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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 1990
Filed:
Nov. 21, 1988
Michael J Kitson, Lymington Meadows, Lymington, Hampshire, S041 9FJ, GB;
David Williams, Lymington Meadows, Lymington, Hampshire, S041 9FJ, GB;
Other;
Abstract
A safety arrangement for stairs comprises a length of rail secured to a wall parallel to the stairs and a handle which is slidable along the rail if force is applied to the handle in a direction parallel to the longitudinal extent of the rail but is jammed with respect to the rail if force is applied in any other direction. Preferably the handle is a loop formed by rubber covered reinforcement and the handle is a loop formed by rubber covered reinforcement and the handle has a neck portion leading to a head portion, the neck portion extending through a slot into a box section of the rail which contains the head portion.