Patent ID: 6772860
Filing Date: 2004-08-10
Classification: E04G

Abstract:
A mobile worker platform for servicing a helicopter of the type having a fuselage and a landing gear, comprising:first and second parallel laterally spaced horizontal beams extending fore and aft at the same elevation presenting front and rear ends, a floor having a front side, a rear side and laterally opposite sides, a first pair of vertical support columns between said first beam and said floor, said first pair of support columns being spaced from one another in a fore and aft direction, a second pair of vertical support columns between said second beam and said floor, said second pair of support columns being spaced from one another in a fore and aft direction, said floor having an overhand extending laterally beyond said support columns and beams in both lateral directions and said parallel beams extending forward a substantial distance from said support columns and said floor, a fore and aft extending inclined stairway rigidly connected at its lower front end to said front ends of said beams and having it upper rear end rigidly secured to the front side of said floor, said stairway being sufficiently narrow in lateral width to not extend laterally beyond said support columns, a first horizontal laterally extending outrigger rigidly secured in supporting relation to said rear ends of said beams and having opposite lateral ends positioned a substantial lateral distance from said beams and vertical columns, a second horizontal laterally extending outrigger rigidly secured in supporting relation to said front end of said stairway and having opposite lateral ends positioned a substantial lateral distance from said beams and stairway and a wheel on each of the laterally opposite ends of said outriggers, said wheels being positioned laterally at least as far as said overhang of the associated lateral side of said floor.