JP3223044U - Cane aid - Google Patents

Abstract

There is provided a cane assisting tool that can be attached to and detached from a commercially available cane and can be used as an auxiliary grip when attached to the cane. A cane assisting tool to be attached to a cane, comprising a first part 11 and a second part 12, and fixed so that it can be detachably attached to any position of a cane post with a screw S and a nut N Part 10 and a grip part 20 having one end attached to a fixed part, and the grip part is parallel to the support post of the cane to be attached when the fixed part is attached to the support post of the cane to be attached. It can be pivoted about the axis A to a position and a vertical position. [Selection] Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a cane assisting device to be attached to a cane in order to assist standing up from a sitting posture.

  The cane is indispensable for people who are unable to walk, such as elderly people. As a commercially available general-purpose cane, a T-shaped cane having a grip pattern on the upper end of a rod-shaped support is widely used. In using such a T-shaped cane, the height of the grip pattern is set to be the same as the height of the hand when the user stands up.

On the other hand, when a user of a cane stands up from a seated state using a cane, or conversely, when sitting from a standing state using a cane, both are in a state of middle waist, Is burdensome for users with weak legs and legs such as elderly people. In addition, when standing up using the cane from the state where the user of the cane is seated, the user stands up with the weight on the cane, but as described above, the handle of the T-type cane is the hand when the user is up. Since it is the same as the height, it is not possible to put weight on this point.
As described above, a user who has weak legs and legs such as an elderly person may not be able to use the cane well when standing up from a sitting posture or sitting from a standing state.

  In response to such a problem, a cane having an auxiliary grip other than a grip handle in a T-shaped cane has been reported. For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a two-stage with an auxiliary assist handle that is attached to an upright auxiliary handle (auxiliary grip) that can be gripped at the time of rising on a support, and can easily stand on a position where the weight can be placed. A cane has been reported. Patent Document 2 reports a pedestrian cane provided with a hand receiving portion (auxiliary grip) at an appropriate position on the upper part of the cane body. Further, Patent Document 3 is a cane that is equipped with an auxiliary handshake (auxiliary grip) that can change the position on a column that has a handshake at the upper end and a foot at the lower end, and a grasping mechanism that can adjust the position of the auxiliary handshake. A cane with an auxiliary handshake has been reported. Patent Document 4 discloses a crutch having an auxiliary handle (auxiliary grip), and an extending portion extends from below one end pivotally attached to a support base of the auxiliary handle, and the auxiliary handle is a main body of the cane. There are reports of crutches that are configured such that when they are positioned perpendicular to the rod, the extension presses against the rod.

JP-A-9-313224 JP 2001-128715 A JP 2004-077331 A Utility Model Registration No. 3195474

  Since the cane which has the auxiliary grip of the said patent documents 1-4 can grab an auxiliary grip with a hand and can put a weight, it becomes easy to stand up from the seated state. However, any of the canes having these auxiliary grips has a configuration in which the auxiliary grip is attached to the cane itself, and the auxiliary grip cannot be removed from the cane. On the other hand, users (especially elderly people) have a need to use a cane that they have been used to.

  This invention is made | formed for such a situation, and it aims at providing the cane auxiliary | assistance tool which can be attached or detached to a commercially available cane and can be used as an auxiliary | assistant grip when it mounts | wears a cane.

  As a result of intensive studies to solve the above problems, the present inventor has found that the following device meets the above purpose, and has reached the present device.

That is, the present invention relates to the following devices.
<1> A cane support device to be attached to a cane,
It is composed of a fixed part that can be detachably attached to an arbitrary position of the cane column to be attached, and a grip part having one end attached to the fixed part,
The grip portion can be swiveled between a position substantially parallel to the cane column and a position substantially perpendicular to the cane column when the fixed portion is attached to the cane column. Ingredients.
<2> The cane assisting device according to <1>, wherein a portion of the fixed portion that comes into contact with the support of the cane is made of an elastomer.
<3> The cane assisting device according to <1> or <2>, wherein the cane to be attached is a cane having a grip pattern on an upper end portion of the support column.

  The cane assisting device of the present invention can be attached to and detached from a commercially available cane, and can be used as an auxiliary grip when attached to the cane.

