Wheelchair with a six-wheel frame

The invention relates to a wheelchair chassis of the type having a central, transverse main shaft (1) with two drive wheels (5, 6), driven by separate motors, and a front as well as a rear wheel pair, each consisting of two wheels carried by individual supporting arms (9, 15) which are swingable in a vertical plane. The invention solves the problem of how to maintain a constant wheel pressure and an unchanged lateral stability when the wheelchair passes over obstacles tending to tilt it sidewise. According to the invention each of the supporting arms (15) of the front wheels is individually swingable around an axis (16) adjacent to the main shaft and arranged, in response to an upwardly directed movement of its free end, triggered by its wheel passing an underlying bump, via a linkage (17, 18, 19, 11) to convert this movement to the other front supporting arm which is thereby caused to move downwards in order to maintain a constant wheel pressure.