In the third year of the Kentaur Programme at the Moholy-Nagy Design Scholarship Competition, I made the prototype of the Flexor active wheelchair.

Flexor Active Wheelchair. Designed by Csaba Szilágyi G. 

The aim was to produce a frame structure that is up to the demands and is easy to manufacture in Hungary.This wheelchair is made for an everyday use, in a more active life.

Its novelty is that the frame structure made of bent tubes incorporates the axle, thus the entire frame is a closed system.
The footrest is telescopically joined to the frame.
The large wheel’s axle clamps enable the centre of gravity to be adjusted.

The supports for the small wheels are fixed onto welded plates with bolt joints. The back of the chair is made of a single tube and is connected to the frame by two welded plates.

Velcro allows the tension of the back and the seat to be altered as required. The angle of the back can also be changed.


 Flexor Active Wheelchair

The Flexor active wheelchair prototype

Structure parts, materials and qualities:

• Frame: steel tube, ø 25mm
• Axle junction: aluminium
• Seat depth: 34-50 cm
• Seat width: 35-45 cm
• Backrest height: 25-45 cm
• Backrest angle: ± 10 °
• Rear wheels: 24˝
• Camber angle: 3 °, depend with adapter
• Footrest: height adjustable
• Paint: Acrylic base
• Weight: 9,5 kg
• Sponsored by: The Roman Catholic Church’s Charity
• Service,
• Pap Bike Workshop,
• Start Junior Metal Furniture Company

Accessories:

• Push handles, side guards, brakes
• The collapsibility of the chair:
• The back folds forward and the large
• wheels can be taken off.
• The smaller collapsible variation of the
• chair can only be seen on the drawing.
• Used fittings:
• Six-Star rear wheels, Petri-Lehr
• Joy fork and castor-wheel ø 80 mm,
• Meyra