JPH10192081A - Chair pad for wheel chair - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a chair pad which does not prevent a wheel chair from being folded even when the pad is mounted to a seat. SOLUTION: The chair pads for a wheel chair is constituted by connecting a pair of right and left chair pads 2 and 2 wrapped by an external cover 3 in the state of being freely foldable to form a chair pad main body and providing fixing belts 5 and 5 to wind around the seat of the wheel chair from front/ back sides for this main body 1. Even at the time of folding the wheel chair in the state of winding the belts 5 and 5 from the front/back sides of the seat to mount the main body 1 to the seat, the connection part 4 of the pads 2 and 2 is folded like a valley and the main body 1 is folded along the seat.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a cushion for use in a wheelchair.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In general, a manual wheelchair is designed to be folded right and left from the center of a seat. For this reason, a thin sheet material having poor cushioning properties and heat retention properties is used for the seat, and the seating comfort is poor. Therefore, wheelchair users often lay a cushion on the seat.

[0003] This cushion is a cushion wrapped in a bag-like sewn outer skin, and is usually fixed to the seat with a hook-and-loop fastener or the like in order to prevent slippage on the seat.

[0004]

However, since such a cushion cannot be folded along the seat, it has to be removed from the seat when folding the wheelchair, which is troublesome.

[0005] It is an object of the present invention to provide a cushion that allows a wheelchair to be folded while being mounted on a seat.

[0006]

In order to solve these problems, according to the present invention, a pair of left and right cushions wrapped in an outer skin are foldably connected to form a cushion body, and the cushion body is attached to a wheelchair seat. The company provided a wheelchair cushion with a fixed belt to be wound around.

In such a cushion, even if a wheelchair is folded in a state in which the cushion is wound around the seat from the front and rear of the seat and the cushion is attached to the seat, the connecting portion of the cushion is folded in a valley and the cushion is moved along the seat. It will be bent.

[0008]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. As shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the cushion body 1 has a configuration in which a pair of urethane cushions 2, 2 arranged on the left and right sides are wrapped with a cloth outer skin 3.

The outer skin 3 is formed by sewing a front cloth 3a covering the upper surface of the cushion 2 and a back cloth 3b covering the lower surface thereof along the outer periphery of each cushion 2, 2. Of the connecting portion 4 is bendable. The upper surfaces of the cushions 2 and 2 are formed in a wavy shape to prevent bedsores.

At the front edge and the rear edge of the cushion body 1,
Fixing belts 5 and 5 are attached, respectively, and surface fasteners 6 and 6 that are coupled to each other are provided at the distal ends of the fixing belts 5 and 5.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, such a cushion is wound around the seat S of the wheelchair C from the front and rear, and the hook-and-loop fasteners 6, 6 are connected to the seat S, as shown in FIGS. Mounting.

When the wheelchair C is folded in this state, the cushions 2, 2 are trough-folded from the connecting portion 4, and the cushion body 1 is folded along the seat S, as shown in FIG.

When the cushion body 1 is mounted on the seat S, the fixing belts 5, 5 are wound around the seat S, so that the wheels located on both sides of the seat S can be easily mounted without obstruction. The shift of the cushion body 1 in the front-rear direction with respect to the seat S can be reliably prevented.

[0014]

As described above, the wheelchair cushion of the present invention can be folded even when it is mounted on the seat, so that the trouble of removing the chair from the seat at the time of folding is eliminated.

Further, the cushion body can be attached to the seat without the wheelchair wheels being in the way, and the cushion body can be reliably prevented from shifting in the front-rear direction with respect to the seat.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing a cushion for a wheelchair according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a sectional view taken along the line II-II shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a front view showing a state where the cushion for a wheelchair shown in FIG. 1 is mounted on a wheelchair;

FIG. 4 is a side view showing a main part of the above.

FIG. 5 is a front view showing a state in which the wheelchair is folded.

[Explanation of symbols]

 C Wheelchair S Seat 1 Cushion body 2 Cushion 3 Outer skin 3a Front cloth 3b Back cloth 4 Connecting part 5 Fixed belt 6 Surface fastener

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A cushion for a wheelchair, wherein a pair of left and right cushions wrapped in an outer skin are foldably connected to form a cushion body, and a fixed belt is provided on the cushion body so as to be wound around a wheelchair from the front and back.