JP4478426B2 - Barber equipment for wheelchair users - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a wheelchair-compatible barber facility that makes it easier for wheelchair users to receive barber services such as haircuts.

Various techniques for making it easier for wheelchair users to receive barber services have been proposed. While many of these is to facilitate the barber service shampooing or the like to be able to approximate the wheelchair and Barber equipment, when taking a movable structure, for example, shampoo for a sink or the like in the hairdressing equipment side, the equipment It is not realistic to introduce it in barber shops where the business scale is too large.

In addition, a wheelchair itself has been proposed that allows the backrest to be reclined backwards, but in this case, it is difficult for some users to take a posture in which the upper body is tilted backward from the normal sitting posture and turned upward. In some cases, it is not necessarily a versatile measure.
Rather, from the actual situation of the wheelchair user, it is much less burdensome for the wheelchair user to tilt the wheelchair backward while keeping the sitting posture on the wheelchair.

By the way, in consideration of such an actual situation, equipment for tilting the wheelchair backward and receiving a barber service has been proposed (Patent Document 1).
However, in this prior art, a wheelchair support base must be installed on the floor surface, and a function capable of tilting backward with respect to the support base must be provided, and the device itself must be set at a fixed price. This method does not have practical simplicity.
JP 2001-19390 A

  The present invention has been made in view of such a background, and pays attention to the fact that the axle of the wheelchair itself is rotatable in relation to the seating portion of the wheelchair. The technical challenge is to develop a new wheelchair-compatible barber equipment that can be used with a leaning posture while maintaining a sitting posture under a very simple configuration, assuming that it will be used as a dynamic axis. is there.

That wheelchair of hairdressing equipment according to claim 1, wherein, in the hairdressing device near the barber room, while the wheelchair user seated in the seat which is supported by the wheelchair frame, haircut and in normal posture, the rear inclined posture It is a barber facility that can receive barber services such as hair washing at
A support member that supports and holds the wheelchair tilted backward is provided in the vicinity of the barber equipment, and a lift that can be raised and lowered for placing the wheelchair is used in the vicinity of the support member and used for washing the hair. With a hair washing sink
A slope is provided at the rear part of the lift so that the wheelchair can be smoothly climbed, and when not in use, the slope can be stored in a flipped state so as to stand up behind the main wheel of the wheelchair. The stay portion is provided with a vertically disposed stay portion and a support portion provided above the stay portion, and the stay portion is inserted into a stay insertion hole provided on the floor surface of the barber room, and is configured to be inclined backwards such as shampooing. when receiving a barber service performed by the support member is made not approach is allowed, whereas backward inclined so as to be located immediately below the both user's head said hair sink that is installed on a floor surface When receiving barber services such as haircuts, the support members are removed from the floor so that they are suitable for barber service work such as haircuts .
The operation of a wheelchair user tilts rearward is, there is carried out by help of assistants, utilizing the axis of the main wheel of the wheelchair as a rotation axis, the line dividing rapping by rearward inclination of the frame It consists of features.

  Furthermore, in addition to the above-mentioned requirements, the barber equipment for wheelchair according to claim 2 is characterized in that the part where the support member supports and holds the wheelchair is a handle of the wheelchair.

  Furthermore, in addition to the above requirements, the barber equipment for wheelchair according to claim 3 is characterized in that the support member has a portal shape.

  In addition to the above requirements, the barber equipment for wheelchair according to claim 4 is characterized in that a one-touch buckle is used to support and support a wheelchair handle.

  First, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a device for providing a barber service for a wheelchair user can have a simple configuration.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, by using the handle as the fixing portion, the operation can be performed more easily and reliably.

  According to the invention of claim 3, the support member can have a simple structure.

  Furthermore, according to the invention described in claim 4, the wheelchair can be reliably fixed to the support member by a one-touch operation with the one-touch buckle.

  The preferred embodiments of the present invention will be disclosed in the following description of specific embodiments and drawings.

Hereinafter, the barber equipment 1 for wheelchairs according to the present invention will be specifically described based on examples.
Reference numeral 1 denotes a barber facility according to the present invention, which can accept a user of a wheelchair 2 and provide a barber service. The main members of the barber facility 1 include a support member 11, a hair washing sink 12 that is a part of the barber equipment, a lift 13 and the like.
Prior to the description of the barber facility 1 of the present invention, an outline of the wheelchair 2 will be described.

