Abstract: A seat assembly for use with a conventional walker is designed to be adjustably attached to walkers of different shapes and sizes. Once the seat assembly is attached to a walker, the seat may be moved up into an inoperative position and held there by magnets. When a user of the walker wished to sit down, the foldable seat may be pulled downwardly into an operative position to facilitate the user's desires.

Abstract: A walker having a unique leg support system in which the walker's two stationary front legs are interchangeable at the user's discretion with two wheeled front legs, both types of legs being height adjustable relative to the walker's framework. The wheeled front legs are connectable to the walker's frame so the wheels can be oriented on either the outboard or the inboard of the walker's front leg. Each wheeled front leg includes a wheel axle and a pivot axle connected thereto, the pivot axle being pivotably connected to a front leg so the front leg can roll along a support surface, e.g., ground, on the wheel when the wheel is pivoted to a first position and so the front leg's foot can stand stationary on the support surface when the wheel is pivoted to a second position.

Abstract: A baby walker is provided and includes a base, seat for carrying a load, a frame operably connecting the base and the seat for permitting relative movement of the seat and the base between a fully collapsed position and at least two elevated positions, and a control system coupled to the base for selectively engaging the frame to position the seat in one of the at least two elevated positions to aid in preventing inadvertent movement of the seat to its fully collapsed position. The base includes a pair of eccentrically mounted pivot arms for lowering the base to a braking position upon movement of a support wheel on one of the pivot arms over an edge of an underlying surface.

Abstract: The collapsible walking frame for use by an invalid comprises a pair of interconnected spaced side frames (10, 12) each including a front member (14) having a handgrip (18) and a rear member (24) pivotally connected to the front member (14). A seat (28) pivotally connected between the front members (14) is movable from an inoperative vertical position to an operative horizontal position. The seat (28) is horizontally supported in the operative position on rear brace (26) and held in the vertical position by being fastened to front brace (22). The front and rear members of the side frames are stably supported in the operative position of the frame by pivotal locking side braces (27) which permit pivotal folding of the frame to the inoperative storage position.

Abstract: A therapeutic walker has features which permit its use by persons with varying degrees of disability and is capable of adaptation to be used in different ways as the level of disability diminishes. A walker frame extends substantially around three sides of the region occupied by person using the walker and a removable closure bar is attached across the frame on its open side. An elongated crotch-cradling panel of flexible material is removably attached between the closure bar and the frame on the opposite side of the walker. The person using the walker straddles the crotch-cradling panel which is adjustable in length for persons of different sizes. The legs of the walker are adjustable in height and terminate in removable or retractable casters. A person using the walker can either sit down on the seat or stand up in the walker (with appropriate adjustments being made in the length of the legs).

Abstract: A safety brake for a self-propelled child vehicle, such as a baby walker. The vehicle has a frame supported on wheels and the safety brake is constituted by a support rod pivotally secured at opposed connecting ends thereof to the frame and defining a vehicle support section and a bridge section between the support section and the connecting ends. The support rod is displaceable from a disengaged position, where the vehicle is freely displaceable on its wheels on a surface, to an engaged position, where the support section rests on the surface with at least some of the wheels lifted above the surface whereby to arrest the vehicle.

Abstract: A ratchet-type catch assembly is disclosed for attachment as a slide connection between a scissors frame and an object supported by the frame. While one leg of the scissors frame is fixed to the object in a hinge-type, nonsliding manner and the other in sliding manner, the assembly forms part of the latter, providing a series of locking catches at successively varying angles of the scissors frame, and the discrete graduated heights of the object. The pawl and ratchet stops are oriented to permit vertical elongation of the frame by the application of upward force to the object, while preventing collapse. The catch is opened by release of the pawl, permitting complete collapse of the frame to a flattened configuration.

Abstract: A walker provided with a nonremovable flexible material seat of sufficient slack for comfortable sitting, suspended from a pair of upper level horizontal brace members on parallel opposite sides of the walker frame, by directly attaching a rectangular piece of strong flexible material onto said pair of oppositely positioned horizontal brace members.

Abstract: An improved walker, wherein the improvement comprises:a. a tray having slidable supports removably mountable within brackets disposed on the rear legs of the walker, with said tray further having hooks engageable on a horizontal support rod of the walker for storage;b. a removably mountable seat whose two lateral edges each extend beyond and rest upon support rods, with said seat having lateral movement stops to prohibit seat movement during use, and with said seat further having hooks engageable on a horizontal support rod of the walker for mounting or for storage; andc. a back rest disposed behind and mounted to an upper support rod extending between the legs at the front of the walker.

