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US 8,943,995 B2Granted
Dropdown railing for watercraft
OwnerPeter A. Mullerinventor
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Abstract
The invention comprises of a railing (1) which is foldable or and height adjustable or and extendable lengthwise and has rungs (5) or pivotable safety footsteps (14a) which, if necessary, can be kept in the vertical position (V) or horizontal position (Q) or and when tilting down the railing (1) remain in a stable position. The railing (1) has technical mean (4a,40,43a,45a,51) as well as an emergency mean (10,11) and can if necessary take up a tender (42) and other objects and the footsteps (14) can be transparent for example to improve visibility to the rear.
Claims10
A railing that is capable of being attached to a watercraft, the railing comprising:
- a frame;
- a swivel mechanism that is configured to rotate the frame from an upright vertical position to a stair position, which is a position between a horizontal position and a downward vertical position that is opposite to the upright vertical position;
- and
- a plurality of steps attached to the frame, wherein the plurality of steps can rotate independently to a rotation of the frame.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.