Walk-on platform arrangement

US6564904B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Duerr Systems AG · DE

Inventors

• Guenther Mueller · Flein, DE
• Guenter Walter · Heubach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 11, 2001
• Grant date: May 20, 2003
• Expiry date: Jul 7, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B05B16/40
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

In order to provide a walk-on platform arrangement, comprising at least one first sub-platform, which is movable from a rest position in a direction of extension into a working position, and a second sub-platform, which in the working position is disposed behind the first sub-platform, wherein a rear boundary edge of the first sub-platform and a front boundary edge of the second sub-platform in the rest position are spaced vertically apart from one another, with which platform arrangement the risk of accident for an operative walking on the platform arrangement in the working position is reduced, it is proposed that the platform arrangement comprises a guide system, by means of which the relative motion between the first sub-platform and the second sub-platform as the first sub-platform moves into the working position is guided in such a way that the vertical distance between the rear boundary edge of the first sub-platform and the front boundary edge of the second sub-platform in the working position is smaller than in the rest position.