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The document describes a wheelchair infant/toddler carrier designed by Joel Goldberg and Yossi Mor. The carrier attaches to a wheelchair using spring-loaded pins that engage with holes drilled into the wheelchair armrest tubes. Straps secure the carrier. Photos show the attachment points and a mother using the carrier while in her wheelchair. The carrier allows a parent who uses a wheelchair to safely carry their infant.
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- 1. Skip to Content The Internet's One-Stop Resource for Parents with Disabilities Menu Wheelchair Infant/Toddler Carrier Submitted by Joel Home What Is the Parent Conceived: Malka Goldberg Empowerment Network? Design and technical specifications: Yossi Mor, professional engineer Learn about the first and best e- mail community for parents with Fabrication: Yad Sarah workshops, Jerusalem. disabilities. Resources for Parents Photo1 with Disabilities Wheelchairs generally have adjustable Books/Audio armrests, to accomodate variation in Medical heights. Malka's chair has had four Information Web Resources holes, two on each side, drilled into the Adaptive/Adaptable tubes in the frame in which the Parenting Products armrests slide. A spring loaded pin has Organizations been added to each armrest. The Toys and armrests can be positioned either up or Recreation Magazines and down, with the the pin engaging the Periodicals corresponding hole. The picture shows the right armrest in Our Stories Read articles written by parents the up position and the left arm rest in with disabilities, on various the down position. The bottom hole on aspects of parenting. the right is circled in red. The top hole, About This Site with the pin engaged, is circled in Other Disability Links green. Feedback The carrier itself also has spring loaded pins that engage holes on the front of the Send an E-mail armrests. The hole in the front of the right armrest is circled in blue. Photo 2 This is a side view. Again, the bottom hole in the armrest support tube is circled in red, the top hole, with the pin engaged is circled in green, while the front hole where the carrier's own pin engages is circled in blue. Photo 3 The carrier is made from a standard Gerry brand backpack child carrier. It has been cut up and the straps removed and re- converted by Web2PDFConvert.com
- 2. attached in various places. The backpack's original aluminum tube was replaced with a sturdier steel tube that is itself wrapped with foam padding and covered in vinyl. The pin to engage the hole in the front of the armrest is circled in blue. The tube supports the front of the carrier. The back of the carrier is supported by straps around the armrests. The yellow arrows point to the buckles for the right side straps. The left side straps are also visible. The additional strap visible is one of two that can be used to strap the baby into the carrier. We almost never do this. Photo 4 Both armrests are in the up position and the carrier has been inserted. The carrier pin engaged in the hole on the front of the armrest is visible. The yellow arrow points to where a carrier strap goes behind the upright of the armrest. Photo 5 In operation. As you can see, we don't generally strap the baby in. The original carrier has a sling seat for smaller babies, which can be removed as the child grows. This remains in the modified carrier. And yes, the baby is sold separately. ;-) Back to Adaptive Parenting Aids converted by Web2PDFConvert.com
- 3. The Web Access Symbol indicates that this page is designed to be accessible to people with disabilities. For more information, see "About This Site" or contact the National Center for Accessible Media. If you have any accessibility problems with this page, let us know by sending us an email. converted by Web2PDFConvert.com