Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A45—HAND OR TRAVELLING ARTICLES
  • A45B—WALKING STICKS; UMBRELLAS; LADIES' OR LIKE FANS
  • A45B9/00—Details
  • A45B9/04—Ferrules or tips
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
  • A61H3/00—Appliances for aiding patients or disabled persons to walk about
  • A61H3/02—Crutches
  • A61H3/0288—Ferrules or tips therefor
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
  • A63C—SKATES; SKIS; ROLLER SKATES; DESIGN OR LAYOUT OF COURTS, RINKS OR THE LIKE
  • A63C11/00—Accessories for skiing or snowboarding
  • A63C11/22—Ski-sticks
  • A63C11/24—Rings for ski-sticks

Definitions

• the invention relates to a safety walking aid, in particular a safety walking aid.
• Walking aids are known in a wide variety of forms and for a wide variety of uses, in the most general form, for example, as a walking stick or mountain stick. A distinction is also made between crutches and crutches. What these walking aids have in common is that they are essentially stick-like and have a walking aid foot that is usually used as a rubber
• SUBSTITUTE or plastic base is formed in a cylindrical shape.
• This known walking aid foot usually also allows a safe, in particular non-slip placement on carpets, parquet, linoleum and other apartment floors as well as on sidewalks, streets and forest paths and other surfaces on which a walking aid user usually moves. Mainly on paths with the latter surfaces, however, there is a disadvantageous change, especially in the cold season, when these floors become smooth or slippery.
• the walking aids or the walking aid feet no longer find a firm hold, with the result that the users of the walking aids can only very easily support them and the walking aids are no longer effective support or relief.
• the object of the invention disclosed here is to remedy the situation, in particular to provide a walking aid that enables a non-slip placement even under difficult conditions.
• a ski pole as at least the lower part of a walking aid, such as a walking stick, a crutch stick, a crutch or the like.
• ski poles there has always been the problem of providing a hold on smooth or soft ground, which enables reliable support or taking turns.
• the ski poles are, because skiing is based on a completely different sequence of movements. lies, as such, to be used directly as a walking aid only if certain losses in comfort are accepted.
• Ski poles are usually longer than the walking aids mentioned here and are gripped to the side, while walking aids are essentially supported from above. So far, these differences have probably also been an obstacle to proposing the use taught here.
• a ski pole can basically be used as such as a walking aid
• the use proposed here teaches in particular to use a ski pole only as a lower part of a walking aid, i. H. leave the walking aid as such in terms of size and unchanged with regard to the handle or the like.
• the aim of the use proposed according to the invention is to improve known walking aids with regard to their slip resistance or generally their safety.
• ski pole that has a snow support body in the form of a shell body that is at least partially open downward. This counteracts the danger that the tapered lower end of the ski pole or the walking aid foot will impair sensitive floors or floor coverings.
• a shell body also offers significantly improved slip resistance compared to an ordinary walking aid foot.
• the shell body engages in a softer surface, such as a snow surface; the walking aid foot no longer tends to slide.
• a relatively hard lower surface different behavior can result depending on the material properties of the snow support body (the walking aid foot). If, for example, the shell body is made of a relatively hard plastic, the shell body can only bend itself slightly, so that the shell body can only be partially attached to an uneven surface or when the walking aid is placed forward or backwards, which can result in a leads to a more or less distracting reaction force in the walking aid, which tries to pull the hand or arm of the walking aid user away.
• the ⁇ Materia of the shell body is selected to be relatively soft, the shell body will buckle uncontrollably when the load is off-center, depending on the special mounting conditions. Since in this case the edge area is also relatively soft in the same way, the shell body can also bend completely, so that the edge of the shell body is no longer seated on the lower surface, so the walking aid may not grip at all.
• this ski pole is proposed in a preferred embodiment that the shell body has an - inner - structural body has in the edge region of the shell body an exposed, not enclosed by plastic contact edge, this structural body is preferably a - rustproof - metallic body.
• a further special embodiment of the teaching given here is to see the end region of the skstock (of the walking aid foot) with a cover cap.
• the walking aid foot with cover cap can be used, on the other hand, if the walking aid is used on a ground where there is a risk of slipping or sliding off, the cover cap can simply be removed.
• the use of a such a cap is not limited to a ski pole or a ski pole tip according to the European patent application mentioned.
• an ordinary ski pole of a conventional type with a simple tip can also be covered with a suitable plastic cap, which then gives the walking aid the appearance of a conventional walking foot, but in the same way when the user is himself wants to move on smooth or slippery surfaces, can be removed.
• ski pole with a shell body in particular one according to the European one Patent application, is also associated with the advantage that due to the relatively large diameter of the shell body, in particular on a soft surface, a lower surface pressure is obtained, for example on soft grass or the like observing sinking occurs.
