Fire escape – ladder – or scaffold – Unitary foldable – rigid scaffold or ladder – Collapsible ladder
Reexamination Certificate
2006-09-12
2006-09-12
Thompson II, Hugh B. (Department: 3634)
Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
Unitary foldable, rigid scaffold or ladder
Collapsible ladder
C182S115000, C248S238000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07104361
ABSTRACT:
A platform ladder comprising two elongate ladder sections having feet at one end and an upper end, the upper end of each section being hinged to an upper rail, a platform pivotally secured to one ladder section below the upper end and adapted to interconnect with the other ladder section, and stays interconnecting each side of the ladder sections whereby when the ladder is in an operative position with the ladder sections assuming an erect A shaped profile with the platform extending between the ladder sections to define a standing platform, the ladder sections, upper rail and stays, define a four bar linkage.
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Branach Technology PTY Ltd.
Hunt, Jr. Ross F.
Stites & Harbison PLLC
Thompson II Hugh B.
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