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US 5,707,067 AGranted
Convertible work creeper, seat and platform
OwnerCraig S. Smithinventor
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Abstract
A creeper cum work seat has two end platforms (1, 5) in sliding attachment to slide rods (4, 35, 36) in slideways (3, 6) with which the two end platforms can be slid apart to opposite ends of a central platform (7) to form a full-length creeper in creeper mode (11). The central platform becomes a work seat and the two end portions become a shelf platform under the work seat when the two end platforms are slid edge-to-edge in a seat mode(10). Seat-support members (12, 13) are attached pivotally to the central platform and to the two end platforms to support the central platform as a seat in a seat mode and to position the central portion between the two end platforms in a creeper mode.
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A convertible work creeper, seat and platform comprising:
- a first-end platform and a second-end platform having slide means positioned on at least one common slide member that is parallel to top surfaces of the first-end platform and the second-end platform and has a slide-member length to allow horizontal travel of the first-end platform and the second-end platform between design positions of separation and juxtaposed edge-to-edge positioning of the first-end platform and the second-end platform;
- a central platform that is positional between the first-end platform and the second-end platform with the first-end platform and the second-end platform positioned at design extremities of separation on the at-least-one common slide member, such that the first-end platform, the central platform and the second-end platform juxtaposed edge-to-edge are a creeper platform in a creeper mode of the creeper cum seat;
- first-end legs of the central platform having top ends of the first-end legs hinged to a first side of the central platform and having bottom ends of the first-end legs hinged to an outside end of the first-end platform;
- second-end legs of the central platform having top ends of the second-end legs hinged to a second side of the central platform and having bottom ends of the second-end legs hinged to an outside end of the second-end platform, such that the central platform is positional vertically above the first-end platform and the second-end platform juxtaposed edge-to-edge as a shelf platform with the first-end platform and the second-end platform slid to a seat mode of the creeper cum seat;
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- mobile means on bottoms of outside ends of the first-end platform and the second-end platform.
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A convertible work creeper, seat and platform comprising:
- a first-end platform having a support surface on a top portion and at least one first-end slideway vertically below the support surface on the first-end platform;
- a second-end platform having a support surface on a top portion and at least one second-end slideway vertically below the support surface on the second-end platform;
- at least one slide member having a first-end portion and a second-end portion of the at-least-one slide member;
- the first-end portion of the at-least-one slide member being positioned in the first-end slideway of the first-end platform;
- the second-end portion of the at-least-one slide member being positioned in the second-end slideway of the second-end platform;
- a central platform having a support surface, a first end and a second end of the central platform;
- at least one first seat-support member having a seat end and a creeper end of the at-least-one first seat-support member;
- at least one second seat-support member having a seat end and a creeper end of the at-least-one second seat-support member;
- the seat end of the at-least-one first seat-support member being hinged to the first end of central platform;
- the seat end of the at-least-one second seat-support member being hinged to the second end of central platform;
- the creeper end of the at-least-one first seat-support member being hinged to an outside end of the first-end platform;
- the creeper end of the at-least-one second seat-support member being hinged to an outside end of the second-end platform;
- the at-least-one slide member being sized and shaped to slide with design snugness in the at-least-one first-end slideway and in the at-least-one second slideway;
- the at-least-one slide member having a length to accommodate a distance of sliding separation of the first-end platform and the second-end platform for positioning the central platform designedly between the first-end platform and the second-end platform horizontally with the first-end platform, the central platform and the second-end platform juxtaposed side-by-side as a body-support platform in a creeper mode;
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- the at-least-one first seat-support member having a design length and the at-least-one second seat-support member having design lengths to support the central platform as a seat in a horizontal attitude vertically above the first-end platform and the second-end platform with the first-end platform and the second-end platform juxtaposed edge-to-edge as a shelf platform vertically below the central platform as a seat in a seat mode of the creeper cum seat.
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