Aeronautics and astronautics – Aircraft structure – Passenger or cargo loading or discharging
Patent
1983-08-16
1985-11-19
Barefoot, Galen L.
Aeronautics and astronautics
Aircraft structure
Passenger or cargo loading or discharging
14 715, B64D 900
Patent
active
045537208
ABSTRACT:
A connecting mechanism for an airplane passenger bridge. The cabin of the passenger bridge can be connected with an aircraft, and can be placed against the aircraft by means of a circumferential seal which extends completely around the door of the aircraft. The cabin has a bottom which can be tilted about an essentially horizontal axis. The bottom of the cabin includes two different sections. The outer section faces the aircraft, can be horizontally positioned, and is embodied as an inclinable floor having a pivot axis disposed in the direction in which passengers walk. The inner section is rigidly embodied. Those ends of each of the two bottom sections which face one another are respectively provided with a triangular transition ramp which can be folded over, into or counter to the direction in which the passengers walk, about an axis which is parallel to the pertaining walking surface. The transition ramps are arranged next to one another, and in the position of use their undersides can be supported, in the region of their hypotenuses which are directed toward the middle of the passageway, on the respectively opposing bottom section.
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Barefoot Galen L.
Bednar Paul J.
Thyssen Industrie Aktiengesellschaft
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