FR2645737A1 - Wheelchair for shower - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention concerns a wheelchair made of strong material which is resistant to hot water and soap. The wheelchair is positioned and fixed on a tubular frame equipped with four pivoting wheels, two of them with brakes, and two reinforcement tubes at the back, the end of which, forming a handle, is used to move the wheelchair and its occupant.

Description

WHEELCHAIR FOR SHOWER
The present invention relates to a wheelchair for showering, which allows disabled people to shower without having to make transfers to additional seats.

 Before, you had to get the disabled person with a normal wheelchair or with a patient lift to take them to the bathroom.

 The drawback in these cited cases are the different transfers to be made. The disabled person is therefore dependent on everyone and the transfers are painful for the patient if not painful.

Hence often a lack of hygiene caused either by the disabled person himself during great fatigue or the lack of staff in specialized establishments. Staff who transpires and washes the patients all day long. .

In addition for the disabled staying at home
some find it difficult to wash alone. They have to wait for a
valid person to help them perform these essential gestures5
of life grooming.

This invention overcomes all of these inconveniences
nients because it is possible with this chair to fetch
the disabled to his bed and to carry him to the bathroom
without making any other transfers.The shower is taken with the armchair
Once the shower is finished, just release the two brakes
and bring the person back to the chosen location.

This invention consists of a wheelchair
locksmith in large section covered with paint
resistant to hot water and soap which supports an anatomical seat
than manufactured in a material resistant to hot strip and to -
soap.

The anatomical shape of the backrest allows good support
of the individual.This enveloping curved shape with a more
enlarged at shoulder height and a tiennert relief headrest
well the bust and the head. Big veins dug in diago
nales all along the backrest drain well water to the seat.

The seat is curved in the height direction
presenting on its back a light dish allowing good -
sit on the sides of the seat are dug large ribs
allowing to receive the water and to drain it.

 In front of the axis of the seat a large diameter cutout arriving almost in the center of the seat allows for intimate toilet.

 The frame now the chair is in locksmith tube in front of a removable footrest allows for great comfort.

 Behind, starting at mid-height from the chassis, two tube reinforcements with two handles make it easy to push the latter and fix the back of the chair.

The four swivel castors of sufficient diameter, two of which with brakes, allow the wheelchair to be pushed easily for the shower.

 The seat is fixed to the chassis using stainless steel screws. These screws are embedded in the large ribs of the seat mentioned more hgatfigure I shows us the armchair seen in profile. We thus see the position of the armchair posed on the chair in tube.

This also makes it possible to notice the two rear reinforcement tubes receiving the backrest as well as the position of the guide handles.

In front of the footrest in the low position folds back on its axis to facilitate the entry and exit of the person.

 Figure 2 shows the position of the large water flow ribs and that of the headrest.

 Figure 3 represents the seat seen from above showing the position of the vervures and that of the cut-out allowing to carry out the intimate toilet.

Claims (1)

CLAIM Wheelchair for showering for the disabled or people  with reduced mobility, the claim is characterized in that it  peddles ribs that allow water to be evacuated without moving the  body.