Fire escape – ladder – or scaffold – Horizontal traversing - actuation – control – or response – Occupant actuation or control
Patent
1986-05-08
1987-03-03
Machado, Reinaldo P.
Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
Horizontal traversing - actuation, control, or response
Occupant actuation or control
182167, E06C 500
Patent
active
046468765
ABSTRACT:
A walking ladder is provided and consists of a spring loaded tripod suspended from a step ladder which converts the step ladder into a self moving support. A person standing on the step ladder can shift their weight from the ladder to the tripod and then back onto the ladder while always remaining on the ladder so as to reposition the ladder anywhere in the immediate area of the tripod.
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Machado Reinaldo P.
Miller Richard L.
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