Head rest attachment for wheel chairs

Claim 2

An attachment for a wheel chair having rearwardly extending mutually parallel tubular handles adapted to be grasped by a person pushing the chair, comprising a headrest assembly including a pair of upwardly extending spaced legs converging toward each other, a bridging member connecting the upper ends of said legs to form an inverted substantially V-shaped frame, said bridging member being a single hand grip for said wheel chair, a cushion secured to said legs on one side of said frame and spaced below said bridging member, the lower ends of said legs having mutually parallel tubular extensions extending from said one side of said frame and being laterally spaced from each other the same distance as the distance between said handles, said handles and said extensions having complementary diameters to permit slideable interengagement of each of said handles and one of said extensions, said attachment being selectively adapted to be mounted on said chair with said legs extending upward from said handles or with said legs extending downward from said handles.

Claim 3

An attachment according to claim 1, having releasable means for interlocking said extensions and said handles when interengaged as aforesaid.

Claim 4

An attachment according to claim 2, said releasable means comprising two pins, each of the interengaged extensions and handles having a set of mutually aligned holes therethrough, each of said pins being insertible in one of the sets of mutually aligned holes.

Claim 5

An attachment according to claim 3, having chains connecting said pins to said frame.

Claim 6

An attachment according to claim 1, said frame having a board interposed between said cushion and said legs.

Claim 7

An attachment according to claim 5, said board having a hole extending at least part way thereinto on the side thereof facing said cushion, said hole being positioned substantially intermediate the width and height of said board.

Claim 8

An attachment according to claim 1, said bridging member being arcuate and bulging upward with respect to said cushion.

Claim 9

An attachment according to claim 1, said extensions having a smaller external diameter than the internal diameter of said handles.

Claim 10

A combination of an attachment for a wheel chair having rearwardly extending mutually parallel tubular handles adapted to be grasped by a person pushing the chair and means for maintaining the wheel chair in a tilted position comprising a headrest assembly including a pair of upwardly extending spaced legs converging toward each other, a bridging member connecting the upper ends of said legs to form an inverted substantially V-shaped frame, said bridging member being a single hand grip for said wheel chair, a cushion secured to said legs on one side of said frame and spaced below said bridging member, the lower ends of said legs having mutually parallel tubular extensions extending from said one side of said frame and being laterally spaced from each other the same distance as the distance between said handles, said handles and said extensions having complementary diameters to permit sliDeable interengagement of each of said handles and one of said extensions, said attachment being selectively adapted to be mounted on said chair with said legs extending upward from said handles or with said legs extending downward from said handles, and a rigid retaining member mounted on a fixed support whereby said hand grip bridging member may be releasably engaged by said retaining member in order to maintain said wheel chair in said tilted position.

Claim 11

A combination of an attachment for a wheel chair having rearwardly extending mutually parallel tubular handles adapted to be grasped by a person pushing the chair and means for maintaining the wheel chair in a tilted position comprising a headrest assembly including a pair of upwardly extending spaced legs converging toward each other, a bridging member connecting the upper ends of said legs to form an inverted substantially V-shaped frame, said bridging member being a single hand grip for said wheel chair, a cushion secured to said legs on one side of said frame and spaced below said bridging member, the lower ends of said legs having mutually parallel tubular extensions extending from said one side of said frame and being laterally spaced from each other the same distance as the distance between said handles, said handles and said extensions having complementary diameters to permit sliDeable interengagement of each of said handles and one of said extensions, said attachment being selectively adapted to be mounted on said chair with said legs extending upward from said handles or with said legs extending downward from said handles, and a rigid retaining member mounted on a fixed support whereby said hand grip bridging member may be releasably engaged by said retaining member in order to maintain said wheel chair in said tilted position.

Claim 12

The combination as claimed in claim 9 wherein said rigid retaining member is a hook.