Fire escape – ladder – or scaffold – Wall- or floor-attached – Ladder
Patent
1991-11-07
1992-06-02
Machado, Reinaldo P.
Fire escape, ladder, or scaffold
Wall- or floor-attached
Ladder
182 20, 182 91, 114362, 280166, E06C 504, B63B 2920
Patent
active
051179407
ABSTRACT:
One end of a leg of a boat ladder is swivably and pivotably affixed to the side of a boat and the corresponding end of the other leg of the ladder is releasably latched or hooked to one of a pair of brackets located on the same side of the boat forward and aft of the affixed attachment. The ladder is stored in a vertically upright position with the second leg latched onto one of the pair of brackets. To be put to use the second leg first is unhooked from the bracket and swung outward in a generally horizontal arc of about 180 degrees until it reaches the other of the pair of brackets and is then latched or hooked onto the other of the pair of brackets and then the ladder is swung vertically outward and downward toward or into the water. Standoffs may be provided on each leg of the ladder to support the ladder against and away from the side of the boat or the "logs" or floats of a pontoon boat.
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patent: 4846303 (1989-07-01), Cooper
Garelick Mfg. Co.
Machado Reinaldo P.
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