Invalid's portable step unit and attached carrying handle member therefor

• US 3,884,327 A
• Filed: 05/09/1974
• Issued: 05/20/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/1974
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cary Wayne Zigman
• Original Assignee: Cary Wayne Zigman
• Inventors: Zigman, Cary Wayne
• Primary Examiner(s): Machado, Reinaldo P.
• Application Number:
  US05/468,402
• Time in Patent Office: 376 Days
• Field of Search: 182/106,113,129 403/108 297/478
• US Class Current: 182/113
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2003/001 on steps or stairways
• CPC Class Codes: E06C 1/39 Ladders having platforms; Ladders changeable into platforms platforms for use on ladders E06C7/16
• CPC Class Codes: E06C 7/081 Rungs or other treads comprising anti-slip features

Abstract

An invalid'"'"''"'"'s portable step unit and attached carrying handle member which is adapted for use by persons afflicted with an illness which makes it difficult or impossible for them to raise one or both legs sufficiently to climb into a bus. A carrying handle member, which may have the form of a cane, is attached to and projects upwardly from the portable step unit so that the complete unit may be carried like a walking cane when not otherwise in use.

Claims

1. An invalid'"'"''"'"'s portable step unit and carrying handle member therefor, comprising a. a step unit including 1. a supporting frame;

2. a horizontally extending platform unit carried by the said supporting frame at the top thereof;

b. a carrying handle member including 1. a lower end portion attached to and extending vertically upwardly from the said platform unit;

the said carrying handle member including 2. an upper end portion having a. a handle attached thereto;

c. the said carrying handle member including 1. outer and inner telescopically interconnected and vertically adjustable tubular members;

d. the said handle member being attached to one of the said telescopically interconnected tubular members;

e. manually operable latching means attached to and carrIed by one of said telescopically interconnected tubular members for releasably latching the said telescopically interconnected tubular members in a selected position vertically relative to each other;

f. the said platform unit having front and rear surfaces and side surfaces;

g. the said carrying handle member being attached to the said platform unit adjacent the said rear surface thereof and centrally between the said side surfaces of said platform unit; and

h. the said carrying handle member including a handle which is disposed generally parallel to and in coplanar relationship with the said rear surface of the said platform unit.

2. an upper end portion having a. a handle attached thereto;

c. the said carrying handle member including