Walker carrier

• US 4,800,911 A
• Filed: 04/06/1987
• Issued: 01/31/1989
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: James T. Endres, Kathleen O. Endres
• Original Assignee: James T. Endres, Kathleen O. Endres
• Inventors: Endres, James T., Endres, Kathleen O.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hafer, Robert A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Sam, Charles H.
• Application Number:
  US07/034,630
• Time in Patent Office: 666 Days
• Field of Search: 135/65, 135/66, 135/67, 135/75, 135/85, 224/273, 224/271, 224/272, 224/42.42, 297/5, 297/6
• US Class Current: 135/67
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2003/002 with attached or incorporated article carrying means
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 3/00 Appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk about apparatus for helping babies to walk A47D13/04; orthopaedic devices for correcting deformities of, or supporting, limbs A61F5/0102; exercising apparatus for the feet or toes A63B23/10; stairways or ramps E04F11/00

Abstract

An improved container comprising a frame and a flexible receptacle secured thereto includes bracket or hook means for being secured substantially entirely within the space between opposite leg members in a walker.

Claims

1. A walker assembly comprising two leg members, each of said leg members having a pair of legs whereby a space is defined within said walker by an area between said leg members, handle means bridging the upper ends of each of said pair of legs, respectively, first brace members extending between the two legs of each of said pair of legs, respectively, and adjacent said handle means, and a second brace member extending between two opposite legs of different pairs of legs, and a carrier secured on said walker substantially entirely within said space defined between said leg members comprising a rigid frame removably secured on at least one of said first and second brace members and a flexible receptacle secured to and extending below said rigid frame, whereby the portion of said carrier extending below said rigid frame is flexible.

2. The assembly of claim 1 wherein said frame is secured to said first brace members.

3. The assembly of claim 2 wherein said frame is rectangular and comprises two long frame members each having a pair of hook members at opposite ends thereof, a first pair of said hook members removably secured on a first one of said first brace members and a second pair of said hook members removably secured on a second one of said first brace members.

4. The assembly of claim 1 wherein said frame is secured to said second brace member.

5. The assembly of claim 4 wherein said frame comprises two opposite long frame members and two opposite short frame members and wherein said short frame members each have a hook at one end thereof removably secured on said second brace member.

6. The assembly of claim 3 wherein said flexible receptacle includes a bottom, four sides and a top and wherein the top edges of said sides are secured to said frame.

7. The assembly of claim 5 wherein said flexible receptacle includes a bottom, four sides and a top and wherein the top edges of said sides are secured to said frame.

8. The assembly of claim 6 wherein said top is hinged to open toward said space defined between said leg members.

9. The assembly of claim 7 wherein said top is hinged to open toward said space defined between said leg members.