JP2020168346A - Medical bag fixture for wheelchair - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a fixture that can freely detachably install a medical bag to a wheelchair and that also can adjust the height position.SOLUTION: The fixture is composed of: two legs 10 that rotate around a spindle 11 situated in the upper end part; an arm part 12 that is situated in the front, rear or intermediate part of the spindle 11 and that laterally extends; and a hanging part 14 that is provided at both ends of the arm part 12 and that can hang a medical bag. In the lower end part of the two legs 10, there is installed a fixing part 15 that is fixed to each of a pair of base frames arranged downward inside and in the longitudinal direction of wheelchair wheels. With both legs 10 opened for a suitable angle, both fixing parts 15 can be freely detachably fixed to the pair of base frames. With the length of both legs 10 set freely long or short, the height of the hanging part can be adjusted.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2

Description

The present invention relates to a wheelchair medical bag attachment for attaching a medical bag such as a urine collection bag or a urine storage bag for an inpatient to a wheelchair.

Conventional medical bag attachments for wheelchairs of this type include those described in the following patent documents.
The "wheelchair urine storage bag attachment" described in Patent Document 1 below has an object of making it possible to easily attach / detach the urine storage bag to / from the wheelchair so that the urinary catheter patient can urinate while sitting in the wheelchair. And.

The fitting is for attaching a pair of left and right foot supports to the front part of the wheelchair frame, and for attaching a urine collection bag to one of the pair of left and right foot frame portions integrally connected to the frame in a backward tilted posture. It is a urine storage bag attachment.
A frame fitting portion that is detachably fitted to one of the pair of foot frame portions and a frame fitting portion that is integrally provided on the frame fitting portion, and the urine storage bag is suspended and arranged outside the foot frame portion. As described above, the bag is provided with a hanging hook portion that is inserted into the hanging hole of the urine storage bag or that the hanging hanger of the urine storage bag is hooked.

The "jig for hanging a medical bag to a wheelchair" described in Patent Document 2 below is for attaching a medical bag including a medical suction collector such as a complicated and delicate thoracic drainage device to a wheelchair. It is an object to provide a jig for a wheelchair.

Its configuration includes a mounting base that is secured to the pipe by engagement with a downwardly formed protrusion on the underside of the wheelchair armrest pipe, and a leg or arm that extends from this mounting base. , The legs or arms are provided with hooks or bends for suspending the medical bag.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 2019-30397 Utility Model Registration No. 3208248

Another object of the present invention is to provide a fitting that can easily attach a medical bag such as a urine collection bag or a urine storage bag to a wheelchair frame.
When attaching to the wheelchair, it is an object that the attachment can be attached to a place that does not interfere with the wheelchair user, and that it is easy not only to attach but also to remove.

Furthermore, since it is necessary to attach the urine collection bag or the like to a position lower than the user's bladder position, the attachment height position should be appropriately adjusted and changed.
Further, in order to adapt to the size of the medical bag and the like, it is also an issue to make it possible to attach it at an angle and to make it foldable small when not in use.

In order to solve the above problems, the first aspect of the present invention is a medical bag attachment that can be attached to a wheelchair frame, in which two legs that rotate around a support shaft located at the upper end thereof. It is composed of an arm portion located at the front, rear or middle portion of the support shaft and extending laterally, and a suspension portion provided at both ends of the arm portion from which the medical bag can be hung. At the lower ends of the two legs, fixing portions fixed to each of the pair of base frames arranged in the front-rear direction below the inside of the wheel of the wheelchair are provided, and both legs are opened at appropriate angles. The wheelchair medical bag attachment is characterized in that both fixing portions can be detachably fixed to the pair of base frames of a wheelchair.

The "front / rear" in the "front" and "rear" of the support shaft means "front" in the forward direction of the wheelchair and "rear" in the opposite direction when the attachment is attached to the wheelchair. It is said.

The second aspect of the present invention is the wheelchair medical bag attachment, which is characterized in that, in the first aspect of the present invention, the lengths of both legs can be freely set.

A third aspect of the present invention is the wheelchair medical bag attachment according to the first or second invention, wherein the arm portion can rotate about a support shaft.

In the fourth aspect of the present invention, in the first to third inventions, the arm portion is arranged at the front portion of the support shaft, and extension arm portions extending rearward from both ends of the arm portion are provided. This is a medical back attachment for wheelchairs, characterized in that hook portions extending downward from both ends of these extension arm portions are provided, and the hook portions form the hanging lower portion.

In the fifth aspect of the present invention, in each of the above inventions, the fixing portion is composed of a pair of operating portions at the root, a pair of holding portions at the tip, and a spring portion, and presses the operating portions so as to approach each other. This is a medical bag attachment for a wheelchair, characterized in that the holding portion expands and the holding portion can hold and fix the base frame by removing the pressing force from the operating portion.

