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Electrically-powered scooter for personal transport

  • US 5,695,021 A
  • Filed: 11/12/1993
  • Issued: 12/09/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/12/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. An electrically-powered scooter for use by elderly, disabled and infirm persons having separable fore and aft portions, including manually operable apparatus devoid of moving parts for disengagably co-linearly connecting said fore and aft portions without use of tools, being disengaged upon tilting one of said portions relative the remaining portions to a preselected relative angle therebetween, and when connected maintaining said portions along said line of connection in substantially fixed disposition respecting each other in opposition to any force applied to at least one of said portions tending to separate said portions along said line of connection, comprising:

  • a. means fixedly connected to and extending generally longitudinally from one of said scooter portions for releasably hookingly engaging a receptacle member of a remaining portion;

    b. said receptacle member fixedly connected to said remaining portion and having a receptacle therein for retainingly receiving said hookingly engaging means;

    c. said hookingly engaging means being insertable into and removable from said receptacle member;

    d. said connecting apparatus resisting disengagement of said hookingly engaging means from said receptacle member and hence of said scooter portions one from another upon application of force to either of said portions in the direction of said line of connection but freely disengaging said hookingly engaging means from said receptacle member and hence of said scooter portions one from another upon relative tilting of said portions to position longitudinal axes of said portions at a preselected angle to one another relative to said line of connection;

    e. wherein said fore and aft portions are maintained connected together for scooter operation by weight of said fore and aft scooter vehicle portions acting downwardly to urge a curved surface of said receptacle against a corresponding curved surface of said hookingly engaging means to retain said hookingly engaging means within said receptacle member;

    f. wherein said receptacle member includes surfaces which substantially complementally contact said curved surfaces of said hookingly engaging means.

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