AID FOR USE IN SITTING DOWN OR STANDING UP

• US 3,739,793 A
• Filed: 01/19/1972
• Issued: 06/19/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Allen B. Wilson
• Original Assignee: Allen B. Wilson
• Inventors: Wilson, Allen B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Williamowsky, David J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Berman, Conrad L.
• Application Number:
  US05/219,044
• Time in Patent Office: 517 Days
• Field of Search: 135/45A,49 5/327R,81R 297/294,287,447,5,6
• US Class Current: 5/503.1
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 17/026 Armrests mounted on or around the toilet A47K17/022 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/053 Aids for getting into, or out of, bed, e.g. steps, chairs, cane-like supports
• CPC Class Codes: A61G 7/1038 Manual lifting aids, e.g. frames or racks

Abstract

An aid for use by a crippled person in sitting down and standing up. In a preferred embodiment, the aid has generally J-shaped legs on opposite side thereof, each including an upper branch and a lower branch. The lower branches are connected together by connecting means which may be located in different places relative to the lower branches. The aid is particularly useful in assisting a crippled person in sitting down on a bed or standing up from a seated position on a bed, but the aid can be used for assistance in sitting down and standing up relative to articles other than beds. By using the aid, a person need not call a nurse or attendant to help him.

Claims

1. An aid for supporting an invalid during the motion of rising from a sitting position to a standing position relative to a separate seat and in descending from a standing position To a sitting position relative to the seat, the aid being capable of being pulled to operative position by the invalid himself and pushed out of the way after use, said aid comprising a frame having:

a pair of horizontally spaced generally J-shaped legs, and means at floor level interconnecting said legs, said legs each having a horizontal lower branch for resting on the floor, a horizontal upper branch at hand level for a person standing substantially upright and substantially shorter than said lower branch to be grasped by the invalid, and a generally upright branch interconnecting said upper and lower branches, said upper and lower branches of each leg lying substantially in the same plane and being spaced apart a distance slightly greater than the height of said seat, said interconnecting means extending transversely at floor level between said lower branches, but said legs being free of any other structure so that said legs have an open space between the same in which the person may be received and through which the person may pass while using the aid as aforesaid, and each of said legs having a front side at which said upright branch is located and an open rear side capable of receiving a seat such as a bed.

2. The aid as claimed in claim 1 in which said upright branches tilt toward each other.

3. The aid as claimed in claim 2 in which said upright branches also tilt toward said rear sides.