Abstract: A portable seat for mounting on an invalid walker enabling a walking invalid to sit and rest until strength is recovered sufficiently to continue walking. The seat comprises a rectangular, foldable sheet of material of sufficient strength to support a person. The seat can be readily attached to the walker for seating to rest and readily detached for carrying on the person in pocket or purse for walking. The seat is adjustable in one or more respects and can be mounted on the more complex of common walkers, such as some foldable swinging walkers, without making holes in or structural changes to frame members. Four hooks are detachably connected to respective frame members by means of ordinary hose clamps. A metal ring is attached to the sheet at each corner thereof and the sheet is attached to the walker by placing each ring on a respective hook. The seat can be manufactured from readily available common parts and installed using common skills and tools.

Abstract: Walkers are provided with an upholstered seat which can be suspended from a pair of horizontal members on opposite side of the walker frame, so that the user may rest when not walking. The seat is comfortable, safe and can be stowed on the walker when not needed or completely removed. Such seats can be sold separately and easily retrofitted to existing walkers.

Abstract: This is an apparatus which has universal application for invalids who have lost much of the functioning of their limbs and other portions of their bodies such as paraplegics and the like. The apparatus is characterized by being composed of a number of tubular elements formed into a frame and having attachments of such nature that a person in a wheel chair may approach the frame and pull himself into position within the frame and with the use of various attachments about his legs and other portions of his body is able to stand, to walk and to exercise without the assistance of other persons.

Abstract: A wheelchair for the transportation of a disabled person throughout the cabin of a transportation vehicle and into a lavatory of the vehicle having a bench type toilet, the wheelchair having a seat stabilizer extendable therefrom to engage the top surface of the toilet, a translating seat assembly for the disabled person with a seat opening transferable over the toilet opening, and a slidable foot rest for the person during transportation on the vehicle and when using the toilet. To prevent sidewise tipping, stabilizer bars can be moved outwardly from the sides of the seat assembly to engage the top surface of the toilet.

Abstract: An invalid walker is disclosed. The walker comprises a pair of side frames each including two vertical legs joined by transverse members, an X-shaped frame comprising two cross-members pivotally connected to each other and joining the side frames at the front of the walker, with the upper ends of the cross-members being pivotally mounted on the upper ends of the legs and the lower ends of said cross-members being slidably mounted on the lower ends of the legs for permitting folding of the walker, a removable seat assembly which may be mounted on the side frames at the rear of the walker after entrance of the invalid into the walker, and means at the side frames at the front of the walker for maintaining the side frames apart during use.

Abstract: A mobility aid comprises a four-legged walking frame characterized by the front legs of the frame having ground-engaging wheels with axes movable in unison in the direction of the lengths of the legs, by one-way wheel-driving means responsive to upwards movement of said wheel axes to cause forward rotational motion of the wheels, and by resilient means acting to urge said wheel axes downwardly of the front legs.In the freestanding condition of the frame, the resilient means lift the front of the frame so that when the frame is pressed down by the user bearing down on the frame, the wheels are caused to rotate in the sense to cause forward movement of the aid, the rear legs dragging as a result. A repeated bearing down action, easily accomplished even by the severely handicapped, thus results in easily controllable forward motion of the aid.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed having a generally U-shaped horizontal top rail delineating the front and two sides of the apparatus, the rear of the apparatus being open. Four legs depend from the top rail in the general form of a cubic trapezoid delineating the four upright edges of the apparatus. A seat is pivotally mounted to a first of the four legs and is lockingly engageable with the second of the four legs thereby closing the rear of the apparatus. A knee pad is located between the third and fourth legs and situated with respect to the seat so as to permit the user of the apparatus to assume a standing or a semi-sitting position.

Abstract: A walker for invalid persons is described having a three sided frame structure permitting an invalid patient to lift the structure, place it in a forward position, and then walk into the cavity of the structure and also providing means for seating the party interiorly to the frame structure with seat means that automatically swings up and out of the way when seating is not desired.

Abstract: A walker which comprises a pair of interconnecting side frames. Each of the side frames includes a pair of upright legs and a hand grip bar connecting upper end portions of the legs. A caster is adapted to support each leg. A spring is mounted in association with each caster to urge the leg associated therewith to a raised position in which the lower end of the associated leg is spaced above a surface on which the casters run. The springs yield when weight is applied to the bars to cause the lower ends of the legs to engage the supporting surface to lock the walker in position.

Abstract: An invalid support device which includes the capabilities of acting as a back support for an invalid when in a sitting position and further to serve as a walker to support an invalid in a walking position and also including a seat support whereby the invalid may sit and rest within the invalid supporting device when it is utilized as a walker.The device includes a frame structure and body support member which may be utilized in several positions on the invalid supporting device depending upon the use desired.