Mountable elevator
OwnerCharlie Homer Thompsoninventor
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Abstract
A mountable elevator system includes one or more horizontal bearing frames and one or more vertical frames, each vertical frame being connected to one of the horizontal bearing frames. One or more step stringers extend between the one or more horizontal bearing frames and the one or more vertical frames. A multi-piece platform includes multiple step pieces mounted on the one or more step stringers. The cabling is configured to extend and retract the multi-piece platform. One or more step support locking structures can be configured to secure a top step piece of the multi-piece platform, wherein the multiple step pieces of the multi-piece platform separate into multiple vertical levels as the multi-piece platform extends. The multi-piece platform is configured to raise and lower relative to an entry door of a vehicle.
Claims18
An elevator system mountable to a vehicle, the elevator system comprising:
- one or more horizontal bearing frames;
- one or more vertical frames, each vertical frame being connected to one of the one or more horizontal bearing frames;
- one or more step stringers extending between the one or more horizontal bearing frames and the one or more vertical frames;
- a multi-piece platform including multiple step pieces mounted on the one or more step stringers;
- cabling connected to the elevator system;
- an actuator connected to the cabling and configured to raise and lower the multi-piece platform using the cabling;
- one or more step support arms attached to the multi-piece platform;
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- one or more actuators coupled to extend the one or more step support arms, wherein the one or more step support arms are configured to deploy the multiple step pieces of the multi-piece platform as multiple descending steps as the multi-piece platform is lowered in a step mode.
An elevator system comprising:
- one or more vertical frames, each vertical frame movably mountable to an exterior of a vehicle at an entry door to the vehicle;
- one or more horizontal bearing frames, each horizontal bearing frame being connected to one of the one or more vertical frames;
- a multi-piece platform rotatably attached to the one or more horizontal bearing frames, the multi-piece platform including multiple step pieces, wherein the multi-piece platform is configured to raise and lower relative to the entry door of the vehicle and the multiple step pieces of the multi-piece platform are configured to deploy as a flat elevator platform as the multi-piece platform is lowered in an elevator mode and as multiple descending steps as the multi-piece platform is lowered in a step mode;
- one or more step support arms attached to the multi-piece platform;
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- one or more actuators coupled to extend the one or more step support arms, wherein the one or more step support arms are configured to deploy the multiple step pieces of the multi-piece platform as multiple descending steps as the multi-piece platform is lowered in the step mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.