Various wheelchairs 2 are provided for the wheelchair 2 in accordance with the physical ability of the user M of the wheelchair 2, and an outline of typical main members will be described. Reference numeral 20 denotes a frame formed by appropriately bending and combining pipes made of aluminum, steel, or the like. The frame 20 can be folded in the left-right direction by a subframe 20A serving as a folding guide in a pantograph shape.
The frame 20 includes a main wheel 21 and a caster-like auxiliary wheel 22 provided in front of the main wheel 21, and is configured to be able to move appropriately. Further, the frame 20 supports a step 23 for supporting the seated user M's foot and a seat 24 including a backrest for receiving the seated user M, and further, a backrest portion of the seat 24 is a part of the seat. A supporting handle 25 is configured as a part of the frame 20.
Further, the frame 20 has an armrest 26 on its side, and a lift step 27 is formed in a projecting position at a position extending rearward of the main wheel shaft 21A.
The lift step 27 is provided so that an assistant can conveniently operate the lifter wheel 22 to lift the seat wheeler 2 together with the frame 20 of the wheelchair 2 or to exceed the step. is there.
The configuration described above is a conventionally known general configuration, and can be applied even to a special purpose according to the physique of the user M as appropriate.

Next, the support member 11 which is one of the members constituting the barber facility 1 will be described in detail below.
The support member 11 is shaped to protrude upward from the floor surface of the barber room 10, and a lift 13 that can be moved up and down is installed in front of the base (opposite side of the hair washing sink 12). A slope 130 is provided at the rear portion of the lift 13 so that the wheelchair 2 can smoothly climb, and the slope 130 is provided so that it can be stored in a flipped state when not in use .

The support member 11 has, for example, a gate shape, has two upright stays 14 and includes a support portion 15 that is continuously and horizontally disposed above the stay 14. It consists of a metal pipe or the like.
Further, the support portion 15 is provided with a fixing member 16 for holding the handle 25 of the wheelchair 2. For example, the support member 15 uses a holding belt 161 and is fastened with a one-touch buckle 162. It is. Of course, as the fixing member 16, as will be described later, only the one-touch buckle 162 without the holding belt 161 as shown in FIG. 4 can be used.

Then, when the provision of the support member 11 to Barber 10, taking into account the actual workability, only in the use of this product is placed. Specifically, a stay insertion hole 140 is provided on the floor surface, a flange 142 is provided at a lower portion of the stay 14, and this lower portion is referred to as a stay insertion portion 141. Moreover, it is preferable that the stay insertion hole 140 is provided with a protective lid 143 so as to cover an opening for preventing foreign matter or the like from entering when the stay 14 is not installed.

The present invention has a configuration as described above, whereby the user M of the wheelchair 2 can receive a barber service in the following procedure.
As shown in FIG. 3A, the user M of the wheelchair 2 gets in, for example, a lift 13 or the like with the help of an assistant or the like in the barber room. As an example, when the lift 13 is provided with the slope 130, it can be easily boarded by using this.
In this embodiment, since the wheelchair 2 cannot be put on the lift 13 using the slope 130 when the support member 11 is installed, the support member 11 is not installed at this time.

Next, at the stage of receiving a hair washing service such as after haircutting, the support member 11 is placed behind the user M of the wheelchair 2 as shown in FIGS. The frame 20 is tilted backward about the main wheel shaft 21A while the main wheel 21 of the wheelchair 2 is fixed.
At this position, the handle 25 of the wheelchair 2 is leaned upward on the support portion 15 of the support member 11, and the support portion 15 and the handle 25 of the wheelchair 2 are fixed by the fixing member 16 or the like. is there.

That is, when the holding belt 161 is used as the fixing member 16, as shown in FIG. 4 (a), the support portion 15 and the handle 25 of the wheelchair 2 are tied together by this, and both ends of the holding belt 161 are attached. Fasten with one-touch buckle 162. Of course, the one-touch buckle 162 is preferable in that it can be operated quickly, but if it cannot be firmly bound, it is appropriately tightened with a length adjusting structure on the belt side.
As the one-touch buckle 162, a type in which the one-touch buckle 162 is directly incorporated into the support portion 15 of the support member 11 can be applied in addition to the type combined with the holding belt 161.

That is, in the one-touch buckle 162 of the type shown in FIG. 4B, the holding loop 164 is locked or released to the catch piece 165 by the prone lever 163, and the handle 25 of the wheelchair 2 is held and fixed by the holding loop 164. It is. Further, the one-touch buckle 162 shown in FIG. 4C is a saddle type using a slider 166 and is configured to always close a holding pocket 168 provided in the support portion 15 of the support member 11 by a spring 167. Yes. In order to make it possible to hold the handle 25 and the like with one touch, a guide surface 169 is formed in which the tip of the surface of the slider 166 not facing the holding pocket 168 is inclined. Accordingly, by lowering the handle 25 of the wheelchair 2 toward the holding pocket 168, the slider 166 retreats to open the opening of the holding pocket 168 by the action of the inclined guide surface 169 of the slider 166, and further, the handle 25 The slider 166 is returned to the original position by the force of the spring 167 in a state in which it is stored in the holding pocket 168, and the handle 25 can be prevented from coming off and fixed by a so-called one-touch action.
Further, although not shown, the one-touch buckle 162 may be provided on the wheelchair side such as the handle 25 of the wheelchair 2.

