Patent ID: 9187186
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: B63B,B64F,E01F

Abstract:
1. A reduced dimensions platform for the landing of an aircraft on an access facility comprising: a support base, suitable to be fixed on a reference surface belonging to said access facility; a landing footboard, connected with said support base and suitable to receive said aircraft, wherein said landing footboard includes a central body, coupled with said support base, and a plurality of peripheral panels, operatively connected with drive means suitable to move said peripheral panels from or to a rest position, in which said peripheral panels are contained within the dimensions of said central body, to or from an operating position, in which said peripheral panels laterally project from said central body and are combined and side-by-side each other so as to be coplanar with each other and said central body and make said landing footboard ready to receive said aircraft; said support base including: a basic framework suitable to insist on said reference surface of said access facility; a net frame, superiorly coupled with said basic framework and composed of an inner part, which defines a substantially horizontal plane and supports said central body, and a perimetric wall orthogonally projecting from said inner part in order to laterally delimit said central body; wherein each of said peripheral panels is revolvingly coupled with said perimetric wall of said net frame through rotation means suitable to cooperate with said drive means in order to position said peripheral panels: superiorly to said central body in said rest position, so that the free edge of a first peripheral panel is facing for a front section the free edge of a second peripheral panel directly opposite to and spaced apart from said first panel; laterally to said perimetric wall of said net frame in said operating position, so that said free edge of said peripheral panels is facing outwardly and the outer surface of said peripheral panels is coplanar with the outer wall of said central body; wherein in said operating position, the peripheral panels create an annular structure which surrounds said central body in order to place the landing footboard, in a final operating condition, suitable for the landing of the aircraft.