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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2005
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2000
Applicant:
David John Bowes Brown, Boltby, GB;
Inventor:
David John Bowes Brown, Boltby, GB;
Assignee:
Multidrive Limited, , GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60P 138 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A floor constituted by a flexible belt (), resting on the upper surface of a loadbearing base, has one end connected to a headboard () and the other end connected to a winch (). A cable () has one end connected to the headboard and the other end connected to the winch. A guide system for the cable including a compensating mechanism () which varies the path of the cable during rotation of the winch, so as to compensate for a difference between the belt diameter and the cable diameter on the winch, the difference varying as the belt is wound and unwound.