Patent ID: 7204501

Claim:
A stowable step for use with a vehicle, having a trailer hitch receptacle, comprising: a horizontally adjustable securement means selectively received in the trailer hitch receptacle; a vertical sleeve means secured to and extending upwardly from the securement means, said sleeve means being vertically adjustable; control means co-axial with the sleeve means, telescopically and rotatably received within said sleeve means, said control means terminating at its lower end in a step means movable, while in a substantially constant horizontal plane, in conjunction with said control means, from a stowed position beneath the vehicle to a utility position extending outwardly from the vehicle, and at its upper end a control handle which allows single handed operation, including unlatching the control means allowing rotation thereof and rotating the control means and its attached step from the stowed to the utility position; and means to latch the step in its stowed and in its latched position.