It is a perspective view (whole photograph) of the cane auxiliary tool which concerns on embodiment of this invention. It is an enlarged photograph of the fixing | fixed part in the cane auxiliary tool which concerns on embodiment of this invention, (a) is the state which has not decomposed | disassembled the fixing | fixed part, (b) shows the state which decomposed | disassembled the fixing | fixed part. It is an enlarged photograph of a grip part in a cane auxiliary implement concerning an embodiment of the present invention, (a) is a state where a grip part was extended, (b) is a state in the middle of folding a grip part, (c) is a grip part, respectively. The folded state is shown. It is a photograph which shows the state (parallel to a handle) which attached the cane auxiliary tool which concerns on embodiment of this invention to the cane. It is a photograph which shows the state (perpendicular to a handle) which attached the cane auxiliary tool which concerns on embodiment of this invention to the cane. It is a photograph which shows the use aspect of the cane auxiliary tool which concerns on embodiment of this invention, (a) is the state which the user sat down in the state which folded the grip part, (b) is used in the state which extended the grip part. The state where the person stands up.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to examples. However, the present invention is not limited to the following examples and the like, and can be arbitrarily modified without departing from the gist of the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view (overall photograph) of a walking stick assisting tool 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention.
The cane assisting tool 1 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a fixing part 10 including a first part 11 and a second part 12 and a grip part 20 having one end attached to the fixing part 10 as main parts. Is done. 2 and 3 show enlarged photographs of the fixed portion 10 and the grip portion 20, respectively.

  The first part 11 includes a first part 11 a having a shape corresponding to the second part 12 and a second part 11 b that is formed integrally with the first part 11 and is connected to the grip part 20. The Each of the first part 11 and the second part 12 has a semi-cylindrical recess corresponding to the shape of the support of the cane and positions (four places) corresponding to the first part 11 and the second part 12 respectively. Screw holes are formed. The first part 11 and the second part 12 are opposed to each other, and the cane support post to be attached is sandwiched and screwed (screwed) with the four screws S and the nuts N, so that the cane support is attached to the cane post. 1 can be installed.

  The size of the first component 11 and the second component 12 is such that the engaging portion 13 formed by the semi-cylindrical recess of the first component 11 and the second component 12 is the thickness of the support post to be mounted. It may be designed to correspond.

  The material of the first part 11 and the second part 12 constituting the fixing part 10 is arbitrary and is not particularly limited. However, the inside of the semi-cylindrical depressions of the first component 11 and the second component 12 is a portion that comes into contact with the support post of the cane to be mounted, and the first component 11 and the second component 12 are more firmly fixed to the cane. The inside of the semi-cylindrical recess of the component 12 is preferably made of an elastomer.

  In addition, in this embodiment, although the fixing | fixed part 10 is the 1st component 11 and the 2nd component 12 screwed together with the screw S and the nut N, the fixing | fixed part 10 is in arbitrary positions of the support | pillar of the cane which becomes mounting | wearing object. The structure is not limited as long as it can be detachably attached.

  3A to 3C are enlarged photographs of the grip portion 20. (A) shows a state in which the grip part 20 is extended, (b) shows a state in the middle of folding the grip part 20, and (c) shows a state in which the grip part 20 is folded.

  The grip part 20 should just be the length which a user can hold with one hand, and is about 10 cm normally. The material of the grip part 20 is arbitrary and is not particularly limited.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the grip portion 20 has one end engaged with the second part 11 b of the first component 11 constituting the fixed portion 10, and is in a horizontal position around the axis A (FIG. 3A). And a vertical position (FIG. 3 (c)).

FIG. 4 is a photograph in which the cane assisting tool 1 is attached to the cane 30. In the usage mode of the present embodiment, a general-purpose “T-shaped cane” including a support 31 and a rod-shaped grip 32 provided substantially vertically on the upper end 31 a of the support 31 is used as the cane 30.
The cane assisting tool 1 has a semi-cylindrical depression of the first part 11 and the second part 12 in a direction in which the rod-like grip 32 and the grip part 20 are substantially parallel when the grip part 20 is extended. The fixing part 10 is fixed to the support 31 by sandwiching the support 31 of the cane 30 with four screws S and nuts N (screwing).

