Transit bus wheelchair lift
CA 1195956 A · Owner: Environmental Equipment Corporation · Inventors: Abbott, John D.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
Inventor: John D. Abbott ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE, The steps and risers or the entry stairs of a transit bus are arranged to rise and extend in a cantilevered configuration to become a single platform that can support a wheelchair and be raised to the bus floor level and lowered to ground level then, arranged to reform into steps and risers to again define a stair.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Granted October 29, 1985. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended October 29, 2002.
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