In the first aspect of the present invention, it is a medical bag attachment that can be attached to the frame of a wheelchair, and has two legs that rotate around a support shaft located at an upper end portion and the support shaft. The two legs consist of an arm portion located at the front, rear or middle portion of the wheelchair and extending laterally, and a suspension portion provided at both ends of the arm portion from which the medical bag can be suspended. At the lower end of the portion, a fixing portion fixed to each of the pair of base frames arranged in the front-rear direction below the inside of the wheel of the wheelchair is provided, so that both legs are opened at appropriate angles. Both fixing portions can be detachably and easily fixed to the pair of base frames of a wheelchair.

That is, the attachment according to the present invention can be easily attached and fixed to a pair of base frames on the back side of a wheelchair, for example, in an inverted V shape, and suspension portions are provided at both ends of an arm portion extending laterally from the support shaft. , Various medical bags can be easily hung or hooked on this suspension.
Further, when not in use, the fixing portion can be removed from the base frame and stored in a storage place in a folded state so that both legs overlap each other, which saves space and is very convenient.
Of course, this fixture can also be left attached to the wheelchair.

The above-mentioned attachment according to the present invention can be attached to a pair of base frames of a wheelchair, but the attachment position is a pair of the back side of the wheelchair (the back side of the backrest portion) as described above. It can be attached to a base frame, or it can be attached to a pair of base frames located below or in front of the seat of a wheelchair.

The second aspect of the present invention limits that the lengths of both legs can be freely set to be long or short, whereby the lengths of both legs can be set to be long or short, and the support shaft and the arm are set. The height of the suspension can be set as appropriate, and the height of the hanging lower portion can also be set freely.

The third aspect of the present invention is to limit the rotation of the arm portion around the support shaft, whereby the heights of the hanging portions provided at both ends of the arm portion are made different on the left and right. It also allows the medical bag to be hung or hooked to be held in an oblique position.

The fourth aspect of the present invention is to further limit the position of the arm portion and the form of the hanging portion.
That is, the arm portion is arranged at the front portion of the support shaft, extension arm portions extending rearward from both end portions of the arm portion are provided, and hook portions extending downward from both end portions of these extension arm portions. Is provided, and this hook portion constitutes the hanging lower portion.
It is a claim for a form that matches the actual embodiment.

In the fifth aspect of the present invention, the fixing portions provided at the lower end portions of both leg portions are more embodied.
That is, the fixed portion is composed of a pair of operating portions at the base, a pair of holding portions at the tip, and a spring portion, and the holding portion at the tip is expanded by pressing the operating portions at the root so as to approach each other. By removing the pressing force from the operating portion at the base, the holding portion at the tip can hold and fix the base frame of the wheelchair.

In other words, this fixed part has a form like a clothespin, and both operation parts are pinched and pressed so as to be close to each other to widen the holding part at the tip, and the base frame is placed between the holding parts. The fixed part can be easily attached to the base frame by positioning and removing the pressing force from the operating part, and when removing the fixed part attached in reverse from the base frame, the two operating parts are mutually attached. By pressing them closer to each other, both holding portions at the tip are expanded and the fixed portion can be easily removed from the base frame.

It is explanatory drawing of one Embodiment which concerns on the medical bag attachment for wheelchair of this invention. It is a perspective explanatory view of the said embodiment. It is explanatory drawing of the state which attached the attachment | attachment which concerns on the said embodiment to a wheelchair.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of an embodiment according to the wheelchair medical bag attachment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a perspective explanatory view of the above embodiment.

The wheelchair medical bag attachment (hereinafter simply referred to as "attachment") according to the present invention includes two legs 10 and 10 rotatably attached to a support shaft 11 at the upper end, and a support shaft. It is composed of an arm portion 12 extending laterally at the front portion of 11 and suspension portions 14 and 14 provided at both ends of the arm portion 12, and a fixing portion is provided at the lower end portions of the two leg portions 10 and 10. 15 and 15 are provided respectively.

Here, the "front part" of the support shaft 11 means a "front part" in the front direction when the wheelchair is attached to a wheelchair (not shown) with the traveling direction of the wheelchair as the front direction. are doing.
That is, since this attachment is attached to the back side of the wheelchair in the state shown in FIG. 1, the back side direction of the paper surface in FIG. 1 is the front direction, and the arm portion 12 is lateral to the "front portion" of the support shaft 11. It will be provided in the direction.

The legs 10 and 10 are each formed of two pipe bodies, have a structure in which the upper upper pipe body 10a is fitted into the lower lower pipe body 10b, and are stretchable.
That is, the length can be freely adjusted and set as needed.
A length adjusting tightening portion 10t for adjusting the length is provided in the middle portion of each leg portion 10.

