Patent ID: 6425459
Filing Date: 2002-07-30
Classification: B66F,E04G

Abstract:
Aerial work platform apparatus comprising a vehicle;a work platform; a lift on the vehicle for elevating and lowering the work platform; a stabilizer for inhibiting tipping over of the apparatus when the work platform is elevated, mounted on the vehicle for movement between a raised retracted position and a lowered position for engagement with the surface traversed by the vehicle should the apparatus start tipping; a drawbar mounted on the vehicle for generally vertical reciprocation movable up on rise of the lift and down in response to lowering of the lift; and mechanism operable by the drawbar having a connection with the stabilizer for moving the stabilizer up to its raised retracted position on lowering the lift with accompanying downward movement of the drawbar and down to its lowered position on rise of the lift with accompanying upward movement of the drawbar.