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US 4,066,227 AGranted
Mezzanine structure for wide-bodied passenger aircraft
OwnerChristian K. E. Buchselinventor
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An elevated deck structure is positionable on the main deck floor in the passenger compartment of a wide-bodied aircraft for providing a mezzanine seating area in the substantially unused upper lobe of the fuselage. A sectioned elongated support wall has a lower portion which is detachably secured to a pair of conventional seat tracks extending longitudinally along the center line of the main deck floor. A plurality of mezzanine floor sections are secured to the top of the support wall and project laterally outward toward the sidewall of the aircraft fuselage. The mezzanine floor is elevated a sufficient distance above the main deck floor to provide passenger seating both in the area under the mezzanine floor on either side of the support wall and on the mezzanine floor itself in the upper lobe of the aircraft. The elevated deck structure is more narrow than the passenger compartment is wide at the mezzanine level so as to leave sufficient clearance for visual access by the mezzanine passengers of the main deck area and windows in the fuselage sidewall. In addition, its lateral extension is limited so as to not restrict overhead clearance on the main deck aisles. At least one stairway is provided at an end of the structure for passenger ingress and egress between the main deck and the mezzanine area. Both the support wall sections and the floor sections are sized to be received through a conventional aircraft passenger door so that the extra seating capacity can be added or removed to meet changing requirements.
An elevated deck structure movable into a fuselage compartment of an aircraft, said fuselage compartment including a main deck floor and sidewalls with windows, for providing a mezzanine within such fuselage compartment, said elevated deck structure comprising:
An elevated deck structure movable into a passenger compartment of an aircraft, said passenger compartment including a main deck floor and side walls with windows, for providing a mezzanine within such passenger compartment, said elevated deck structure comprising:
An elevated deck structure movable into a passenger compartment of an aircraft, said passenger compartment including a main deck floor and side walls with windows, for providing a mezzanine within such passenger compartment, said elevated deck structure comprising:
An elevated deck structure movable into a passenger compartment of an aircraft, said passenger compartment including a main deck floor and side walls with windows, for providing a mezzanine within such passenger compartment, said elevated deck structure comprising:
An elevated deck structure movable into a passenger compartment of an aircraft, said passenger compartment including a main deck floor and side walls with windows, for providing a mezzanine within such passenger compartment, said elevated deck structure comprising:
In a wide-bodied aircraft for carrying passengers including a passenger compartment extending longitudinally within the fuselage of the aircraft, said passenger compartment further including a main deck defining a floor for said passenger compartment, said main deck extending laterally to the interior sidewall of said passenger compartment, a plurality of longitudinally spaced windows in said fuselage adjacent said passenger compartment and wherein said main deck floor further includes a plurality of laterally extending rows of spaced seating spaced longitudinally on the main deck floor of the passenger compartment, and wherein said main deck further includes at least one pair of laterally spaced seat tracks secured along the center line of said main deck for receiving seating therein, the improvement comprising an elevated deck structure for converting the substantially unused space in the upper lobe of the fuselage for passenger seating, comprising:
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