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Rear Folding Mount
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- The DAESSY Rear Folding Mount (DRFM6) also allows a device to be precisely positioned for use but with this Mount the device is folded away behind the backrest of the wheelchair when not needed.
- Unlike the other DAESSY Mounts the Rear Folding Mount is permanently attached part way down the side of the wheelchair and cannot be lifted out of its attachment clamp.
- Two flexible joints, one located at the attachment to the wheelchair the other between the two tubes permit a three step Rearward Folding action.
- In use the joint between the tubes forms a right angle with one tube horizontal across the wheelchair and the other tube leaning forward from the attachment point.
- The first step in the Folding motion swings the horizontal tube, with the device attached or removed, forward away from the user until the two tubes form a straight line.
- Both tubes then swing to the Rear at the flexible attachment point and finally the horizontal tube is swung in behind the backrest of the wheelchair.
- The DAESSY Rear Folding Mount ? DRFM6 allows a mounted device to be folded away and stored behind the backrest of the wheelchair.
- Storage in this location does not increase the footprint of the wheelchair, and reduces the chance that the mounted device will be bumped into walls and doors.
- This mount consists of two stainless steel tubes, a Side Tube and a Horizontal Tube, connected by an Elbow Rotate Head with Rotate Head Tube Mount which allows the Horizontal Tube to form a right angle with the Side Tube or rotate to a extended straight out position.
- A Frame Clamp Assembly consisting of a Frame Clamp Inner Piece, optional Offset Links and a Rear Folding Adapter and Rotate Head Tube Mount (RFA+RTHTM) permanently attaches the tube structure to the side of the wheelchair.
- The lower end of the Side Tube is clamped into the RFA+RTHTM and rises at an angle of about 45? forward with the Horizontal Tube passing across in front of the user.
- The Offset Links allow the Rear Folding Adapter to be positioned approximately halfway down the side of the wheelchair and a few inches below the seat level regardless of the location of attachment of the Frame Clamp Inner Piece on the frame of the wheelchair.
- The mounted device is held in an adapter or bolted to a plate that allows the device to be quickly attached or detached from a Quick Release Base.
There are three steps to the rear folding motion:
- In the first movement the Horizontal Tube is rotated through 90? at the Elbow Rotate Head to an extended position in line with the Side Tube.
- Next, the complete tube structure is rotated at the Rear Folding Adapter back through a 90? angle.
- Finally, the Horizontal Tube is folded in behind the wheelchair in a motion that reverses the first rotation at the Elbow Rotate Head. Reversing the order of these steps returns the device to its In-use position.
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