摘要:
A stairway (1) comprising a plurality of steps (2) each defining a top surface or tread (3) is converted into a lift platform by employing a mechanism concealed beneath an envelope defined by the treads of all of the steps to guide each step of the plurality vertically from a stairway configuration in which the steps form a stairway enabling access from a lower (7) level to an upper level (8) to a flat configuration in which the top edge of each step is substantially in a horizontal plane level with one of the lower and upper levels from which a wheelchair user may wish to travel to the other of the lower and upper levels. As a result, a wheelchair user may move horizontally from the said one of the lower and upper levels on to a platform defined by the top edges of the plurality of steps in the flat configuration. The stairway and flat configurations occupy the same footprint.
摘要:
A combined stairway and lift installation has a stairway (13) which comprises a stack of horizontally movable step members (14 to 16) whereby the stairway (13) is retractable to expose a lift (18) which is installed in a cavity (19) which is covered by the stairway (13) when the latter is extended. Uncovering of the lift (18) allows it to be operated to raise its load carrying platform to the level of the top of the stairway (13). A chain (63) is anchored by either end (64, 65) in the bottom step member (14). The chain (63) is led from the anchorage up through the step members (14 to 17), alternately clockwise and counter clockwise around guide rollers (43, 49) mounted in each of the movable step members (14 to 16), clockwise around a guide roller (34) and a motor-driven cog wheel (32) in the top step member (17), and back down through the movable step members (14 to 16) to the other anchorage (64) again alternately clockwise and counter clockwise around further guide rollers (44, 48) mounted in each of the movable step members (14 to 16). The motor is reversible so that in one sense it drives the movable step members (14 to 16) to form the stairway (13) and in the other sense it drives them to their retracted position.
摘要:
A combined stairway and lift installation has a stairway (13) which comprises a stack of horizontally movable step members (14 to 16) whereby the stairway (13) is retractable to expose a lift (18) which is installed in a cavity (19) which is covered by the stairway (13) when the latter is extended. Uncovering of the lift (18) allows it to be operated to raise its load carrying platform to the level of the top of the stairway (13). A chain (63) is anchored by either end (64, 65) in the bottom step member (14). The chain (63) is led from the anchorage up through the step members (14 to 17), alternately clockwise and counter clockwise around guide rollers (43, 49) mounted in each of the movable step members (14 to 16), clockwise around a guide roller (34) and a motor-driven cog wheel (32) in the top step member (17), and back down through the movable step members (14 to 16) to the other anchorage (64) again alternately clockwise and counter clockwise around further guide rollers (44, 48) mounted in each of the movable step members (14 to 16). The motor is reversible so that in one sense it drives the movable step members (14 to 16) to form the stairway (13) and in the other sense it drives them to their retracted position.