Patent ID: 7962987

Claim:
A portable ramp comprising: a pair of ramps, each ramp extending in a longitudinal direction and including a sloping contact surface on a top side, a planar contact surface on a bottom side, and two opposing and substantially parallel ends of different height extending between the sloping contact surface and the planar contact surface; and a flexible tether having an adjustable length “L” in communication with and located between the pair of ramps and arranged perpendicular to a central longitudinal axis of each ramp; the sloping contact surface having a constant slope and spanning the distance between the two opposing and substantially parallel ends, the constant slope selected to allow a piece of wheeled lawn equipment having front and rear wheels to move between a first lower elevation and a second higher elevation without front wheels becoming airborne as the piece of wheeled lawn equipment traverses the pair of ramps in a forward direction the pair of ramps moving between a stowed position on the piece of wheeled lawn equipment to a deployed position off of the piece of wheeled lawn equipment, the flexible tether being a means to maintain the pair of ramps in the stowed position and deploy the pair of ramps from the piece of wheeled lawn equipment and place the pair of ramps at a correct distance for receiving the front wheels.