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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 1987
Filed:
Apr. 14, 1986
Tom M Jensen, Everett, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A wheelchair for transporting a physically handicapped person down the narrow aisle of a commercial passenger airplane. The wheelchair comprises a fixed back frame structure having a pair of rear caster wheels mounted to the lower end thereof and a pair of front wheels mounted on an extendable front wheel frame assembly which includes a foot rest member at the front end thereof. The rear caster wheels provide directional control. The wheelchair can be manipulated into any of the following modes: (1) a folded arrangement that can be stowably secured by a plurality of catches against a vertical wall in the passenger compartment of an aircraft or the like; (2) with the wheelchair assembly still secured to the wall a seat pan is pulled down against a seat return spring and is usable as a flight attendant's seat; and (3) the folded wheelchair is completely detached from the plurality of retaining catches and fully extended to function as a wheelchair with a pair of handles extending rearwardly for an assistant's use.