Stand-Aid Invalid Wheelchair.
Abstract
The patent application relates to a wheelchair designed to enable an invalid to stand, sit or choose at will any intermediate position to perform useful work, and to move about in any of said positions. The wheelchair helps to fulfill the psychological and physiological needs of handicapped persons. The lifting and lowering operations are so arranged that practically no dislocation of the invalid's clothes occurs during the operations. The wheelchair has a minimum of physical encumbrances permitting the invalid to function near normally in the average living or working spaces.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 23, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADD001950
Entities
People
- I. C. P. Staehli
- Robert K. Fogg
Organizations
- United States Department of the Navy