Patent ID: 7596826
Filing Date: 2009-10-06
Classification: B64F

Abstract:
1. A cabin for a passenger bridge for the enplaning and deplaning of passengers, which passenger bridge has the form of a tunnel and is equipped with the cabin at its outer free end, and which passenger bridge can be maneuvered relative to the ground and relative to the airplane such that the cabin can be docked to an airplane at a door of the airplane, said cabin comprising: a cabin frame including a roof, side walls, a two-portion floor, and an opening at a cabin free end, wherein the floor of the cabin includes an inner floor portion that is fixed in position relative to the cabin frame and an outer floor portion that is movable relative to the inner floor portion and at least partially overlaps the inner floor portion, wherein the outer floor portion has a unitary front edge that is displaced as an entirety relative to other parts of the cabin by a first force-exerting means in an outward direction relative to the cabin opening and from a rest position within the cabin, wherein the inner and outer floor portions are tiltable relative to the cabin frame by a second force-exerting means upwards and downwards around a pivot joint at an inner rear edge of the inner floor portion and located inward of the cabin opening, and wherein the first and second force-exerting means deliver a maximum force that is less than a force with which an aircraft fuselage is damaged by impact of the outer floor portion with the aircraft fuselage.