PORTABLE FOLDING STEPS AND LANDING FOR A MOBILE HOME AND THE LIKE

• US 3,693,754 A
• Filed: 03/16/1971
• Issued: 09/26/1972
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Le Roy O. Butler
• Original Assignee: Le Roy O. Butler
• Inventors: Butler, Le Roy O.
• Primary Examiner(s): Machado, Reinaldo P.
• Application Number:
  US05/124,704
• Time in Patent Office: 560 Days
• Field of Search: 182/85,83,86,115,113,95,96,152
• US Class Current: 182/86
• CPC Class Codes: E04F 11/062 folding

Abstract

A rectangular platform is removable secured horizontally by one side to one side wall of a mobile home below the lower limit of its door. A pair of telescoping legs are pivotally connected in depending relation to the opposite side of the platform in underthe-platform folding relation. A pair of steps are similarly connected with and supported by pairs of bars pivotally connected with the platform in a downwardly and outwardly projecting direction. Hand rails are supported by upstanding supports pivotally connected with marginal side edges of the platform. The hand rail supports, legs and pairs of step supporting bars are foldable towards the respective upper and lower surfaces of the platform for collapsing and rendering the device portable.

Claims

1. A collapsible step and landing device for a mobile home or the like, comprising:

a platform including a rectangular frame having a flat upper surface;

hanger means secured to one side surface of said frame for connection with a vertical supporting surface;

hand rail means secured to said frame permitting movement of said hand rails toward and away from the upper surface of said frame, said hand rail means comprising a pair of sleeves vertically secured, respectively, to the other side surfaces of said frame in horizontally spaced-apart relation, a pair of upright support members pivotally connected, respectively, at their depending end portions, with said sleeves and removably received thereby in telescoping relation, and, a hand rail extending between and secured to the upper end of each said pair of support members;

legs pivotally secured in depending relation to said frame opposite said hanger means; and

, step means pivotally secured to said frame in downwardly and laterally projecting relation with respect to one side thereof.

2. The collapsible step device according to claim 1 in which said step means comprises:

at least one pair of parallel spaced-apart bars; and

, at least one step tread extending horizontally between and supported by said bars.

3. The collapsible step device according to claim 2 in which said hanger means comprises:

a pair of L-shaped brackets having apertured leg portions, one said apertured leg portion of each bracket being horizontally disposed; and

, a pair of rods secured to said one side of said frame and depending vertically beyond the lower limit thereof for removable reception by the apertures in said horizontally disposed bracket leg portions.

4. The collapsible step device according to claim 3 and further including:

means connected with the depending end portions of said legs and said pair of bars, respectively, for vertically adjusting the spacing between the depending end of said legs and said bars relative to a common horizontal supporting surface.