Advance Lifts, Inc.

David E Clarke

Lawrence I Richards

Extendable bridging bar frame members are pivotally mounted to an angularly adjustable loading platform level of a bi-elevational platform lift apparatus. The bridging bar frame members are selectively extendable to engage an associated dock side loading surface in order to suspend a free end non-attached portion of the loading platform at dock side level while the opposite end portion of the loading platform is adjusted for alignment with a vertically offset dock side. This will allow angular adjustment of the loading platform level while still utilizing the mechanical support of the bridging bar frame members.

Bridging bar attachment means for bi-elevational platform lift

A collapsible electric foot-toe guard is employed with a loading platform having electric controlled lift and descent movements, functioning as a safety device in the protection against unwitting protrusion of human limbs into the path of descent of the platform lift, said collapsible foot-toe guard being comprised of an outwardly depended contact plate moveably engaging a base support plate through hinge means to permit said contact plate with contact thereof to fold toward the base support plate, such folding movement effective to break a normally open, held closed electric limit switch circuit to arrest descent of the platform lift.

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Schaumburg, IL, United States of America

David E Clarke