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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2016
Gse Technologies, Llc, Houghton, MI (US);
Glen Raymond Simula, Hancock, MI (US);
Justin Sven LaCosse, Houghton, MI (US);
GSE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Houghton, MI (US);
Abstract
An access platform system for enabling access to and from ground-based structures, vehicles, and mobile equipment. The system has a main frame with walls that is attached to or juxtaposed with the ground-based structures, vehicles, and mobile equipment; a vertical platform displacement assembly attached to the main frame; and a folding steps assembly. The vertical displacement mechanism has left and right intermediate carriage assemblies, and left and right lift cylinders with a multi-stage apparatus for influencing the stroke of the lift cylinders. In one embodiment, the folding steps assembly has an electromechanical means for folding and unfolding the steps.