Device to assist paraplegics with getting dressed

摘要

The Device to Assist Paraplegics with Getting Dressed is designed to lift a person that has a spinal cord injury or minimal use of their legs above the seat of a wheel chair, or a toilet seat, allowing easy slipping on or off of the pants. The device may be wall mounted wall adjacent to a seating fixture. The device may be mounted on a “free standing” frame, which may have wheels to make it easy to move around and may easily fold up for storage. To use the device a person will, with their arms out to their sides horizontally, put the armpit rest under their arm pit area. On reaching down towards the pants, the armpit rest will turn from horizontal to a vertical position, lifting them up enough to slip the pants on or off.

主权项

1. An apparatus to assist paraplegics with getting dressed comprising:
at least one armpit rest having an armpit rest thickness, at least one approximately flat lateral side and an armpit rest edge, with an armpit rest lobe of the at least one armpit rest having an armpit rest lobe height, with the armpit rest lobe height greater than the armpit rest thickness, with at least one lateral support securely attached to the at least one armpit rest, with a rotational support securely affixed to the at least one lateral support and capable of allowing the at least one armpit rest to rotate radially from an approximately horizontal position to an approximately vertical position and to return the at least one armpit rest to the approximately horizontal position, with the rotational support having at least one energy storage device affixed to the at least one lateral support and the at least one energy storage device is capable of storing and releasing energy sufficient to rotate the at least one armpit rest from the approximately vertical position to the approximately horizontal position, and at least one vertical support securely affixed to the at least one lateral support.