The length adjusting tightening portion 10t is rotated to release the tightening, the upper pipe body 10a is made to appear and disappear outside or inside the lower pipe body 10b, and then the length adjusting tightening portion 10t is tightened. The pipe bodies 10a and 10b are fixed and the length can be adjusted.

Fixing portions 15 are provided at the lower ends of the two legs 10 and 10.
The fixed portion 15 has exactly the shape of a clothespin, is pivotally attached to a shaft portion 15j of an intermediate portion of a pair of substantially symmetrical holding pieces, and a spring portion is disposed on the shaft portion 15j to provide a tip portion. The sandwiching portion 15k of the above is urged so that the joined state can always be maintained.

The root portion of the holding piece becomes the operating portion 15s, and by pressing the operating portions 15s and 15s with the fingers of the hand so as to bring them close to each other, the holding portions 15k and 15k at the tip portion are released or expanded. Become.
Therefore, by pressing both the operating portions 15s and 15s with a finger, both the holding portions 15k and 15k at the tip can be expanded to sandwich and fix the attached member.
In the case of the fitting according to the present invention, as will be described later, it is fixed to the base frame arranged below the inside of the drive wheel of the wheelchair.

The support shaft 11 is provided with an arm portion 12 extending in the left-right lateral direction in the front portion (direction on the back side of the paper surface in FIG. 1), and the arm portion 12 is also rotatably provided by the support shaft 11.
Suspended lower parts 14 are provided at both ends of the arm portion 12.

More specifically, extension arms 13 and 13 extending rearward (front side of the middle page of FIG. 1) from both ends of the arm 12 are provided, and these extension arms 13 and 13 are hung downward this time. The lower portions 14 and 14 are extended, and hook portions 14f and 14f are provided at the lower end portions of the hanging lower portions 14 and 14, respectively.
Various medical bags can be hung or hooked on these hook portions 14f and 14f.

The arm portion 12 can be provided at a position in the middle of the two legs 10 and 10, or can be arranged at the rear portion of the two legs 10 and 10 (on the front side of the middle page of FIG. 1). it can.
When it is provided on the front side of the middle page of FIG. 1, it can be carried out without providing the extension arms 13 and 13 provided at both ends of the arm 12.

The above-mentioned constituent members may be made of metal such as aluminum or stainless steel, and the stretchable legs may be made of synthetic resin.
Finally, since the two leg portions 10 and 10 are rotatably provided by the shaft portion 11, the leg opening angle θ can be freely set as appropriate.
In FIGS. 1 and 2, the rear leg 10 is rotated to the left and the front leg 10 is rotated to the right, but the front side is reversed to the left and the rear is rearward. It is also possible to rotate the side to the right to open the legs.

Next, how to attach the fixture according to the above embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
FIG. 3 is an explanatory view illustrating a state in which the fixture according to the above embodiment is attached to a wheelchair.
FIG. 3 shows a state in which the wheelchair is viewed from the back side thereof, and the wheelchair backrest S is from a pair of base frames B arranged in the inner lower front-rear direction of the pair of left and right drive wheels K. It is provided by being stretched on the vertical frames F and F that hang vertically upward.

Tipping levers T and T are provided at the rear ends of the base frames B and B, and the caregiver can put his foot on the tipping lever T and lift the front of the wheelchair.
That is, when there is a step or the like on the traveling path, the caregiver puts his / her foot on the tipping lever T and lifts the caster in front of the wheelchair to get over it.

Further, the base frames B and B are provided with folding frames C and C called cross pipes.
The fixture according to the present invention is fixed to the pair of left and right base frames B and the rear end portions of the base frames B.

First, the lengths of both legs 10 and 10 are adjusted before attaching the attachment according to the present invention.
In the adjustment, as described above, the length adjustment tightening portion 10t provided in the intermediate portion of the leg portion 10 can be loosened to adjust the overall length of the leg portion 10 and then tightened to fix the length.
By setting the lengths of both to be short, the heights of the hook portions 14f and 14f are lowered.

After that, the leg opening angles of both leg portions 10 and 10 are appropriately widened so that the fixing portions 15 can be fixed to the base frames B and B.
In this state, the fixing portions 15 and 15 provided at the lower ends of both leg portions 10 and 10 are fixed to the base frame B of the wheelchair as shown in FIG.

To fix the fixing portion 15 to the base frame B, as already described above, the operating portions 15s at the base of the fixing portion 15 are pressed with fingers so as to be close to each other, and the holding portions 15k and 15k at the tip portions are expanded. Then, the base frame B is positioned between the sandwiching portions 15k and 15k, and then the pressing force on the operating portions 15s and 15s is removed so that the sandwiching portions 15k and 15k at the tip portion sandwich and fix the base frame B. can do.

