Patent ID: 6763637
Filing Date: 2004-07-20
Classification: A61G,E04F,Y10T

Abstract:
A transition support for extending over a low area of a floor and for extending under a flooring material where the floor has a high area at a relatively high height adjacent to the low area at a relatively low height, with a juncture between the high area and the low area, and a difference in the heights between the high area and the low area of the floor said transition support comprising an elongate wedge and a contiguous solid flat platform side wedge and said platform being in sheet form;said wedge having a top surface and a bottom surface, and said wedge further including: a relatively thick end having a thickness between the top surface and the bottom surface, the thickness being generally equal to said difference in the heights between the high area of the floor and the low area of the floor, said thick end being placeable at the juncture adjacent the high area of the floor; a relatively thin end opposite said thick end and parallel to said thick end, said thin end being placeable on the low area of the floor remote from the high area of the floor and the juncture; and a tapering section forming the top surface of said wedge, said tapering section being support surface means for being covered with the flooring material, said wedge being means for rendering the junction generally unnoticeable to persons walking across the flooring material on said tapering section and for generally preventing the jostling of wheeled vehicles crossing the flooring material on said tapering section; and said contiguous flat platform including: a flat extension of the thick end of said wedge, said flat section having the same thickness as the thickness of the thick end of said wedge; said elongate wedge and said contiguous flat platform forming means for supporting persons and wheeled vehicles crossing said transition support.