Jeffery Goldstein

US Patent:

58065482, Sep 15, 1998

Filed:

Jul 3, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/675049

Inventors:

Jeffery P. Goldstein - San Diego CA
Herb J. Barrack - San Diego CA
Albert A. Williams - San Diego CA

International Classification:

A45B 100

US Classification:

135 65

Abstract:

A special configured rehabilitating quadcane implement providing major advancements in the art; including: a. ) positive vertical incremental adjustment of staff height to suit user; b. ) the staff is readily rotatable 180. degree. , so as to facilitate both left and right hand usage; c. ) during final stages of rehib-recovery the cane-staff may be extracted from the quadleged-base spider via provision of a special safety-lock turn-flap device, enabling monocane use; d. ) each of the quadlegs are independently adjustable as to ground-spread, thereby accommodating different stability requirements of patients. Most of the adjustments are provided via a well known spring-tensioned button-detent indexing device, whereby detent-holes are staged at regular intervals. Moreover, the adjustable quadlegged-base enables the user to align the leading edges of the two frontal-legs, so that the cane staff rocks forward exactly inline with the direction of walking.