Patent ID: 7104895

Claim:
A ramp system comprising: a deck member having at least one leg; a curved rail attached to said deck member; and a curved ramp member hingeably connected to said curved rail to form a load bearing angular relationship with opening hinge movement limited in one direction with respect to said curved rail for supporting both lateral and gravitational force on said curved ramp member, a supporting relationship of said at least one leg, said deck member, said curved rail and said curved ramp member when said ramp system is deployed onto the ground and wherein said curved ramp member further comprises a plurality of sections extending serially away from said curved rail each said section having a first side and a second side and concave in at least one dimension in the direction of said first side, each one of said plurality of sections attached to the other of said plurality of sections at attachment points displaced from said first sides of said sections and wherein said plurality of sections are attached to each other using hinges.