DE3227062A1 - Reading aid - Google Patents

Abstract

A reading aid for holding reading material and writing materials for handicapped persons with a page turning arrangement as a hanging device or table top device, adjustable for all enforced bodily positions and head positions, with manual operation or electro-automatic control of the page turning process. Vertically adjustable for adaptation to the horizontal visual optics for persons with impaired movement. Use for individually turning the pages of the reading material with automatic control is interchangeable, together with the individual pages of the reading material. Three 6 volt motors at various points in the housing supply the individual movement operations, with the cooperation of a transformer or interchangeable small batteries. The reading aid consists of a support part, which can be folded back, for receiving the reading material and a supporting column with supporting arm, having a utility fastening for chairs and beds.

Description

- ti—

description
Title: Reading Aid
Category of the subject of the registration:

The invention relates to a reading aid for handicapped and non-handicapped people with manual operation or electrically automatic operation with initial switching according to the preamble of claims one to seven. Information on the genus?

The intended reading aid is intended to enable the reader to effortlessly read rows of letters at changing height to the horizontal of the optics with the position of the head and body unchanged and to be able to be operated both manually and automatically with the least amount of personal effort on the part of the reader, which is still possible Page turning process.
State of the art:

To meet individual requirements, a number of constructions similar to the intended purpose exist, such as: FR Z5h5 1o3 / At.132 221 / De.-GM 7331oi + / f. There is also a construction with vertically tensioned threads whereby a wooden stick should be used to turn the leaf. A Danish device with a transparent plastic support plate is also offered with a cumbersome, annoying book leaf. A pneumatic sheet turning device from Orthopädia Kiel is also offered as a stand-alone device. State of the art criticism:

All of the designs listed above only meet Tell requirements that are not sufficient also for disabled people To this day they have not been able to establish themselves on the market because the constructions for the Readers are too cumbersome and too expensive to implement. they do not have the optimal flexible Adjustment options for the head and postures in a sitting to all-round body position. Loosely hanging devices must be held by hand while reading in order to meet the horizontal axis of the optics. fixed with prefabricated grids allow fine adjustment

. ^ MACHQEREIOHT

ment and do not exclude a violation of the "willing to read", since the reading material must also be brought in front of the eye at a distance of around 2oo ram The eye can adapt to the position of the reading lines. There are also limits to the format of the reading material. Automatic scrolling back through the reading material is not possible. Other devices only allow certain types of paper. (No glossy paper). With all these devices, must A second person can be used to assist the reader with a change of posture on the device connected utility furniture without further wall and fastening Screw fastenings to everyday furniture cause surface damage on devices with a rigid support column.
Task:

The invention is based on the object of designing the individual possibilities that appear in the given constructions in an invention in such a way that all the requirements of disabled people can be met. It is necessary to be able to adjust the view “to the horizontal plane of the optics in all body positions and head postures without having to change the posture of the person willing to read during the reading and turning over process ale the automatic device for the severely disabled.
Solution:

This task is performed with a generic facility solved by the characterizing features of claims 1-7

-3-

Blank page

Claims (3)

