis (1) nahe deren hinterem Rand scharniermäßig verbunden ist und sich in ihrer angehobenen Stellung nach oben und vorne neigt.
- Rollstuhl-Einspannvorrichtung nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der obere Teil (14) der Abstützvorrichtung (9) zu deren Abstützung in der angehobenen Stellung mit der Basis (1) über eine ausdehnbare Strebe (15) verbunden ist.
- Rollstuhl-Einspannvorrichtung nach Anspruch 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß der obere Teil der Abstützvorrichtung (9) zum Begrenzen von deren Aufwärts-Verschwenkung mit der Basis (1) über eine flexible Verbindung verbunden ist.
- Rollstuhl-Einspannvorrichtung nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß sich an der Hinterseite der Basis ein Handgriff oder ein Pedal befindet, der bzw. das mit der Abstützvorrichtung verbunden und dazu betätigbar ist, diese anzuheben.
Applications Claiming Priority (3)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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GB9104790A GB9104790D0 (en) | 1991-03-07 | 1991-03-07 | Improvements relating to wheelchair restraints |
GB9104790 | 1991-03-07 | ||
PCT/GB1992/000418 WO1992015270A1 (en) | 1991-03-07 | 1992-03-09 | Wheelchair restraints |
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EP0574482A1 EP0574482A1 (de) | 1993-12-22 |
EP0574482B1 true EP0574482B1 (de) | 1995-12-13 |
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Application Number | Title | Priority Date | Filing Date |
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EP92906307A Expired - Lifetime EP0574482B1 (de) | 1991-03-07 | 1992-03-09 | Rollstuhlhaltevorrichtung |
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EP (1) | EP0574482B1 (de) |
AU (1) | AU659634B2 (de) |
DE (1) | DE69206789T2 (de) |
GB (1) | GB9104790D0 (de) |
WO (1) | WO1992015270A1 (de) |
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FR2697748B1 (fr) * | 1992-11-09 | 1994-12-30 | Dietrich & Cie De | Dispositif de fixation d'un véhicule pour handicapé physique dans un moyen de transport. |
US7455490B1 (en) | 2004-07-21 | 2008-11-25 | Gregory F Goosen | Wheelchair holding device |
JP6981342B2 (ja) * | 2018-04-02 | 2021-12-15 | トヨタ車体株式会社 | 車両の車椅子収納装置 |
JP6988654B2 (ja) * | 2018-04-02 | 2022-01-05 | トヨタ車体株式会社 | 車両の車椅子収納装置 |
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US4093303A (en) * | 1977-02-28 | 1978-06-06 | Chas. Olson & Sons And Wheel Service Co., Inc. | Wheelchair retaining apparatus for vehicles |
GB2180507B (en) * | 1985-09-07 | 1989-08-16 | Metrocab Ltd | Locating wheelchairs, primarily in vehicles |
GB2197628B (en) * | 1986-11-14 | 1991-01-02 | Unwin C N Ltds | Improvements relating to dual purpose seat structures |
US4995775A (en) * | 1990-03-01 | 1991-02-26 | Gresham Gerald L | Tie down apparatus for wheelchair |
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- 1992-03-09 DE DE69206789T patent/DE69206789T2/de not_active Expired - Fee Related
- 1992-03-09 AU AU14108/92A patent/AU659634B2/en not_active Ceased
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DE69206789D1 (de) | 1996-01-25 |
DE69206789T2 (de) | 1996-08-08 |
AU659634B2 (en) | 1995-05-25 |
EP0574482A1 (de) | 1993-12-22 |
GB9104790D0 (en) | 1991-04-17 |
AU1410892A (en) | 1992-10-06 |
WO1992015270A1 (en) | 1992-09-17 |
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