Aircraft cabin construction
AssigneeFuselage Engineering Services Ltd.
InventorDavid Luria
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Abstract
An aircraft cabin construction includes a cart-storage compartment in the space between the ceiling of the passenger compartment and the upper fuselage wall for storing food-serving wheeled carts; and an elevator having a platform and a drive for lowering the carts from the cart-storage compartment to the deck of the passenger compartment, and for raising the carts from the deck to the cart-storage compartment.
Claims12
An aircraft cabin construction comprising an outer fuselage wall enclosing a main passenger compartment extending longitudinally of the aircraft for a major portion of the length of the aircraft and including a ceiling spaced below the outer fuselage wall, a deck below said ceiling, and a plurality of passenger seats fixed to said deck under said ceiling;
- characterized in that said cabin construction further includes:
- a storage compartment extending centrally through the space between said outer fuselage wall and said ceiling for a substantial part of the length of the main passenger compartment for storing article holders;
- and a plurality of elevators at longitudinally-spaced locations along the length of said storage compartment, each of said elevators having a platform and a drive for lowering the article holders from said storage compartment to said deck, and for raising the article holders from said deck to said storage compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.