  The cane assisting tool 1 can fix the fixing portion 10 to an arbitrary position of the support 31. Normally, when the user stands up from the seat, the grip handle 32 of the cane 30 and the grip part 20 of the cane assisting tool 1 are each held with one hand, and the cane assisting tool 1 is attached so as to be in the position where the most force can be applied.

  In the present embodiment, the cane assisting tool 1 is fixed in a direction in which the rod-shaped grip pattern 32 and the grip part 20 are substantially parallel when the grip part 20 is extended, but the present invention is not limited thereto. It is not necessary that the user is fixed in an appropriate direction in consideration of usability. For example, as shown in FIG. 5, the walking stick assisting tool 1 may be fixed in a direction in which the rod-shaped grip pattern 32 and the grip portion 20 are substantially vertical.

  In this embodiment, as the cane 30 to be mounted, a T-shaped cane composed of a rod-shaped grip 32 provided substantially perpendicular to the upper end portion 31a of the support 31 is used. The cane other than the T-shaped cane can be a target for wearing the cane assisting tool 1.

  In addition, as described above, the cane assisting tool 1 attaches the fixing portion 10 to the support post of the cane to be attached by the structure sandwiched between the first part 11 and the second part 12 that are screwed together with the screw S and the nut N. It can be mounted on any cane post corresponding to the size of the semi-cylindrical recess of the first part 11 and the second part 12, and most commercially available canes (about 2 to 3 cm in diameter of the post) are targeted. Become.

Based on FIG. 6, the typical usage aspect of the cane auxiliary tool which concerns on embodiment of this invention is demonstrated.
FIG. 6A is a state before the user is seated and standing up, and the cane assisting tool 1 is in a state where the grip portion 20 is folded upward with respect to the support 31 of the cane 30 (a position substantially perpendicular to the support 31). It is. Thus, when not using the cane auxiliary tool 1, it is normally used in the state which folded the grip part 20. FIG.

  FIG. 6B shows a standing state in which the user is seated using the cane assisting tool 1, where the user holds the handle 32 of the cane 30 with the right hand and is substantially parallel to the column 31 with the left hand. Grip the grip part 20 that is extended to stand up. Thus, since the grip handle 32 and the cane assisting tool 1 (grip part 20) are held and supported by both hands, the weight is distributed to both hands even in the middle waist state. Therefore, even a user with weak legs and legs such as an elderly person can easily stand up while being supported in a stable state.

  On the other hand, when sitting from a standing position using the cane 30, the user grasps the grip handle 32 and the cane assisting tool 1, and the body weight is distributed to both hands so that the body is supported in a stable state. It becomes easy.

  As mentioned above, although embodiment of this invention was described with reference to drawings, embodiment disclosed this time is an illustration and restrictive at no points. In particular, in the embodiment disclosed this time, matters that are not explicitly disclosed do not depart from the scope normally practiced by those skilled in the art and can be easily assumed by those skilled in the art. A value can be adopted.

  The cane assisting device of the present invention can be attached to and detached from any commercially available cane, and can be used as an auxiliary grip when attached to a cane. From a standing posture or a standing posture of a user such as an elderly person It is suitable for assisting seating.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Cane aid 10 Fixed part 11 1st part 11a 1st part 11b 2nd part 12 2nd part 13 Engagement part 20 Grip part 30 Cane 31 support | pillar 31a Upper end part 32 Grip handle A axis S Screw N Nut

Claims (3)

A cane auxiliary device to be attached to a cane,
It is composed of a fixed part that can be detachably attached to an arbitrary position of the cane column to be attached, and a grip part having one end attached to the fixed part,
The grip portion is pivotable between a position substantially parallel to the cane column and a position substantially perpendicular to the cane column when the fixing portion is attached to the cane column. Cane assistive device characterized by.   The cane auxiliary tool according to claim 1, wherein a portion of the fixing portion that comes into contact with the support column of the cane is made of an elastomer.   The cane assisting device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the cane to be attached is a cane having a grip handle on an upper end portion of the support column.