Patent ID: 7641020

Claim:
A hand rail for a walkie/rider truck comprising a lifting and lowering load carrying means and a body having a front and a rear end and an upper side, a stand platform for an operator being located at the front end of the body, and a steering arm being linked to the upper side of the body, the conversely U-shaped hand rail having two approximately parallel spaced vertical legs attached to the upper side of the body while a grab bar interconnects the upper ends of the legs, a control housing being mounted to the grab bar substantially in the centre thereof, the control panel including control elements for the lifting and lowering of the load carrying means, a horn and a fast speed mode, the entire control housing being positioned on the lower side of the grab bar and the grab bar being shaped such that the grab bar can be seized by the hand of the operator from above in the area of the control housing in order to obtain a support for and/or to actuate a control element by the operator, further wherein the box-shaped control housing extends obliquely downwardly and forwardly and the grip bar above the control housing has a bead-shaped thickening which extends rearwardly and which can be undergripped by the fingers of the hand seizing the grab bar, and further wherein the bead-shaped thickening is of plastic material and shaped or moulded to a tube of the grab bar and is integrally formed with the control housing, and the control housing at the front side has a recess for the accommodation of a switch box which includes the control elements.