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US 6,543,076 B1Granted
Cabin for a telescopic gangway
AssigneeThyssen Henschel Airport Systems GmbH
InventorsFriedhelm Worpenberg, Lothar Scharf
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Abstract
A telescopic gangway cabin has a canopy roof and a floor extending over the entire width of the canopy roof The gangway cabin can be used for docking to conventional commercial aircraft as well as to commuter aircraft. The undivided floor has a railing in the area of a lateral border of the floor and is displaceable together with the railing at right angles to the opening of the canopy roof under the side wall of the canopy roof.
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A telescopic gangway cabin, comprising:
- a canopy roof with an opening, the opening extending from one side wall to another side wall;
- an undivided floor extending in a closed position over the entire width of the canopy roof and with an upper surface uninterrupted from said one side wall to said another side wall;
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- an undivided floor railing connected to said undivided floor in an area of a lateral edge of said undivided floor adjacent to said one side wall in said closed position, said undivided floor railing together with said undivided floor being displaceable at right angles to a vertical portion of said one side wall and said another side wall and displaceable relative to said one side wall and relative to said another sidewall as said railing together with said undivided floor move from said closed position into a retracted position.
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A telescopic gangway cabin, comprising:
- a gangway floor having a front edge;
- a canopy roof with an opening the opening extending from one side wall to another side wall, said canopy roof being connected to said gangway floor;
- an undivided floor extending in a closed position over the entire width of the canopy roof and having an uninterrupted upper surface extending substantially from said one side wall to said another side wall;
- an undivided vertically standing railing connected to said undivided floor in an area of a lateral edge of said undivided floor adjacent to said one side wall in said closed position, said undivided floor railing being laterally displaceable relative to the canopy roof together with said undivided floor from said closed position to a retracted position with the movement being substantially in parallel to said front edge of said gangway floor;
- two running rails extending at an underside of said floor, extending in parallel to said front edge of said gangway floor;
- gangway structure spars connected to said gangway floor,
- support rollers engaging said running rails and mounted on said spars of said gangway structure.
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A telescopic gangway cabin, comprising:
- a gangway floor having a front edge;
- a canopy roof with an opening, the opening extending from one side wall to another side wall, said canopy roof being connected to said gangway floor;
- an undivided floor extending in a closed position over the entire width of the canopy roof and having an uninterrupted upper surface extending substantially from said one side wall to said another side wall;
- an undivided vertically standing floor railing connected to said undivided floor in an area of a lateral edge of said undivided floor adjacent to said one side wall in said closed position, said undivided floor railing being displaceable together with said undivided floor from said closed position to a retracted position with the direction of movement being substantially at a right angle to said one side wall and said another side wall and movable laterally with respect to said one side wall and said another side wall;
- a continuous contact threshold bumper extending uninterrupted along a free front side of said undivided floor substantially from said one side wall to said another side wall, said continuous contact threshold bumper having an upper surface cooperating with said uninterrupted upper surface of said undivided floor to provide a combined uninterrupted surface extending substantially from one side wall to said another side wall.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.