Patents by Inventor Leslie W. Austin

Leslie W. Austin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5324060
    Abstract: A wheelchair cycle apparatus that includes a frame to which is attached a connecting device for connecting the frame to a wheelchair. A drive wheel and driven wheel are attached to the frame. A pair of pedals are attached to either the drive wheel or the driven wheel depending upon whether the user can move his/her own legs. A chain connects the drive wheel to the driven wheel. The wheelchair cycle apparatus may be connected to the frame of a wheelchair to produce a wheelchair assembly that enables a disabled individual to exercise his/her own legs while seated in the wheelchair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 28, 1994
    Assignees: Charles R. Van Vooren, Leslie W. Austin
    Inventors: Charles R. Van Vooren, Leslie W. Austin
  • Patent number: 5066032
    Abstract: An apparatus including a wheel chair, with a horizontal mount positioned between upper and lower horizontal framework members of the wheel chair, with a yoke member secured to the mount positioned interiorly of the wheel chair framework. A bicycle structure includes a forward and rear wheel mounted within a framework, with the framework further including drive crank mounted to the frame of the bicycle adjacent an upper tubular extent of the framework, and wherein the bicycle includes a rearwardly directed boss member securable to the yoke of the wheel chair, wherein the boss member is spaced above a lower contact portion of a rear wheel of the bicycle a predetermined distance greater than a spacing of the yoke relative to a bottom contact surface of a forward wheel assembly of the wheel chair to elevate a forward end of the wheel chair in securement to the bicycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 19, 1991
    Inventors: Charles R. Van Vooren, Leslie W. Austin