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US 6,401,861 B1Granted
Adjustable floating ladder for loading a dumpster
AssigneeGreat Lakes Construction Services
InventorStephen James Marszalek
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Abstract
A free-floating step ladder which can hang on the rim of a trash dumpster has a stepless hook portion for hanging the ladder on the dumpster, a platform to stand on while loading the dumpster, and a stairway from the platform which extends adjustably toward the ground on which the dumpster rests without touching the ground.
Claims3
A portable ladder to aid a person in loading dumpsters of different heights which are on a dumpster supporting site which may be unstable, the ladder comprising:
- a hook portion having a plurality of vertically spaced apertures adapted for connecting the ladder to a dumpster of predetermined height and shape;
- a platform for the person;
- a pin releasably locking the hook portion and the platform portion in one of said plurality of vertically spaced apertures to vertically adjust the platform portion with respect to the hook portion at a desired height sufficient to enable the person when on the platform portion to see how the dumpster is being loaded;
- a ladder portion depending from the platform portion, and comprising an upper ladder section fixed to the platform portion at an obtuse angle with respect to the platform portion to extend outwardly from the dumpster, and a lower foldable ladder section pivotally attached to the upper ladder section so that the fixed section and the foldable section can lay side by side;
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- a support portion for the ladder portion suspended from the hook portion and positionable at an angle sufficient with respect to the dumpster supporting site for spacing the ladder portion above the dumpster supporting site.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.