When the wheelchair 2 is tilted backward, the wheelchair 2 can be almost fixed if the posture shown in FIG. 2 is adopted, but the main wheel 21 is provided by a brake (not shown) attached to the wheelchair 2. If it is fixed so that it does not rotate, the safety during work is further improved.
When such a wheelchair 2 is tilted backward, for user M, the lower body is lifted upward while maintaining the normal sitting posture, and the upper body is tilted backward, and the head is a hairdressing device. It is possible to receive a service such as shampooing as it is close to the upper part of the sink 12 for use. After the barber service that is normally performed with the upper body tilted backward , the fixing member 16 is released and the wheelchair 2 is returned to the normal posture.

Other examples

  Although the present invention is based on the configuration as described above, other embodiments can also consider the shape of the support member 11 itself. In other words, the basic and preferred embodiment of the support member 11 is a gate-shaped pipe bent, but in short, it may be a member that supports and fixes a part of the wheelchair 2, for example, the handle 25. FIG. The form of only the stay 14 in which the support part 15 as shown in FIG. 5 is omitted (FIG. 5A), the form in which the two stays 14 are provided and the support part 15 is provided above each of them (FIG. 5B) A T-shaped form (FIG. 5C) or the like can be taken.

Moreover, although it is the reference structure which remove | deviated from the summary of this invention, when providing the lift 13, it is also possible to comprise integrally with the support member 11 as shown, for example in FIG. In such a case, it is also desirable to adopt a structure that takes into account convenience such as storage. Specifically, a pivot 110 is provided at the intersection of the lift 13 and the support member 11 to connect them, and a folding brace 111 is provided between them to allow the support member 11 to fall down to form a compact folding structure. It is something that can be done. Further, a lower caster 112 of the lift 13 that is integrally provided with the support member 11 is provided below the lift 13 and can be stored when the user M of the wheelchair 2 does not visit the store. Of course, in this case as well, it is preferable to provide a separate or foldable slope 130 in front of the lift 13 or the like.

It is a perspective view which shows the use condition of the barber equipment corresponding to the wheelchair user of this invention, and also shows sectional drawing. It is a side view same as the above. It is explanatory drawing which shows the use condition of the barber equipment for wheelchair users of this invention sequentially. It is a perspective view which shows the other Example of the support member in this invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows various embodiment regarding the fixing member in this invention. A reference forms relevant to the present invention the support member and the lift is a perspective view showing an embodiment of a combination together.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Barber equipment 10 Barber room 11 Support member 110 Pivot 111 Folding brace 112 Caster 12 Hair sink Sink 13 Lift 130 Slope 14 Stay 140 Steer insertion hole 141 Stay insertion part 142 Flange 143 Protective cover 15 Supporting part 16 Fixing member 161 Holding Belt 162 One-touch buckle 163 Slope lever 164 Holding loop 165 Catch piece 166 Slider 167 Spring 168 Holding pocket 169 Guide surface 2 Wheelchair 20 Frame 20A Subframe 21 Main wheel 21A Main wheel shaft 22 Secondary wheel 23 Step 24 Seat 25 Handle 26 Armrest 27 Lift Step M User

Claims (4)

In hairdressing equipment near the barber room, while the wheelchair user seated in the seat which is supported on the wheelchair frame, receive a haircut and in normal posture, the barber service of the head of hair or the like in the rearward tilting posture Barber equipment,
A support member that supports and holds the wheelchair tilted backward is provided in the vicinity of the barber equipment, and a lift that can be raised and lowered for placing the wheelchair is used in the vicinity of the support member and used for washing the hair. With a hair washing sink
A slope is provided at the rear part of the lift so that the wheelchair can be smoothly climbed, and when not in use, the slope can be stored in a raised state so as to stand up behind the main wheel of the wheelchair. The stay portion is provided with a vertically disposed stay portion and a support portion provided above the stay portion, and the stay portion is inserted into a stay insertion hole provided on the floor surface of the barber room, and is configured to be inclined backwards such as shampooing. when receiving a barber service performed by the support member is made not approach is allowed, whereas backward inclined so as to be located immediately below the both user's head said hair sink that is installed on a floor surface When receiving barber services such as haircuts, the support members are removed from the floor so that they are suitable for barber service work such as haircuts .
The operation of a wheelchair user tilts rearward is, there is carried out by help of assistants, characterized in that utilizing the axis of the main wheel of the wheelchair as a rotation axis, dividing lines by rearward inclination of the frame Barber equipment for wheelchairs.   2. The barber equipment for wheelchair according to claim 1, wherein the support member supports and holds the wheelchair by a handle of the wheelchair. The wheelchair-compatible barber equipment according to claim 1 or 2 , wherein the support member has a portal shape. To support holding the support member wheelchair handle, wheelchair of hairdressing equipment according to claim 1, 2, 3 or 4, wherein further comprising a one-touch buckle.

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