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Apparatus for coupling wheelchairs to ventilator carts

  • US 6,273,444 B1
  • Filed: 03/31/1999
  • Issued: 08/14/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A portable cart for releasable attachment to a wheelchair, the wheelchair having frame components, said cart comprising:

  • a base adapted to receive equipment for a person seated in the wheelchair;

    a tubular frame adjacent to at least a portion of said base and presenting a pair of forwardly facing open ends, each of said open ends operable to receive a wheelchair frame component therein; and

    a pair of elongated pins operable to releasably secure said cart to said wheelchair frame components when said frame components are received in said open ends and permitting up and down relative movement between the cart and the wheelchair in order to afford an articulated connection between said cart and the wheelchair to pass over uneven surfaces without breaking the connection therebetween.

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