National Research Development Corporation

Graham E Mead

John D Harris

Michael F Fogden

A power assisted wheelchair has a pair of larger ground wheels with handwheels mounted thereon and a pair of smaller castor wheels carrying motors drivably coupled therewith. The handwheels are rotatable relative to their ground wheels against a spring bias and operate the castor wheel motors on the corresponding sides of the chair through respective switch mechanisms. Variations of this arrangement are possible to suit different ground wheel configurations, the motors can be energized in increasing manner, the motors can be disconnected when the castors turn rearwardly, and the motors can drive through freewheel mechanisms.

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Oxford, United Kingdom

Graham E Mead