Truck cab accessory step apparatus

• US 5,092,617 A
• Filed: 12/31/1990
• Issued: 03/03/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Harvey Jones Jr
• Original Assignee: Harvey Jones Jr
• Inventors: Jones, Harvey Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): KASHNIKOW, ANDRES
• Assistant Examiner(s): Gerich, Martin
• Application Number:
  US07/636,190
• Time in Patent Office: 428 Days
• Field of Search: 280/166, 280/164.1, 280/164.2, 280/163, 187/9 R, 182/84, 182/85, 182/90, 296/71
• US Class Current: 280/166
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 3/02 Retractable steps or ladders, e.g. movable under shock B60R3/005 takes precedence

Abstract

A truck cab accessory step includes a pneumatic cylinder mounted to a side wall of an associated truck cab, with a step orthogonally mounted to a lower end of a cylinder piston rod reciprocatably mounted within the cylinder. A manually manipulatable valve effects raising and lowering of the accessory step platform relative to the truck cab.

Claims

1. A truck cab accessory step apparatus comprising, in combination,

a truck cab, wherein the truck cab includes a planar side wall, with a door directed through the truck cab, the door positioned overlying a wheel well, and

a pneumatic auxiliary step mounted to the truck cab side wall rearwardly of the door, and

wherein the pneumatic auxiliary step includes a pneumatic cylinder, the pneumatic cylinder including a pneumatic piston rod reciprocatably mounted within the pneumatic cylinder, and conduit means to effect selective reciprocation of the piston rod relative to the cylinder, and a step platform including a step platform forward edge and a step platform rear edge, with the pneumatic cylinder orthogonally mounted to the step platform adjacent the step platform rear edge, and the door including a door rear edge, the pneumatic cylinder positioned generally parallel relative to the door rear edge, and

wherein the conduit means includes an upper pneumatic conduit directed to an upper terminal end of the pneumatic cylinder, and a lower pneumatic conduit directed into a lower terminal end of the pneumatic conduit, and the upper and lower pneumatic conduits operably associated to a pneumatic valve, and the pneumatic valve receiving a single pneumatic line thereto, and a valve switch arm mounted exteriorly of the pneumatic valve to effect directing of pneumatic pressure selectively to the upper pneumatic conduit and the lower pneumatic conduit, and

including a plate bore orthogonally directed through the step platform adjacent a platform forward edge, and the plate bore defined by a predetermined cylindrical configuration, and a support handle selectively mounted within the plate bore, and

wherein the support handle includes a handle projection defined by the predetermined cross-sectional configuration receivable within said cylindrical configuration of said plate bore mounted coaxially to a lower terminal end of the support handle, and the valve switch arm including a valve switch arm bore, the valve switch arm bore defined by said predetermined cross-sectional configuration to permit selective rotation of the valve switch arm upon positioning the handle projection within the valve switch arm bore.