Step stool
AssigneeCosco Management, Inc.
InventorsWilliam R. Gibson, Enrique Giner
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Abstract
A method for assembling a step stool includes the step of providing a frame including a front leg and a rear leg coupled to the front leg for pivotable movement between an opened use position and a collapsed storage position, a step coupled to the front leg for pivotable movement between a horizontal use position and a storage position, and a link including a body, a pivot coupled to the body and the step, and a connector coupled to the body. The method further includes the step of snapping the connector into engagement with the rear leg for movement of the rear leg from its opened use position to its closed storage position in response to movement of the step from its horizontal use position to its storage position.
Claims31
A method of assembling a step stool, the method comprising the steps of
- providing a frame including a front leg and a rear leg coupled to the front leg for pivotable movement between an opened use position and a collapsed storage position, a step coupled to the front leg for pivotable movement between a horizontal use position and a storage position, and a link including a body, a pivot coupled to the body and the step, and a connector formed to include a channel coupled to the body, and
- snapping the connector into engagement with the rear leg enabling movement of the rear leg from its opened use position to its closed storage position in response to movement of the step from its horizontal use position to its storage position and retaining the strut in the channel during movement of the rear leg from its opened use position to its closed storage position in response to movement of the step from its horizontal use position to its storage position.
A step stool comprising
- a frame including a front leg and a rear leg coupled to the front leg for pivotable movement between an opened use position and a collapsed storage position, the rear leg including a strut,
- a step coupled to the front leg for pivotable movement between a horizontal use position and a storage position, and
- a link including a body, a pivot that is coupled to the body and the step and defines a pivot axis, and means for coupling the body to the strut in a channel upon pivoting the body about the pivot axis in a plane perpendicular to the strut retaining the strut in the channel during movement of the rear leg from its opened use position to its closed storage position in response to movement of the step from its horizontal use position to its storage position.
A step stool comprising
- a frame including a front leg and a rear leg coupled to the front leg for pivotable movement between an opened use position and a collapsed storage position, the rear leg including a strut,
- a step coupled to the front leg for pivotable movement between a horizontal use position and a storage position, and
- a link including a body, a pivot coupled to the body, and a connector coupled to the body, the connector including a hook coupled to the body and formed to include a channel sized to receive the strut and a detent coupled to the hook retaining the strut in the channel upon snapping the connector into engagement with the strut retaining the strut in the channel during movement of the rear leg from its opened use position to its closed storage position in response to movement of the step from its horizontal use position to its storage position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.