Patent claims: I. READING AID for holding and turning pages of reading material and writing pads, with hand control hanging on a support arm with support column,
characterized, that the reading aid consists of two support parts (8) (12). The support part (8) is a frame made of tubes through which a flexible iron wire (9) is guided. On the two side parts insert rings that are horizontally connected by plastic threads so that they move up or down under tension At the corners there are eye bolts with two washers and a leather insert on the flexible wire (9) and a wing nut for clamping the supporting plastic hose ropes which are attached to the support arm (3) by means of two leather strap loops (5) and can be locked. The second support part (12) is a right-angled bent metal plate which is attached to the first support part in such a way that it folds backwards until it finds an obstructive support on the carrier rope. The grapes are placed on the angled part of twenty to thirty millimeters and, during the turning process, lies down by hand on the carrier part (12). A felt strip secures the metal edges of the support part (12) .Side-shiftable Jaws on the angled support part (12) secure the reading material before moving it sideways when the device is in the appropriate position. AFTER ¹ 2. L ESEHILFSQER K T hold and turn single sheets of grapes with electrical / automatic control ;, hanging on a support arm with support column with double weight compensation on the support arm and single weight compensation on the carrier part characterized in that the reading aid consists of three parts consists of: support column (15) (16) with support arm (17) Static support part for reading material, (8) Fold-back support part with exchangeable Guide part for the single sheets of the reading material (22) « The support column and support arm are connected with a bolt so that the support arm can move to a limited extent and the support part (8) (22) raises and lowers. The support arm has over the pivot point an extendable extension on which the main balance weight (21) hangs on the other side of the pivot point a smaller weight (19) to compensate for the weight of the reading material. It is set by its own during the reading process Motor drive moves, so that a grape is larger in size the line of letters to be read can be brought to eye level. The static support part (8) is with the foldable one Support plate (22) laterally connected with bolts which have a rotary movement An angle strut (24) on both rare parts moves the carrier part (22) by means of a motor with an endless chain back and forth. An unchangeable plastic thread tension serves as a support for the reading material with a different supine position of the willing reader as in claim 2. The suspension takes place as in claim 1. The retractable support part (22) has two trolleys with one (27) Steel wire guide for the turning machine. The machine consists of a tube with a guide roller)! which are in move the steel wire guide up and down and thus the turning scgine.In near the guide rollers there is a pendulum weight to hold the turning machine in the scales. In the middle of the turning machine there is a steel wire nose (28) in each direction, each of which is located under the reading material sheet pushes, lifts and turns, and the process is reversed accordingly A corresponding raising of the support base favors the turning process, even thin sheets (RIGHT OF ADDRESS j The interchangeable reading guide has a number of steel wires. Guide arches (23) for threading in the perforated single sheets of reading material and the transparent film counter-sheets. A separate motor moves the parallel turning machine through an endless chain construction (drawing sheet no. 7) back and forth. A special production allows the turning back Single sheets of reading material. The carrier part (22) has
a rod protruding from the side parts between them
Counterweight (25) echoes the balance, which can be set and locked in various ways. The suspension takes place as in claim 1 with an additional one Spreader bar (26). 3. Reading aid for holding and turning reading material-Elnzel- scroll as a desktop stand device.
characterized in that the device only consists of the carrier part however, without counterbalancing there is one
Base is given that can bring the device into a writing desk-like height-adjustable position.
Otherwise otherwise characterized as in claim 2 SUBSEQUENT Γ k · Support column with support arm for carrying, lifting and lowering the reading material with special lighting. ; along with Seltenschwenk. characterized in that the support column is rotatably connected to the support arm by a bolt, the support arm protrudes over the pivot point on the field side, with a sliding extension with counterweight at one end of the support arm, (HI) and opposite in the vicinity of the pivot point has a sliding small weight Ci 9). A double extension can extend the length of the support arm individually and variably?) The support column has a construction (2o) in its upper part for lateral pivoting of the support arm with the reading material while at the same time turning off the lighting and by means of an adjustable timer, so that when the A pin connection between the rotating part and the fixed support column part is released and thus the pivot point is released, whereby a rolling pin firmly connected to the fixed part loads the rotating part evenly on both sides in corresponding slot guides ... (29) (3o) For fastening (I8 ) the support column has a threaded rod on its lower part that is individually bent on both sides to adapt to the piece of furniture and has a metal bracket that can be locked with threaded nuts at both ends and that has a small hole on the floor bracket part in which the pin of a floor protector for upright furniture feet Takes place, with the foot In the upper part of the column there is a double-looped rope attachment, which connects the support column with the furniture and secures it with a special knot. 7) The Srom conversion of 22o / 6 volts is provided by a transformer on the lower part of the support column or 6 volt batteries on the support part (8) The small weight is controlled by its own motor which can be operated separately "Jut by Xun ^ cti contact control or similar possibilities, fingers, feet, chin, Stirλ etc. NACHQERESCH ", . Support column and support arm connected by a rotatable bolt connection to carry the reading material carrier part (8) (12) with lifting and lowering, characterized in that the support column to the support arm has an angle brace with an internal compression spring, which has a fixed pivot point on the support column and is adjustable on the support arm and secured in ten holes in the support arm The variable height adjustment of the grapes is done by more or less strong. Load on the sagging Support rope for the rear suspension during the Lesvor--,. gang (13)