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A person transport wheelchair has a frame assembly with tubular members attached to connectors supporting a seat, a back rest, and a foot rest. A pair of wheels rotatably mounted on an axle secured to the frame assembly movably support the wheelchair on a surface. The connectors have joined parallel

A person transport wheelchair has a frame assembly with tubular members attached to connectors supporting a seat, a back rest, and a foot rest. A pair of wheels rotatably mounted on an axle secured to the frame assembly movably support the wheelchair on a surface. The connectors have joined parallel tubes and a flange on one tube. The tubular members have ends telescoped into the tubes. The flanges support the seat, back rest and foot rest.

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1. A person transport wheelchair comprising: a frame assembly having members, connectors attached to the members, and releasable fasteners securing the members to the connectors, said connectors including a pair of seat connectors, a pair of back rest connectors, and a pair of foot rest connectors,

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A person transport wheelchair comprising: a frame assembly having members, connectors attached to the members, and releasable fasteners securing the members to the connectors, said connectors including a pair of seat connectors, a pair of back rest connectors, and a pair of foot rest connectors, each of the connectors including a pair of tubes joined together, each tube having a passage, said members being tubular members having ends, each end being telescoped into the passage of one tube, said releasable fasterners attaching the ends of the tubular members to the tubes, a seat mounted on the seat connectors, first fasteners securing the seat to the seat connectors, a back rest mounted on the back rest connectors, second fasteners securing the back rest to the back rest connectors, a foot rest mounted on the foot rest connectors, third fasteners securing the foot rest to the foot rest connectors, wheels mounted on the frame assembly for movably supporting the wheelchair on a surface, and an axle secured to the frame assembly rotatably supporting the wheels.2. The person transport wheelchair of claim 1 including: a flange secured to a tube of each connector.3. The person transport wheelchair of claim 1 wherein: said seat connectors include flanges joined to tubes supporting the seat, said first fasteners securing the seat to said flanges.4. The person transport wheelchair of claim 1 wherein: said back rest connectors include flanges joined to tubes, said back rest being mounted on the flanges, said second fasteners attaching the back rest to the flanges.5. The person transport wheelchair of claim 1 including: a U-shaped member located transversely in front of the seat, and means attaching the U-shaped member to the seat connectors.6. The person transport wheelchair of claim 1 including: a first handle and a second handle, each handle having ends attached to the back rest connectors.7. The person transport wheelchair of claim 1 including: a handle attached to the back rest connectors.8. The person transport wheelchair of claim 7 wherein: said handle is a U-shaped member extended rearwardly from the back rest.9. The person transport wheelchair of claim 1 wherein: the members include generally horizontal base members, upright front arms connected to the seat connectors, upright rear arms joined to the base members and connected to the back rest connectors, a pair of elbow members connected to the seat connectors and back rest connectors, at least one handle located adjacent said back rest, and fasteners attaching said handle to the back rest connectors.10. The person transport wheelchair of claim 9 wherein: each of the seat connectors have flanges joined to a tube supporting said seat, said first fasteners securing said seat to said flanges.11. The person transport wheelchair of claim 9 including: an axle mounted on the upright rear arms for rotatably supporting the wheel means, said wheel means being located adjacent inside portions of said upright rear arms.12. A person transport wheelchair comprising: a frame assembly having members, connectors attached to the members, and releasable fasteners securing the members to the connectors, said connectors including a pair of seat connectors, a pair of back rest connectors, and a pair of foot rest connectors, each of the connector including a pair of tubes joined together each tube having a passage, said members being tubular members having ends, each end being telescoped into the passage of one tube, said releasable fasteners attaching the ends of the tubular members to the tubes, a seat mounted on the seat connectors, first fasteners securing the seat to the seat connectors, a back rest mounted on the back rest connectors, second fasteners securing the back rest to the back rest connectors, a foot rest mounted on the foot rest connectors, third fasteners securing the foot rest to the foot rest connectors, wheels mounted on the frame assembly for movably supporting the wheelchair on a surface, and an axle secured to the frame assembly rotatably supporting the wheels.13. The person transport wheelchair of claim 12 including: a flange secured to a tube of each connector.14. The person transport wheelchair of claim 12 wherein: said seat connectors include flanges joined to tubes supporting the seat, said first fasteners securing the seat to said flanges.15. The person transport wheelchair of claim 12 wherein: said back rest connectors include flanges joined to tubes, said back rest being mounted on the flanges, said second fasteners attaching the back rest to the flanges.16. The person transport wheelchair of claim 12 wherein: said foot rest connectors include flanges joined to tubes, said third fasteners securing the foot rest to the flanges.17. The person transport wheelchair of claim 12 including: a U-shaped member located transversely in front of the seat, and means attaching the U-shaped member to the seat connectors.18. The person transport wheelchair of claim 12 including: a first handle and a second handle, each handle having ends attached to the back rest connectors.19. The person transport wheelchair of claim 12 including: a transverse bumper located in front of the foot rest, and means attaching the bumper to the foot rest connectors.20. The person transport wheelchair of claim 12 including: a handle attached to the back rest connectors.21. The person transport wheelchair of claim 20 wherein: said handle is a U-shaped member extended rearwardly from the back rest.22. The person transport wheelchair of claim 12 wherein: the members include generally horizontal base members connected to the foot rest connectors, upright front arms connected to the foot rest connectors and seat connectors, upright rear arms joined to the base members and connected to the back rest connectors, a pair of elbow members connected to the seat connectors and back rest connectors, at least one handle located adjacent said back rest, and fasteners attaching said handle to the back rest connectors.23. The person transport wheelchair of claim 22 wherein: each of the front arms have a Z-shape with horizontal lower ends connected to a foot rest connector and horizontal upper ends connected to a seat connector.24. The person transport wheelchair of claim 22 wherein: each of the seat connectors have flanges joined to a tube supporting said seat, said first fasteners securing said seat to said flanges.25. The person transport wheelchair of claim 22 wherein: said axle is mounted on the upright rear arms, said wheels being located adjacent inside portions of said upright rear arms.26. The person transport wheelchair of claim 22 including: a transverse bumper located in front of the foot rest, and means attaching said bumper to said foot rest connectors.