Railway rolling stock – Steps – Folding
Patent
1982-11-08
1986-04-22
Reeves, Robert B.
Railway rolling stock
Steps
Folding
105443, 182 77, 414545, 414921, B61D 2302
Patent
active
045834660
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for railway cars to handle the ingress and egress of passengers through a door opening where the apparatus selectively provides at the exterior of the car at the door opening an adjustable height platform, steps or a ground-to-car floor platform lift. The apparatus is storable within the railway car and extendable exteriorly of the railway car where it can then be selectively conditioned for a desired passenger handling mode as a platform positioned at a desired height between the car floor and ground, a series of steps extending between the car floor and ground, or a platform lift movable between ground level and car floor level.
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Filoni Toussaint
Fletcher Kenneth S.
Reddy Redreddy S.
Shaanan Gad J.
Walsh Anthony J.
Hajec Donald T.
Lidd Francis J.
Reeves Robert B.
Vapor Corporation
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