• a ski pole in accordance with the European patent application in question with the shell body and the integrated structural body described there is considered to be particularly advantageous, but the success sought in principle with the use proposed here can also be achieved if the walking aid foot is only in the Principle based on the structure described there, therefore, has a plastic body with an integrated structural body, which forms an exposed attachment edge not enclosed by plastic in the edge region of the plastic body.
• the deflection collar can be dispensed with in principle.
• the walking aid foot can also be essentially cylindrical, as is customary in the case of known walking aids. Nevertheless, the usability of this walking aid foot on sensitive floors can also be ensured here by additionally using a cover cap.
• the cap itself is claimed for the made for themselves protection, is characterized in a preferred embodiment, by a gripping edge of, areas with the Rand ⁇ of 'on the Geh Anlagennfuß in the preferred Ver ⁇ then formed shell body application on tangible are.
• a partial or section-by-section design of the gripping edge can be used for the intended purpose.
• the cap itself has an essentially rotationally symmetrical shape when the ski pole described in the above-mentioned European application is used.
• the cover cap also has an inner counter gripping edge which is likewise at least partially formed, the designation "inner” referring to the fact that this gripping edge rests on the inside at the edge region of the attachment edge.
• cover cap has a closed profile, i. H. it completely covers the cavity created by the shell body downwards.
• the cover cap has a central, outer centering cam, which is additionally advantageous with regard to a secure gripping of the walking aid foot.
• the cover cap also lies on the inside of a tip, which is designed as a center shape in the shell body of the ski pole which is preferably used. If another shell body of a ski pole is used which does not have such a central shape, this corresponding shape can also be easily integrated into the cover cap.
• the advantage of such a shape or the interaction of the cover cap with the shape is that the cover cap only insignificantly returns into the interior of the shell body when it is placed on a base. gives way, i.e. is supported.
• the inventor furthermore relates to a walking aid with a walking aid stick and a walking aid foot, at least the walking aid foot being a snow support body of a ski pole, with one or more of the features listed in the description of the European patent application already mentioned above, and further teaching the walking aid stick has a connecting piece at the end.
• This connecting piece can essentially be an approximately cylindrical mandrel, which has a reduced diameter compared to the walking aid stick. It is particularly preferably provided that the walking aid stick is tubular at least in its lower region so that the connecting piece has a shoulder which projects into the walking aid stick and can be pressed into it.
• FIG. 1 shows a cross section through a walking aid foot according to the invention
• Fig. 2 is a perspective sectional view of a cover cap according to the invention.
• a walking aid foot 37 is shown and described first in FIG. 1, as it presents itself as at least the lower part of a walking aid when using a ski pole proposed with the present invention, in particular when using a ski pole as described in European patent application 83 111 292.2 (publication number 0 114 953).
• the walking aid foot 37 initially consists essentially of a shell body 2 into which an inner structural body 15 is integrated. Furthermore, the walking aid foot 37 has a mounting opening 11 which receives a shaft section 38 of the connecting piece 36. An upper section of the connecting piece 36 is pressed into the walking aid stick 35. In addition, the connecting piece 36 also has a stop surface 39 which limits the slidability of the walking aid stick 5 downwards.
• the shell body 2 of the walking aid foot 37 is covered at the bottom with a cover cap 33 which has a gripping edge 31 and a counter gripping edge 32.
• the gripping edge 31 and the counter gripping edge 32 comprise an edge area 5 of the shell body 2.
• the cover cap 33 has a central ring 40 which, when the cover cap 33 is subjected to an external load, moves upward from below and comes into contact with the shell body 2, that is to say, like the center shape 6 described below, the mobility the cap 33 limited.
• center formation 6 With regard to the center formation 6, it can be seen that its tip lies directly on the inner surface of the cover cap 33, which, as is illustrated in FIG. 2, has a recess 41 in the region of the center formation, but this recess by means of webs 42 is crossed like a cross, so that a corresponding counter surface is formed with respect to the center formation 6.
• the covering cap 33 also represents a wearing part.
• this also leads to a further advantage of the invention, because in contrast to known walking aids, the covering cap 33 can be used in the walking aid proposed here. which is equivalent to the sole of a shoe in the way it is used - can be renewed very easily.
• the connecting piece 36 is firmly connected to the walking aid foot 37, which can be used, for example, as a retrofit part, and for connection to one (already existing) walking aid stick 35 has an overlapping cap in the form of a hollow cylinder, into which the walking aid stick 35 can then be inserted or clamped.
• the cover cap can in particular consist of rubber or plastic, for example PVC.

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