Land vehicles – Wheeled – Attachment
Patent
1986-01-17
1987-04-21
Bertsch, Richard A.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Attachment
296 1R, B60R 2110
Patent
active
046591052
ABSTRACT:
A protective device for firefighters is disclosed, in the form of a bar that extends across the entrance of the jump seat compartment of a fire truck. Disclosed is an elongated tube connected by a universal joint to a support bracket. The tube has a slide that is spring urged outwardly into the socket of a companion bracket, thus providing a rigid safety bar strategically positioned to protect a firefighter when the fire apparatus is being driven at high speed over roughly paved streets and around sharp corners. A specially designed locking and release handle is normally biased to a locking position at the enlarged end of a guide slot. To be moved to a release position, the handle must be grasped and partially rotated with the slide, to align the handle with an elongated portion of the slot, whereby to permit the slide to be retracted and in this way permit the bar to be swung downwardly so that the firefighter may descend from the apparatus in minimum time.
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