After the attachment is attached to a wheelchair, a hole or the like provided in an upper portion of a medical bag such as a urine collection bag or a urine storage bag is hung or hooked on the hook portion 14f of the hanging lower portion 14 of the attachment portion to be held. It can be made to.

Although one embodiment of the present invention has been described above, various design changes can be made in the present invention as follows.

First, in the above-described embodiment, the embodiment in which the attachment is attached and fixed to the rear end portion of the pair of base frames located on the back side of the backrest portion of the wheelchair is illustrated, and the attachment according to the present invention is illustrated. In the case of a tool, it is also possible to attach it to the front end portion of the base frame.

That is, the fixture having exactly the same configuration as the fixture according to the above embodiment is turned upside down as it is, that is, inverted 180 degrees, and the front end portion of the base frame, that is, the lower portion of the seat portion of the wheelchair. Alternatively, it can be attached and fixed to a lower front portion, more specifically, a pair of base frames in front of a folding frame called a cross pipe arranged on the lower surface of the wheelchair seat.

In the present invention, since the lengths of both legs can be freely adjusted, the lengths can be set appropriately short and easily attached to the base frame located under or in front of the seat of the wheelchair. it can.
At that time, the attachment according to the above embodiment may be inverted and attached to and fixed to the base frame so that the hanging lower portion or the hook portion faces forward.
In other words, the configuration of the fixture according to the above embodiment can be completely left as it is, and the mounting direction can be reversed by 180 degrees to easily mount and fix it to a pair of base frames below or in front of the seat of the wheelchair. You can do it.

As described above, the fitting according to the present invention has a pair of attachments so that they can be easily attached to a pair of base frame portions located on the back side of the wheelchair or below or below the seat portion with one touch. The upper end of the leg is pivotally attached by a support shaft, a fixed portion is provided at the lower end of these legs, an arm is further provided on the support shaft, and suspension portions are provided at both ends of the arm. Basically, the specific size, shape, material, etc. can be changed as appropriate.

The fixing portion can also be implemented without the washing scissors form as in the above embodiment, and may have any form as long as it has a structure capable of sandwiching and tightening and fixing a pipe-shaped frame. ..
For example, a U-shaped cross section is used, both legs are arranged so as to straddle the base frame, a tightening screw or the like is arranged in a direction orthogonal to the both legs, and the screw is tightened to the base frame. It is also possible to adopt a fixed form.
However, in order to fix it in a one-touch manner so that it can be removed, the embodiment as described above is optimal.

The arms provided at both ends of the suspension are provided at the front of the support shaft in the above embodiment, but they can also be provided at the rear of the support shaft or between both legs.
When it is provided at the rear part of the support shaft, it is not necessary to provide extension arms at both ends of the arm part.
The hook portion provided at the lower end of the hanging lower portion may also be of another form, and in short, it may be of a form that can be hung or hooked in a hole or the like provided in the medical bag.

As described above, the present invention can be easily fixed and removed at appropriate positions on the front end portion or the rear end portion of the pair of base frames of the wheelchair with one touch, and also has the attachment height position of the medical bag or the like as the attached article. It has been possible to provide a medical bag attachment for a wheelchair that can be freely adjusted in height.

10 Leg 10a Upper tube 10b Lower tube 10t Length adjustment Tightening part 11 Support shaft 12 Arm 13 Extension arm 14 Suspended lower part 14f Hook part 15 Fixed part 15j Shaft part 15k Holding part 15s Operation part H Medical bag S Backrest B Base frame C Folding frame F Vertical frame K Drive wheel T Tipping lever

Claims (5)

In medical bag fittings that can be attached to the frame of a wheelchair
Two legs that rotate around a support shaft located at the upper end, an arm that is located at the front, rear, or middle of the support shaft and extends laterally, and both ends of the arm. It consists of a hanging part that can hang the medical bag.
At the lower ends of the two legs, a fixing portion fixed to each of a pair of base frames arranged in the front-rear direction below the inside of the wheel of the wheelchair is provided.
A wheelchair medical bag attachment that can be detachably fixed to the pair of base frames of a wheelchair by opening both legs at an appropriate angle. The wheelchair medical bag attachment according to claim 1, wherein the length of each of the legs can be freely set. The wheelchair medical bag attachment according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the arm portion can rotate about a support shaft. The arm portion is arranged at the front portion of the support shaft, extension arm portions extending rearward from both ends of the arm portion are provided, and hook portions extending downward from both ends of these extension arm portions are provided. The medical back attachment for a wheelchair according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the hook portion constitutes the hanging lower portion. The fixed portion is composed of a pair of operating portions at the base, a pair of holding portions at the tip, and a spring portion, and by pressing the operating portions so as to approach each other, the sandwiching portion expands and is pushed from the operating portion. The wheelchair medical bag attachment according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the sandwiching portion can sandwich and fix the base frame by removing pressure.