ELEVATABLE COLLAPSABLE FOOTREST DEVICE AND WHEELCHAIR USING THE SAME

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a wheelchair in which footrests are rotated and collapsed and the footrests does not hinder a passenger from getting down from the wheelchair and moving when lowering the footrests below a height where feet are placed.SOLUTION: In the footrest device, footrest plates for placing the feet are freely rotatably arranged back and forth by a rotary bonding parts between a pair of right and left frames for attaching the footrests, the footrest plates rotate backward, parts protruding forward are disappeared when the footrest plates are lowered below the height of the feet, the footrest plates reversely rotate and go out forward and the feet can be placed on the same when the footrest plates are returned to the original height.