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Child Lift Wheelchair

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Child Lift Wheelchair

Name:Personal
Henshaw, Justin Role :Text(marcrelator)
creator

Name:Personal
Price, Matthew Role :Text(marcrelator)
creator

Name:Personal
Mock, Earle Role :Text(marcrelator)
creator

Name:Personal
Department of Mechanical Engineering; Dr. David Walrath Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Laramie, Wyoming
University of Wyoming (keyDate="yes")
2008-04-23

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eng

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Tyler, a 13 year old who has been disabled by shaken baby syndrome, has gone through life in the care of foster parents. He has the motor skills equivalent to that of a 3 month old child; in addition he is blind and deaf without verbal communication abilities. After hearing this story JEM Engineering founded by Justin Henshaw, Earle Mock, and Matthew Price, students in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Wyoming, agreed to help his current foster parents by designing and manufacturing a wheelchair designed to his specific needs. Design specifications, a chair that would lift Tyler from nearly ground level to a height of at least 32 inches, recline, include safety straps, be relatively light in weight, durable, and maintain most of the characteristic of a wheelchair as prescribed by the Americans with Disabilities Act, were developed in consultation with Tyler’s foster mother. The wheelchair will primarily be used in the home and school with limited outdoor exposure. This wheelchair has redesigned a standard wheelchair with a scissor lift driven by a worm gearbox and hand crank. The fabrication of the Child Lift Wheelchair was completed in the College of Engineering Machine Shop. note
From - Undergraduate Research Day 2008 - Celebration of Research - Abstracts
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Wheelchairs--Design and construction

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Undergrauate Research Day 2008

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