Safety ladder warning device

• US 20130140111A1
• Filed: 12/01/2011
• Published: 06/06/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Desai, Kishor Chandra
• Original Assignee: Desai, Kishor Chandra
• Inventors: Desai, Kishor Chandra
• Application Number:
  US13/373,813
• Publication Number:
  US 20130140111A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 182/129
• CPC Class Codes: E06C 7/003 Indicating devices, e.g. user warnings or inclinators

Abstract

The present invention relates to the user warning device embedded in a step ladder that is suited for craftsmen or workmen or for the ladders used in homes to change a bulb or climbing in the attic and the same technology could be adopted in the extension ladders as well. However, it is not about how safe the ladder is, but it is about embedded “Safety Feature” within the “Safety Ladder” and how it warns the user and prevents the accidents that occur, due to human factor in using these “So Called Safety Ladders”. The warnings are both audio and visual.

Claims

1. ) A safety warning device embedded in the ladder itself that is a visual device.

2. ) A visual warning device as claimed in (1) and is LED or other suitable light, that lights up the number that corresponds with the number of step climbed in ascending order, when the person is climbing up the ladder.

3. ) A visual warning device as claimed in (1) and is LED or other suitable light, that lights up the number that corresponds with the number of step while the person is coming down the ladder in a descending order.

4. ) An audio warning device that is counting the number of step in ascending order, when the user is climbing up the ladder.

5. ) An audio warning device as claimed in (4) that counts down and announces the step in a descending order when the person is coming down the ladder.

6. ) An audio warning device that warns the user, when he/she is on the upper-most step, that “

This is not a step”

.

7. ) An audio warning device as claimed in (6) that will also sound a buzzer, besides announcing “

This is not a step” and

warn the person of a potential fall.

8. ) An audio warning device that warns the user when he/she is climbing down and is on the last step by announcing that the next step will be the ground.

9. ) A two piece step or rung construction and a trigger and switch synchronization, to operate the warning system embedded in the ladder.