Mobile aircraft secondary barrier cart
OwnerRobert James MacLeaninventor
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Abstract
A Mobile Aircraft Secondary Barrier Cart which includes a main housing, with at least two retractable and expandable rigid barriers or a soft non-porous curtain that rise up from the main housing and encompass the entire forward galley/main cabin entrance and locks into place. The rigid barriers, when present, generally wedge into a female channel surrounding forward galley/main cabin entrance to hold the rigid barriers in placed. The purpose of the Mobile Aircraft Secondary Barrier Cart and the included curtain is to prevent unauthorized individuals from entering the Flightdeck when it is unlocked during flight.
Claims19
A Mobile Aircraft Secondary Barrier Cart comprising:
- a main housing being in the form of a mobile barrier cart;
- at least two retractable cables attached to said main housing and configured to attach to at least two points on an aircraft;
- at least one ratcheting system configured to hold said main housing in place;
- a curtain barrier designed to increase a height of said main housing when said curtain barrier is deployed;
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- at least two tracks configured to be installed on bulkheads of an aircraft cabin of said aircraft wherein edges of said curtain barrier are inserted into said tracks to hold said curtain barrier in place.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.